美語情景對話 第930期:Reasons for Riots 騷亂原因

Julia: So Todd we're talking about riots. Can you tell me about riots in America? You ever experienced any rioting?

朱莉婭：託德，我們之前談了騷亂。你能說說美國的騷亂事件嗎？你經歷過騷亂事件嗎？

Todd: There has been a little bit, like there's been riots from, you know, fans going crazy, you know.

託德：美國偶爾有騷亂髮生，比如因爲球迷非常瘋狂而引發的騷亂。

Julia: Oh yeah.

朱莉婭：哦，好。

Todd: After their team won the championship that's usually a problem. Cities sometimes have to be on high alert if their team wins a championship which is absolute idiocy. It's like "hey we won the championship, let's go turn over cars and, you know, burn things." It recently also happened in Canada.

託德：在他們喜歡的球隊獲得冠軍以後，通常會出現問題。如果他們的球隊贏得冠軍，可能城市都要保持高度戒備狀態，因爲球迷可能會做出愚蠢的行爲。比如，他們會說“嘿，我們贏得了冠軍，我們去把汽車掀翻，燒些東西。”最近加拿大也發生過這種事。

Julia: Yes, I remember, yeah.

朱莉婭：對，我記得。

Todd: It's happened in Detroit, it's happened in Dallas. I think the most famous riot we had was the LA riots but that was a long time ago, that was over twenty years ago. Now it's about social unrest.

託德：底特律發生過，達拉斯也發生過。我認爲美國最著名的暴亂是洛杉磯暴動，不過那是很長時間以前的事情了，大概是20多年前的事情。現在是社會動盪。

Julia: Yeah.

朱莉婭：對。

Todd: And social injustice for like inner city people but I was in Thailand right when they had their riots.

託德：對貧民區來說是社會不公平，泰國發生暴亂時我就在那裏。

Julia: The political riots.

朱莉婭：政治騷亂。

Todd: Yeah, so I actually left the day before they came down and occupied downtown and things got serious.

託德：對，在他們佔領市中心前一天，在形勢變嚴重前我離開了那裏。

Julia: Wow, and you wouldn't have been able to leave probably if that happened? Did they close the airports?

朱莉婭：哇哦，暴亂髮生時就不能離開了吧？他們有關閉機場嗎？

Todd: Oh no, I think the airport was still open yeah, yeah, but I did see them every day so I mean before that they would often ride, you know, the red shirts, would ride down and for people listening you had the red shirts who were against the government and they came and they occupied Bangkok and that was quite interesting. But to be honest, I never felt threatened but then again I'd left the day before anything happened so before things turned ugly.

託德：沒有，我想機場還是開放的，不過我的確每天都能看到那些人，就是那些穿着紅衫的人，他們一路遊行示威，我們要解釋一下，“紅衫軍”指的是那些反對政府的人，他們佔領了曼谷，這很有意思。說實話，我從未感覺害怕，而且我在發生情況以前、在事態變醜惡的前一天離開了那裏。

Julia: And were tourists targeted during those riots?

朱莉婭：這些暴亂有針對遊客嗎？

Todd: No, not at all. Actually it was weird being a foreigner at the time when all this was going on because you felt like you were at somebody's house when they had a family fight. You know, have you ever been at somebody's house and maybe the daughter gets in a fight with the mother and they get so heated in the argument they forget that you're even there? That's what it was like in Thailand at the time.

託德：沒有，完全沒有。其實作爲外國人來說，在事情發生時我覺得很奇怪，就好像你去別人家裏做客而那家人發生了爭吵。就好比你去別人家做客時，那家的女兒和媽媽吵了起來，她們吵得非常激烈，以至於她們忘了你還在他們家裏。那就是我在泰國動亂髮生時的感受。

Julia: So you didn't feel under threat in any way?

朱莉婭：所以你並沒有受到威脅？

Todd: Oh no. And actually the red shirt people were trying to be careful not to hurt anybody. The government, the yellow shirt people, were trying to be helpful and not, make sure that no tourists were hurt. It was really an internal fight.

託德：沒有，實際上“紅衫軍”會盡量很小心，不去傷害任何人。而支持政府的“黃衫軍”也願意提供幫助，他們希望確保沒有遊客受到傷害。這是內部鬥爭。

Julia: A domestic issue?

朱莉婭：這是國內問題？

Todd: It was a domestic issue and it was quite interesting how both sides took so much care to make sure that no outsiders were harmed even though eventually it turned really violent for each other. So a family squabble you might say.

託德：是國內問題，非常有意思的是，雙方都非常小心謹慎，目的是確保外人不會受傷，雖然最後演變成了暴力事件。可以說這是家庭爭吵。

Julia: Hmm.

朱莉婭：嗯。

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重點講解：
1. on alert 處於警戒狀態；保持戒備；
例句：Security forces were placed on alert.
治安警備力量進入了警戒狀態。
2. turn over (使)翻轉；(使)顛倒；(使)傾覆；
例句：Liz picked up the blue envelope and turned it over curiously.
莉茲拿起藍色信封，好奇地翻過來看。
3. to be honest 老實說；說實在的；
例句：To be honest, I have stopped reading papers for years now.
實話說，我已經好幾年不看報紙了。
4. under threat 受到威脅；
例句：The biologist believes that some animal species are under threat of extinction.
那位生物學家相信某些動物物種正受到滅絕的威脅。
5. even though 即使；儘管；縱然；
例句：I don't like spinach even though I know it's good for me.
我不喜歡吃菠菜，雖然我知道它對我有好處。