纽约时报中文网 - 中英对照版-中英美国教师在吉林遇袭美方对中国处理方式表达不满

The incident passed in moments: Two American instructors from a college in Iowa were each stabbed in the back on June 10 in northeast China. Two of their colleagues were then slashed on their left arms as they turned to face the assailant. A Chinese national who tried to intervene was knifed in the abdomen.

事件是瞬间发生的：6月10日，来自艾奥瓦州一个学院的两名美国教师在中国东北被人从背后用刀刺伤。随后，两名同事转过身来面对袭击者时，他们的左臂也被砍伤。一名试图阻止行凶者的中国公民被刺中腹部。

Nearly two months later, the attack in Jilin City is becoming the latest in a series of diplomatic frictions between the United States and China. R. Nicholas Burns, the United States ambassador to China, criticized Beijing’s limited divulgence of specifics about the episode and said that he was actively pressing for more disclosure.

近两个月后，这起发生在吉林市的袭击事件正在成为一系列美中外交摩擦的最新一起。美国驻华大使尼古拉斯·伯恩斯批评中国政府对事件细节透露的信息有限，并表示他正在积极敦促中方披露更多信息。

Chinese government “authorities have not provided additional details on the motives of the assailant,” he said in a statement to The New York Times on Tuesday. “We remain dissatisfied about the lack of transparency and have made our concerns abundantly clear to the” government in Beijing.

中国政府“有关当局一直没有提供关于袭击者动机的更多细节”，他在周二发给《纽约时报》的声明中写道。“我们仍对缺乏透明度感到不满，并已向中国政府明确表达了我们的关切。”

In response, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly defended how the stabbings were handled. A statement to The Times on Wednesday, repeating what the Jilin police said shortly after the stabbings, said that the episode began when the assailant, 55, collided on a crowded path with one of the instructors. The statement, released by the ministry’s office of the spokesperson, added that the assailant had been having trouble walking before the collision, but did not elaborate.

中国外交部在回答有关问题时为刺伤事件的处理进行了坚决的辩护。外交部在周三发给时报的声明中重复了刺伤事件发生后不久吉林警方的说法，称事件始于一名55岁的袭击者在一条拥挤的人行道上与其中一名教师“发生碰撞”。这份来自外交部发言人办公室的声明还表示，袭击者在发生碰撞前一直行走困难，但未做详细说明。

“This case was an isolated incident caused by a physical collision and quarrel between the two parties,” the statement said. “It was not targeted at a specific country or person, nor against U.S. personnel in China. Such matters could happen in any country.”

“这是一起孤立的偶发事件，是双方身体碰撞和争吵引起的，”外交部的声明说。“它不针对特定国家或个人，也不针对在华美国人员。这种事情可能发生在任何国家。”

In an interview on Thursday, another U.S. government official, who insisted on anonymity because of diplomatic sensitivities, expressed further dissatisfaction with China’s stance.

另一名美国政府官员周四接受采访时对中国的做法表达了更多的不满。由于问题的外交敏感性，此人要求不具名。

The American official said that the United States Consulate in Shenyang, which handles issues in northeast China, had been notified on Wednesday by a local prosecutor in Jilin City that the suspect would be charged with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” The charge is often used against activists or people involved in small neighborhood disputes. The official said the United States government does not think the charge is commensurate with the crime.

这名美国官员称，负责中国东北辖区领事业务的美国驻沈阳总领馆周三收到了吉林市当地检察官的通知，称将以“寻衅滋事”罪起诉嫌疑人。中国通常用这个罪名来对付权利活动人士或涉及邻里之间小纠纷的人。该官员表示，美国政府认为这个指控与罪行不相称。

In other cases of multiple stabbings in China, the charge has sometimes been “intentional homicide” even if victims survived, according to the official.

该官员称，在中国其他地方发生的多起持刀伤人案中，即使受害者没有死亡，有时也会以“故意杀人”罪指控嫌疑人。

China’s foreign ministry said in response to the American official’s claim about the severity of the charge that the United States “has no right to interfere in China’s legal proceedings, nor should it make irresponsible statements.”

中国外交部在回应美国官员关于指控严重程度的说法时表示，美国“无权干涉中国的法律程序，也不应该发表不负责任的言论”。

The authorities have also said little publicly about the suspect in another attack on foreigners that followed the one in Jilin. On June 24, a Chinese man in Suzhou, a city in east-central China, stabbed and injured a Japanese mother and child at a school bus stop.

中国当局也一直没有对该事件之后发生的另一起针对外国人的袭击案嫌疑人发表多少公开的评论。6月24日，一名中国男子在苏州一个校车站用刀刺伤了一对日本母子。

But a Chinese woman, Hu Youping, prevented the assailant from boarding the bus, which had Japanese children aboard. Ms. Hu, 55, was stabbed repeatedly and later died at a nearby hospital.

