2023考研英語閱讀臺灣爆發(fā)食品丑聞
Food scandals in Taiwan
臺灣爆發(fā)食品丑聞
Plastic unfantastic
塑化劑事件
Tainted products also poison the presidentschances of re-election
食品受到污染給總統(tǒng)爭取連任的前景蒙上陰影
TAIWANS biggest-ever food scare began whengovernment inspectors testing sports drinks andsoft drinks last month detected dangerous levels of industrial plasticisers. These are normallyused to make everything from shoes to hosepipes more flexible. Since then, the plasticisershave been found in a range of foods and drinks. The crisis has also gone firmly international asChina, Hong Kong, South Korea and the Philippines have withdrawn Taiwanese products fromsupermarket shelves. Taiwanese commentators are wondering how the government can live thescandal down.
上個月，臺灣政府負責食品檢驗的工作人員在一些運動飲料及軟飲料中檢測出了含量足以對人體產(chǎn)生危害的工業(yè)塑化劑成分，由此引發(fā)了臺灣最大的一次食品恐慌。通常情況下，塑化劑被廣泛應(yīng)用于鞋類、塑料軟管等產(chǎn)品中，可起到增加柔韌度的作用。事件發(fā)生后，又相繼在一系列食品和飲料中發(fā)現(xiàn)了塑化劑的身影。隨著中國，香港，韓國和菲律賓紛紛將臺灣產(chǎn)品從自己的超市中下架，這次危機毫無疑問已經(jīng)造成了國際性的影響。臺灣的評論家們都在琢磨政府將如何從這樁丑聞中脫身。
Some 900 products have been pulled from nearly 40,000 Taiwanese shops. Hospitals have beenflooded with worried parents seeking check-ups for their children. Diets have swiftly changed.Out have gone processed drinks and even ice cream.
約有900中商品已在臺灣近40000家店鋪中撤柜，醫(yī)院里也擠滿了憂心忡忡的來給孩子做檢查的父母。人們的飲食習慣頃刻間發(fā)生了改變，含添加劑的飲料，甚至是冰激凌都已在市面上消失。
The problems have been traced to two upstream suppliers of food additives, Yu Shen Chemicaland Pin Han Perfumery. Among other things, plasticisers were substituted for palm oil asclouding agents in drinks. One plasticiser, known as DEHP, is a possible carcinogen, andthought capable of wreaking havoc with childrens reproductive organs. The inspectorsdiscovered levels far in excess of the daily allowed intake. Insiders have told investigators thatproducts may have been doctored for decades.
引發(fā)這次塑化劑風波的源頭被鎖定在兩家食品添加劑上游供貨商身上：昱申化工和品漢香料。塑化劑用在飲料中可替代棕櫚油起到混濁劑的作用。一種可能致癌的叫做DEHP的塑化劑，被認為會對兒童的生殖器官產(chǎn)生嚴重損害。食品安全檢驗人員在被檢查的食品中發(fā)現(xiàn)了含量遠超過每日允許攝入量的該種塑化劑。有內(nèi)幕人士告訴調(diào)查人員，或許早在幾十年前就存在向食品中摻入有害添加劑的行為。
Any hopes that the scare might end quickly weredashed when contamination fears spread topharmaceuticals. Local pharmaceutical companieshave recalled a dozen licensed drugs, and on June11th GlaxoSmithKline, a multinational drug giant,was ordered to recall two antibiotics when traces ofplasticiser were foundthough, company andgovernment insist, at way below maximumrecommended levels.
關(guān)于產(chǎn)品受到污染的擔心已經(jīng)蔓延到了制藥業(yè)，指望著民眾的恐慌情緒能夠很快消失的想法一下子就被打消了。臺灣本土制藥企業(yè)已召回了十多種正規(guī)藥品，而在6月11日，跨國制藥業(yè)巨頭葛蘭素史克被勒令召回其生產(chǎn)的兩種檢測出含有塑化劑成分的抗生素藥物-盡管公司和政府均堅稱其中的塑化劑含量并未超過規(guī)定的上限水平。
Taiwans president, Ma Ying-jeou, describes government raids on shops and suppliers asTaiwans biggest-ever effort in fighting food contamination. Executives from the offendingcompanies have been arrested. Mr Ma himself, along with prime minister Wu Den-yih and otherministers, donned workmens helmets and fireproof jackets and ceremonially burnedcontaminated goods in Changhua county. Mr Ma described their operations as mopping upthe battlefield. Government officials in eight other counties also staged incinerations. It isanyones guess whether this propaganda show, worthy of Chinas Communists across theTaiwan Strait, instilled confidence.
