双语新闻：谷歌掌门人劝说朝鲜接受互联网

2013-01-16 00:00:00来源：新东方网

　　Google’s chairman Eric Schmidt has told North Korea that itsfailure to embrace the internet age will hold back economicgrowth.

　　谷歌执行董事长埃里克施密特(Eric Schmidt)向朝鲜表示，朝鲜未能融入互联网时代将妨碍经济增长。

　　Mr Schmidt said he had made his point “very, very clear” to hishosts in Pyongyang this week.

　　施密特表示，本周他“非常、非常明确地”向朝鲜东道主表达了自己的观点。

　　North Korea’s authoritarian government forbids nearly all its citizens from going online.

　　朝鲜的威权政府禁止几乎所有公民上网。

　　Mr Schmidt left yesterday after a four-day tour led by Bill Richardson, former governor of NewMexico, who tried, unsuccessfully, to lobby for the release of a US citizen detained in North Koreaon unspecified charges.

　　昨日施密特结束为期4天的行程，离开朝鲜。这次访问由墨西哥州前州长比尔理查森(BillRichardson)带队。理查森试图游说朝鲜释放该国拘留而罪名不明的一名美国公民，但未能成功。

　　Theirs was an unusual visit by a big US business figure to a country that has been the subject ofincreasingly strong sanctions from Washington over its apparent progress towards nuclearweapons capability.

　　由一位美国商界要人参与的这次访问不同寻常。朝鲜因其在发展核武方面的明显进展而受到美国日益严厉的制裁。

　　“As the world is becoming increasingly connected, their decision to be virtually isolated is verymuch going to affect their physical world,” Mr Schmidt told reporters at Beijing international airporton his return from Pyongyang.

　　施密特在回程途经北京国际机场时向记者表示：“在世界日益连接在一起之际，朝鲜却决定几乎与世隔绝，这将严重影响他们的现实世界。

　　“The government has to do something. It has to make it possible for the people to use theinternet.”

　　“朝鲜政府必须有所作为。它必须让人民能够使用互联网。”

　　Mr Richardson described the trip as productive, saying that he had lobbied for fair treatment forKenneth Bae, a Korean-American man detained in November and accused by Pyongyang of anunspecified crime against the state, and for a halt to North Korea’s nuclear development.

　　理查森称这次行程是有成效的，表示他游说朝鲜政府公平对待美籍韩国人肯尼思贝(KennethBae)。此人于去年11月被朝鲜政府拘留，被指控反政府，但具体罪名不明。理查森还表示，他劝说朝鲜停止发展核武。

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