おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
中国と、ロシアの話。
年内には色々落ち着くか…ひどくなるか。全く読めませんね。
tendency
意味 ＜…する＞ （特定の） 傾向, （個人の） 性癖; （一般的な） 風潮, 趨勢 ＜to do＞（しばしば良くない風潮を示す）
Russia and China have the tendency to learn the worst from each other: tyrants, famines, purges and, now, internet censorship.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/chinas-russia-information.html
似てるよね…似てきちゃうよね…。国としてはどちらも嫌いではないんだけど、生まれたくはない。
vestige
意味 (かたく) 跡, 形跡, 痕跡; （状態· 慣習などの） 名残, 面影; 残存物
By blocking online platforms, shutting down the last vestige of Russia’s independent media and making it a crime to refer to the fighting in Ukraine as a war, the Kremlin has made it nearly impossible for the Russian people to get independent or international news after its invasion. Most Russians are taking in an alternative reality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/chinas-russia-information.html
こういう事ができる国、そう多くはないから比べてしまうねえ。情報遮断・操作しないと人民の統制きかないもんな。
Mostly
意味 たいてい, 大部分は, 主に, 主として (mainly)
That’s exactly what China has been doing to its 1.4 billion people for years. Nearly all major Western websites are blocked in the country. A generation of Chinese have grown up in a very different information environment from the rest of the world. Mostly, they are left to believe in what Beijing tells them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/chinas-russia-information.html
恐ろしいことなんだけど外からはどうしようもないというね。
gulag
意味 [C] （旧ソ連の） 強制労働収容所.
Both the Russians and the Chinese were deeply scarred by disastrous eras under Communism, which produced tyrants like Stalin and Mao, gulags and labor camps, and man-made famines that starved millions to death.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/chinas-russia-information.html
judiciary
意味 司法の, 裁判の; 裁判官の; 裁判所の.
China has not always been as tightly controlled as it has become under its top leader, Xi Jinping. In the 1990s and 2000s, investigative journalists broke many stories that led to the downfalls of government officials and to judiciary reforms. The internet and social media made it possible for the public to exchange ideas, debate important topics and pressure the government to respond to their concerns.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/chinas-russia-information.html
2000年代まで、見逃したアニメとか中国サーバーで見てたなあ（本題とはずれまくるけどw）。
outlet
意味 放送局, 出版社
Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform, used to be the place to debate democracy and freedom. Now, the biggest influencers on Weibo are state-owned media outlets like the People’s Daily, the Global Times and China Central Television. Bilibili, a user-generated video site that used to be popular among young gamers and comic and anime fans, is now full of nationalistic young people known as little pinks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/chinas-russia-information.html
impose
意味 〈制限· 条件· 税· 罰金など〉を課する
In January, when the government of the northwestern city of Xi’an imposed a strict lockdown that created chaos and crises not seen since Wuhan two years ago, few news outlets sent journalists to cover it. The only significant reporting the Chinese public got was a first-person blog post written by a former investigative journalist known by her pen name, Jiang Xue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/chinas-russia-information.html
中国語勉強してたけど、コロナ拡大直前から中国内の個人ブログやPodcastがどんどん消えていったのがショックだった。言語や文化がどんなに好きでも、一晩で何もかも奪われる様を見るのはつらい。
sanitized
意味 [[名]の前で]衛生的な; 不快なものが取り除かれた.
China still wants to offer some Western entertainment content, but only in a sanitized format. In the sitcom “Friends,” Ross never explained to his parents that he had split from his wife because she was a lesbian living with another woman. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the Queen biopic, had no scenes involving homosexuality. The Chinese censors put a black dress on the heroine’s nude body in “The Shape of Water.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/business/chinas-russia-information.html