臺灣總統(tǒng)馬英九將政府突擊檢查商店和供貨商的行動形容為臺灣在打擊有害食品方面最不遺余力的一次，相關(guān)涉案的公司高管已被逮捕。馬英九和行政院院長吳敦義及其他各部門首長頭戴安全帽，身披消防外衣，參加了在彰化縣舉行的受污染食品焚毀儀式。馬英九稱他們這一舉動是清理戰(zhàn)場。在其他八個縣，官員們也在當?shù)氐姆贇КF(xiàn)場亮相。大家都在猜想，臺灣政府這種絲毫不亞于海峽對面的共產(chǎn)黨的宣傳作秀手法是否會讓民眾重拾信心。
Taiwans once robust reputation as a reliable and safe exporter of food has been dented. MrMas own reputation for competence has also been damaged by his governments slow andmuddled response to the crisis. Mr Ma is seeking re-election early next year. At the least,argues Hsu Yung-ming at Taipeis Soochow University, the scandals may affect Mr Mas choiceof running mate. His favourite was assumed to have been Mr Wu. But with the prime ministernow a possible lightning rod for dissatisfaction over the tainted products, Mr Ma may have tothink again. Other potential candidates are hardly inspiring. But Mr Ma will be keen to distancehimself from any more cabinet embarrassments.
臺灣作為安全可靠的食品出口商曾經(jīng)有著非常好的口碑，但現(xiàn)在它的聲譽已經(jīng)大打折扣。以能力出色被人稱道的馬英九也因為其領(lǐng)導的政府應(yīng)對此次危機時行動遲緩、毫無章法而聲望受損。馬英九正在謀求在明年年初的選舉中獲得連任的資格。臺北東吳大學的徐永明認為，食品丑聞至少會影響馬英九對競選搭檔的選擇。本來他最中意的人選被認為是吳敦義，但這位行政院院長目前極有可能成為不滿食品污染事件的公眾的出氣筒，所以馬英九不得不重新考慮自己的選擇，不過其他可能的人選又實在拿不出手。無論怎樣，馬英九將竭力讓自己遠離任何可能出現(xiàn)的牽涉到內(nèi)閣的丑聞。
Food scandals in Taiwan
臺灣爆發(fā)食品丑聞
Plastic unfantastic
塑化劑事件
Tainted products also poison the presidentschances of re-election
食品受到污染給總統(tǒng)爭取連任的前景蒙上陰影
TAIWANS biggest-ever food scare began whengovernment inspectors testing sports drinks andsoft drinks last month detected dangerous levels of industrial plasticisers. These are normallyused to make everything from shoes to hosepipes more flexible. Since then, the plasticisershave been found in a range of foods and drinks. The crisis has also gone firmly international asChina, Hong Kong, South Korea and the Philippines have withdrawn Taiwanese products fromsupermarket shelves. Taiwanese commentators are wondering how the government can live thescandal down.
上個月，臺灣政府負責食品檢驗的工作人員在一些運動飲料及軟飲料中檢測出了含量足以對人體產(chǎn)生危害的工業(yè)塑化劑成分，由此引發(fā)了臺灣最大的一次食品恐慌。通常情況下，塑化劑被廣泛應(yīng)用于鞋類、塑料軟管等產(chǎn)品中，可起到增加柔韌度的作用。事件發(fā)生后，又相繼在一系列食品和飲料中發(fā)現(xiàn)了塑化劑的身影。隨著中國，香港，韓國和菲律賓紛紛將臺灣產(chǎn)品從自己的超市中下架，這次危機毫無疑問已經(jīng)造成了國際性的影響。臺灣的評論家們都在琢磨政府將如何從這樁丑聞中脫身。
Some 900 products have been pulled from nearly 40,000 Taiwanese shops. Hospitals have beenflooded with worried parents seeking check-ups for their children. Diets have swiftly changed.Out have gone processed drinks and even ice cream.
約有900中商品已在臺灣近40000家店鋪中撤柜，醫(yī)院里也擠滿了憂心忡忡的來給孩子做檢查的父母。人們的飲食習慣頃刻間發(fā)生了改變，含添加劑的飲料，甚至是冰激凌都已在市面上消失。
The problems have been traced to two upstream suppliers of food additives, Yu Shen Chemicaland Pin Han Perfumery. Among other things, plasticisers were substituted for palm oil asclouding agents in drinks. One plasticiser, known as DEHP, is a possible carcinogen, andthought capable of wreaking havoc with childrens reproductive organs. The inspectorsdiscovered levels far in excess of the daily allowed intake. Insiders have told investigators thatproducts may have been doctored for decades.
