赏析版2011年7-12月经济学人文章(英汉双语对照)汇(14)

2006年，那杆木枪都一直是他最好的玩具。而在那一年，他试爆了一颗核弹，用它把美国人吓得晕头胀脑，逼得全世界都向朝鲜运送食物。

Even as it did so, outsiders mocked him. Inside the country, no one dared. Mr Kim knew exactly how the population lined up: loyal core, 5-25%; wavering, 50-75%; hostile, 8-27%. But those who dissented—even in a whisper, even by hanging his portrait askew—ended in prison camps, subject to forced labour and starvation. Perhaps one in 20 North Koreans passed through Mr Kim‘s gulags. Possibly 200,000 remain there. The rest were either brainwashed or, as he said, pretended to be.

尽管情况如此，外界还是嘲笑他。在朝鲜国内可没有谁敢这么干。少帅清楚地知道朝鲜人民是如何站队的：忠于他的核心，5 – 25%；摇摆不定者，50 – 7 5%；敌对分子，8 – 27%。但那些与他意见相左的人——哪怕只是小声嘀咕过，哪怕只是把他的肖像挂歪了——都会被送入监禁集中营，接受强制劳动、忍受饥饿。或许20个朝鲜人中就有一个曾进过少帅的古拉格群岛[注]。可能有20万人仍在那里。其他的人或者已经被洗脑，或者像他说的那样，假装自己已经被洗脑。

His death, too, might well have been scripted by himself: on one of his beloved trains (he feared flying), as he visited his people to offer ―on-the-spot guidance‖, while a snowstorm paused, and the holy mountain of his birth glowed red with the rising Sun. ―Forgive me,‖ he once said to Shin, as he half-heartedly apologised for kidnapping and imprisoning him. ―I was playing a role.‖ To the bitter end.

他的死亡或许也是煞有介事地根据他自写的脚本发生的：那是在一场暴风雪暂停之际，初升的朝阳将他诞生的圣山染成一片血色，他乘坐他心爱的一辆火车（他有飞机恐惧症）出外视察，对他的子民进行―现场指导‖。―原谅我，‖他曾半心半意地为劫持并监禁申相玉向他道歉：―我是在扮演一个角色。‖他把角色一直演到了苦涩的结尾。

[注] 《古拉格群岛》（俄语原名：Архипелаг Гулаг）是由苏联作家亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴写的一部最有力和最有影响的反映苏联奴隶劳动和集中营故事的书。这里的古拉格群岛代指朝鲜的集中营。 译者：悠悠万事97

[2011.12.29]NHS reform 英国医改

Under the knife: Paying for priority

开刀手术：谁付钱谁优先

Dec 29th 2011, 11:38 by Under the knife

In this series of blog posts, an administrator at a Greater London hospital reports on what life is really like inside the National Health Service

在这个系列的博文中，一个大伦敦医院的管理员报导了在英国国民医疗保健制度下的生活的真实情况。

THE health secretary‘s recent proposal to lift the cap on private patient income for NHS foundation trusts worries me. It is not the economic arguments which I find concerning: a nifty source of extra income for cash-strapped hospitals would be useful, though some seem to think it would cause the death of the National Health Service. Rather I worry that it would lead to NHS patients being seen less promptly in hospitals that took large numbers of paying customers.