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🖐🏽 五分鐘來關心國際時事— 美國奧勒岡大火 🇺🇸

📰 West Coast Fires Fueled by Winds as Dangers Continue
Blazes tear through small towns; ‘It looks like a bomb went off’

📌 這篇文章關於美國西岸 (West Coast)大火，這些大火是被風激起的 (fueled by winds)，危險持續存在 (dangers continue)。blaze (烈火) 是fire的同義詞。

TALENT, Ore.—Residents and officials have begun surveying the vast destruction in Oregon’s small towns while gusty winds and low humidity continue to propel wildfires that have burned millions of acres and displaced thousands of people across the Western U.S.
Conditions remain dire, and a top Oregon official said Tuesday that control of the conflagrations—two of which have been burning since mid-August—could still be weeks away.

📌 這兩段說明居民 (residents) 和官員 (officials) 已經開始調查(survey) 美國 Oregon 的小鎮 (small towns) 廣泛破壞 (vast destruction)。大風 (gusty winds) 和 低潮濕 (low humidity) 繼續推動(propel) 野火wildfires）。displace是常見的動詞。當地一位高級官員說還要幾個星期才可以控制大火災O (conflagrations)。

At least 34 people have been killed so far in the wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington state, part of a wider outbreak that has scorched more than 4.7 million acres in 11 states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. In California alone, an area larger than the state of Connecticut has been burned this summer.
The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning early Tuesday for parts of Northern California and Oregon, indicating extreme fire conditions exacerbated by wind and drier air.

📌 這兩段告訴讀者，在美國三個州的野火，到目前為止，至少奪走34條人命。這些野火是更大的爆發 (wider outbreak)，影響了美國11個州。國家氣象局 (the National Weather Service) 發出紅旗警告 (Red Flag Warning)，表示極端大火狀況 (extreme fire conditions)，會因為風和乾燥的空氣 (drier air) 而惡化 (exacerbate)。

On Tuesday, Sandra Spelliscy, Talent’s city manager, toured the streets, passing by whole neighborhoods and commercial areas that were destroyed last week. “Half of Talent is gone,” she said.
About 700 homes and businesses were leveled in the city of 6,400 people, and officials estimate that as many as 20% of them are now without a place to live. Ms. Spelliscy and her staff are still tallying up the financial losses. “I cannot even begin to wrap my head around what it’s going to take for the city to get through this, to recover financially,” she said.

📌 這兩段報導城市經理 (city manager) (即負責管理城市的官員) 參觀街道，經過上周被破壞的鄰近地區 (neighborhoods) 和商業區(commercial areas)。市内約7000個家 (homes) 和事業(businesses)被夷平 (leveled)，其中20%無家可歸 (without a place to live)。tally up (計算)、financial losses (財務損失) 和 wrap one’s head around something (明白某東西)是道地用語。

A day earlier, Michael “TonTon” Antonopoulos surveyed the twisted metal, charred beams and piles of ash that were the remains of TonTon’s Artisan Affections, his cafe known for its vegan Mediterranean food and lively parties.

“It looks like a bomb went off,” the 50-year-old Mr. Antonopoulos said.
The cafe was wiped out along with hundreds of other businesses in Talent and neighboring Phoenix by last week’s fast-moving Almeda Drive Fire, which also killed four people. A downtown stretch where TonTon’s once stood along with several other shops is now a smoky ruin. The bookstore, the antique store and another building that Mr. Antonopoulos was turning into an event space are all gone.

📌 這三段引述一家咖啡店 (cafe) 老闆一天前視察 (survey) 店的殘餘(remains)。他說破壞像炸彈爆發 (a bomb goes off)。wipe out (徹底摧毀)也是常見的片語。

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The Statue Debate 美國拆除雕像事件

最近的黑人權利抗議已經延燒到拆除雕像上，本週美國大小事，跟你細數美國近年的拆除雕像事件。進入文章前，先來看看相關的單字～

1. Confederate「南方邦聯（的）」：指美國南北戰爭時期代表南方的南方邦聯政府。
2. monument「紀念碑」
3. honor「表彰」
4. slavery「奴隸制」：slave指「奴隸」。
5. relic「遺跡」
6. take down「拆除」：相似的動詞片語還有tear down, poll down。
7. Founding Father「美國開國元勳」：指對美國建國有重大意義的偉大人物，具體來說，就是簽署美國獨立宣言和美國憲法的政府領導人以及參與美國革命的領袖。
8. contribution「貢獻」