引發(fā)這次塑化劑風波的源頭被鎖定在兩家食品添加劑上游供貨商身上：昱申化工和品漢香料。塑化劑用在飲料中可替代棕櫚油起到混濁劑的作用。一種可能致癌的叫做DEHP的塑化劑，被認為會對兒童的生殖器官產(chǎn)生嚴重損害。食品安全檢驗人員在被檢查的食品中發(fā)現(xiàn)了含量遠超過每日允許攝入量的該種塑化劑。有內(nèi)幕人士告訴調(diào)查人員，或許早在幾十年前就存在向食品中摻入有害添加劑的行為。
Any hopes that the scare might end quickly weredashed when contamination fears spread topharmaceuticals. Local pharmaceutical companieshave recalled a dozen licensed drugs, and on June11th GlaxoSmithKline, a multinational drug giant,was ordered to recall two antibiotics when traces ofplasticiser were foundthough, company andgovernment insist, at way below maximumrecommended levels.
關(guān)于產(chǎn)品受到污染的擔心已經(jīng)蔓延到了制藥業(yè)，指望著民眾的恐慌情緒能夠很快消失的想法一下子就被打消了。臺灣本土制藥企業(yè)已召回了十多種正規(guī)藥品，而在6月11日，跨國制藥業(yè)巨頭葛蘭素史克被勒令召回其生產(chǎn)的兩種檢測出含有塑化劑成分的抗生素藥物-盡管公司和政府均堅稱其中的塑化劑含量并未超過規(guī)定的上限水平。
Taiwans president, Ma Ying-jeou, describes government raids on shops and suppliers asTaiwans biggest-ever effort in fighting food contamination. Executives from the offendingcompanies have been arrested. Mr Ma himself, along with prime minister Wu Den-yih and otherministers, donned workmens helmets and fireproof jackets and ceremonially burnedcontaminated goods in Changhua county. Mr Ma described their operations as mopping upthe battlefield. Government officials in eight other counties also staged incinerations. It isanyones guess whether this propaganda show, worthy of Chinas Communists across theTaiwan Strait, instilled confidence.
臺灣總統(tǒng)馬英九將政府突擊檢查商店和供貨商的行動形容為臺灣在打擊有害食品方面最不遺余力的一次，相關(guān)涉案的公司高管已被逮捕。馬英九和行政院院長吳敦義及其他各部門首長頭戴安全帽，身披消防外衣，參加了在彰化縣舉行的受污染食品焚毀儀式。馬英九稱他們這一舉動是清理戰(zhàn)場。在其他八個縣，官員們也在當?shù)氐姆贇КF(xiàn)場亮相。大家都在猜想，臺灣政府這種絲毫不亞于海峽對面的共產(chǎn)黨的宣傳作秀手法是否會讓民眾重拾信心。
Taiwans once robust reputation as a reliable and safe exporter of food has been dented. MrMas own reputation for competence has also been damaged by his governments slow andmuddled response to the crisis. Mr Ma is seeking re-election early next year. At the least,argues Hsu Yung-ming at Taipeis Soochow University, the scandals may affect Mr Mas choiceof running mate. His favourite was assumed to have been Mr Wu. But with the prime ministernow a possible lightning rod for dissatisfaction over the tainted products, Mr Ma may have tothink again. Other potential candidates are hardly inspiring. But Mr Ma will be keen to distancehimself from any more cabinet embarrassments.
臺灣作為安全可靠的食品出口商曾經(jīng)有著非常好的口碑，但現(xiàn)在它的聲譽已經(jīng)大打折扣。以能力出色被人稱道的馬英九也因為其領(lǐng)導的政府應(yīng)對此次危機時行動遲緩、毫無章法而聲望受損。馬英九正在謀求在明年年初的選舉中獲得連任的資格。臺北東吳大學的徐永明認為，食品丑聞至少會影響馬英九對競選搭檔的選擇。本來他最中意的人選被認為是吳敦義，但這位行政院院長目前極有可能成為不滿食品污染事件的公眾的出氣筒，所以馬英九不得不重新考慮自己的選擇，不過其他可能的人選又實在拿不出手。無論怎樣，馬英九將竭力讓自己遠離任何可能出現(xiàn)的牽涉到內(nèi)閣的丑聞。