中国女子胡友平阻止袭击者登上载有日本儿童的校车时被连捅数刀。55岁的胡友平后来在附近一家医院死亡。

The Suzhou attack triggered discussion online in China. Many internet users hailed her as heroic, but some Chinese nationalists initially defended the assailant and mentioned atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in China before and during World War II.

苏州袭击事件在中国的互联网上引发了讨论。许多网民赞扬胡友平英勇，但也有一些中国民族主义者最初为袭击者辩护，他们提到日本军人在中国抗日战争期间对中国人犯下的暴行。

Several days after the episode, the Suzhou government issued a statement describing Ms. Hu’s actions as “righteous,” and the Japanese Embassy in Beijing flew its flag at half-staff for a day in her honor. The police have said they have detained a suspect for criminal investigation.

事件发生几天后，苏州政府在一份声明中将胡友平的行为描述为“匡扶正义”，日本驻华大使馆为她降半旗一天致哀。警方表示已拘留一名嫌疑人进行刑事调查。

In the Jilin attack, officials have not identified the Chinese citizen who intervened to protect the four instructors, who were from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and had been teaching summer courses at Beihua University in Jilin.

官方尚未公布吉林市袭击事件中站出来保护四名教师的中国公民的姓名。这四名教师来自艾奥瓦州芒特弗农的康奈尔学院，当时正在吉林北华大学教授暑期课程。

The foreign ministry said that the individual acted “bravely” — the first official comment praising the individual who intervened — and suggested the individual wanted to remain anonymous.

中国外交部称该公民的行为“勇敢”——这是官方首次赞扬那个站出来保护他人者——并暗示此人不想公开自己的姓名。

“Regarding contact with those who act bravely, it is important to comply with Chinese law and respect the wishes of the person concerned,” the statement said.

“至于联系见义勇为者的问题，重要的是遵守中国法律，尊重当事人的意愿，”外交部的声明说。

The Chinese statement also attacked the United States’ record on violence.

中国还在声明中抨击了美国在暴力事件方面的记录。

“It should be pointed out that anti-China, anti-Asian sentiment and discriminatory behavior in the United States have posed a real threat to the personal safety of Chinese citizens in the United States,” the statement said.

“应该指出的是，美国境内的反华、反亚裔情绪和歧视行为已对在美中国公民的人身安全构成了实际存在的威胁。”

In interviews last week, more than a dozen Jilin residents said that violent crime, and particularly multiple stabbings, were rare in the city. Outdoor surveillance cameras are ubiquitous in Jilin, as is common in China.

在上周的采访中，十多名吉林市居民表示，暴力犯罪，尤其是持刀刺伤多人的事件在该市非常罕见。吉林市的街上到处都是监控摄像头，中国各地都是如此。

One of the Jilin victims, David Zabner, who was slashed on his arm, said in a telephone interview that he and the other instructors had been taken by ambulances to what was described to him as Jilin’s best hospital. He said he was told that the Chinese citizen who intervened had walked from the park where the attack happened to a neighborhood hospital for treatment.

戴维·扎布纳是受害者之一，他的手臂被砍伤，他在接受电话采访时说，他和其他受伤的教师被救护车送到了据说是吉林市最好的医院。他说，有人告诉他，站出来干预的中国公民自己从发生袭击的公园走到了附近一家医院接受了治疗。

Mr. Zabner said that the assailant used a knife with a blade that was about four inches long.

扎布纳说，袭击者使用的是一把刀刃约10公分长的刀。

All four instructors — the two American citizens stabbed in the back as well as an American citizen and an Indian citizen who lives in the United States as a permanent resident — have returned to the United States after medical treatment in China and, in one case, further treatment in Thailand.

四名受伤的教师（两名从背后被刺伤的均为美国公民，两名手臂被刺伤者一名是美国公民，另一名是在美国有永久居留权的印度公民）在中国接受治疗后已返回美国，其中一人曾在泰国接受了进一步的治疗。

Videos have circulated on social media of the stabbing victims lying on a wide pedestrian path that runs down through Jilin’s Beishan Park from the recently restored Jade Emperor Temple at the top of a hill. The American official who spoke on Thursday complained that the Chinese authorities had refused to release any video from the attack itself.

社交媒体上流传着被刺伤的受害者躺在一条宽阔人行道上的视频，这条人行道将吉林市北山公园与山顶上最近修复的玉皇阁连接起来。周四接受时报采访的美国官员抱怨称，中国当局一直拒绝公布任何袭击事件本身的视频。

It is possible, however, that the actual attack was not filmed, as drooping tree branches appear to block any view of the site from nearby surveillance cameras.

但一个可能性是，并未拍到实际的袭击过程，因为现场附近的监控摄像头被下垂的树枝阻挡住了。