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing movement in the U.S. to remove monuments to Confederate soldiers and politicians from public places. Those who support removal believe that statues honoring Confederate figures, who fought against their own country to preserve slavery, shouldn’t be allowed to stand. Those who are against removal say that historic relics, even those that are symbols of a dark period in the country’s history, should remain as a reminder to future generations.
過去幾十年來，美國掀起了拆除南方邦聯軍人及政治人物雕像的運動，拆除雕像的運動也越演越烈。支持拆除的民眾認為，南方邦聯為了保留蓄奴制度而跟自己國家對抗，因此表彰南方邦的雕像不應該保存。反對拆除雕像的人則認為，這些具歷史意義的遺跡即使代表某個黑暗歷史，也應該保留下來，讓後世作為警惕。

The pace of statue removal began to increase around 2009, and reached a peak in 2017, when a total of 36 were taken down. That year, the mayors of both New Orleans and Baltimore had all of the Confederate statues in their cities removed. And since the police killing of George Floyd in May, 2020, a new wave of removals has begun.
拆除雕像活動大約在2009年開始增加，並在2017年達到高峰，那一年有36座雕像遭到拆除，而紐奧良與巴爾的摩市長雙雙將自家城市裡的南方邦聯雕像全數拆除。2020年5月發生警察殺死佛洛依德事件之後，新一波的拆除雕像活動又開始了。

Some of these actions have been legal. A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was removed from the Kentucky State Capitol on June 13, and a statue of slave-owning politician John C. Calhoun was taken away from a public square in Charleston, South Carolina on June 24.
有些拆除行動是合法的。如位於肯塔基州議會大廈的南方邦聯總統傑佛遜紀念雕像，便在6月13日拆除，又或是站立在南卡羅萊納州查爾斯頓市公共廣場上的蓄奴政客凱爾宏的雕像，也在6月24日拆除。

But in other cases, protestors have taken matters into their own hands. Protestors tore down a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in front of a high school in Montgomery, Alabama on June 1, toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia on June 10, and removed two statues from the North Carolina Confederate Monument in Raleigh on June 19.
不過，其他可就是由抗議者自己動手解決了。6月1日，阿拉巴馬州蒙哥馬利市一所高中前的南方邦聯將軍李羅伯特雕像遭到抗議者拆毀；6月10日，維吉尼亞州里奇蒙市的傑佛遜總統雕像遭推倒；6月19日，北卡羅納州羅利市南方邦聯紀念碑的兩座雕像也遭拆毀。

But protestors haven’t stopped at the removal of Confederate statues. On June 14, a group of demonstrators pulled down a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of a high school in Portland, Oregon. And several days later, in another part of Portland, a crowd gathered around a statue of George Washington, lit an American flag on his head, and then pulled it down with a rope.
不過，這些反對者沒有把拆除目標局限在南方邦聯雕像。6月14日，一群抗議者將奧勒岡州波特蘭一所中學前的湯瑪斯傑佛遜總統雕像拆毀。幾天之後，群眾聚集在波特蘭另一處的華盛頓總統雕像前，將一面美國國旗放在雕像頭上並點火，接著用繩子將雕像拉倒。

Why would anyone want to tear down statues of these two Founding Fathers? Despite their many contributions to America’s founding, they both owned hundreds of slaves during their lifetime, although Washington did free his slaves in his will. Should statues of historic figures like Washington and Jefferson remain because of their positive achievements, or should they be removed because they owned slaves? This is a debate with no easy answers.
為什麼會有人想毀壞這兩位開國元勳的雕像呢？雖然他們對建立美國有許多貢獻，但他們兩人在世時皆擁有數百名奴隸，儘管華盛頓在遺囑上寫了釋放他的奴隸。華盛頓和傑佛遜這類歷史人物的雕像該因為正面貢獻保留，還是該因為他們蓄奴而拆除？這項爭論恐怕沒有簡單的結論。

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