【看新闻学英语】台湾庆祝建国99年

【新唐人2010年10月14日讯】【看新闻学英语】

Taiwan Celebrates 99 Years Since Republic’s Founding
台湾庆祝建国99年

By David Lee

【新闻关键字】

1. anniversary n. 周年
2. commitment: n. 投入
3. guarantee: v. 保证
4. mutual trust: n. 互信
5. discourse: n. 论述
6. civil war: n. 内战
7. uprising: n. 起义

On Sunday Taiwan celebrated the 99th anniversary of its founding.
周日，台湾庆祝建国99周年。

President Ma Ying-jeou gave his National Day address, urging China to remove missiles pointing at the island, and reaffirming his commitment to improving ties with Beijing.
马英九总统发表国庆演说，敦促中国移除指向台湾的飞弹，并重申致力于改进与北京的关系。

Ma Ying-jeou reassured the nation that despite closer cooperation with communist China, his government is taking careful measures to guarantee the country’s independence.
马英九再次向全国保证：虽然与共产中国密切合作，马政府会采取谨慎小心的措施，以保证国家的独立。

Taiwan is also known as The Republic of China.
台湾也是以中华民国知名。

[Ma Ying-jeou, President of Taiwan]:
“We will continue to strengthen the cross-strait exchange in economy, culture and society and thus continue to build up mutual trust, always aiming at the easing of tensions in the Taiwan Strait. Today it is still impossible for China and Taiwan to mutually recognize the other on a legal basis. But it is also necessary not to deny the other’s existence to make a fruitful discourse possible.”
马总统说：“我们将会在经济、文化、社会方面持续加强两岸交流，继续建立互信，目标在于疏缓台湾海峡的紧张。今天，中国与台湾仍然不可能在法律基础上互相承认，但不要否认另一方的存在也是必要的，才能使创造丰硕的论述成为可能。

Beijing has regarded Taiwan as its own territory since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.
北京自从1949年中国内战结束后，就一直视台湾为自己的领土。

The Republic of China was officially established on January 1, 1912, but the national day was set to October 10, to commemorate the date of the Wuchang uprising of 1911, which led to the end of China’s last dynasty, the Qing.
中华民国于1912年1月1日正式建立，但国庆日订在10月10日，以纪念1911年的武昌起义，结束中国最后一个王朝─清朝。

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