Wedding Woes in India
在印度的婚礼困境
Wen-Chi Liao
【新闻关键字】
1. wedding:n. 结婚
2. disrupt: v. 受阻
3. vehicle:n. 车辆
4. tractor:n. 农场用的拖拉车
5. shortage:n. 短缺
6. take over: v. (phr.)接收
Another take on the month-long election process in India. Weddings are getting hard hit by the election this year because they are finding their wedding parties disrupted by a lack of vehicles. Evidently, authorities are taking vehicles for election duty, leaving wedding guests with just motorbikes and tractors.
另ㄧ个镜头是印度长达一个月的选举。今年结婚因选举而严重受创，因为他们发现结婚典礼没有车辆可用而受阻。显然地，当局把车辆挪去用在选举事务上，造成参加婚礼的客人只剩摩托车与农场用的拖拉车了。
We go to India’s central Madhya Pradesh for this story, where a shortage of vehicles is causing wide-spread panic among the area’s grooms.
我们前往印度中部中央邦采访此则新闻，车辆短缺让这地区的新郎十分慌张。
[Sashikant, Groom]:
“We are facing difficulty because of the elections. Many relatives have not been able to come to the marriage and then the police have taken over the private vehicles. How can people come for the marriage I want to ask? I came in an auto and some people are coming by tractors and motorbikes."
新郎萨西肯说：“因为选举，我们面临困难，警察接收私人车辆，许多亲戚没法参加婚礼，我搭车来，有些人搭小汽车或骑摩托车，我想问人们怎么参加婚礼？”
【新闻关键字】
7. arrangement:n. 安排
8. additional: adj. 附属的
9. spare: v. 提供、拨出
10. book: v. 登记、预定
11. poll:n. 投票
12. phase: n. 阶段
Vipin Sharma, a transport official from Gwalior said that election arrangements had been worked out at a meeting with vehicle owners.
来自Gwalior交通官员威平‧夏马说选举车辆的安排是和车辆主人开会决定的。
[Vipin Sharma, Transport Official]:
“The additional District Magistrate had called a meeting of all the vehicle owners and asked them if they could spare their vehicles. If some vehicle owner had twenty vehicles he was asked to spare fifteen, which he did willingly. The vehicles which had been booked for the marriage ceremony in advance have been spared.”
交通官员威平‧夏马说：“附属的地区行政官召开过车主的会议，询问他们是否愿意提供车辆，假如车主有20辆车，他被要求提供15辆，这是自愿的。原本登记预定为婚礼用的车，就被提供出去了。”
Madhya Pradesh goes to polls in two phases on April 23 and 30.
中央邦4月23及30日分两阶段投票。
本英语新闻影音出处：新唐人英语新闻
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_life/2009-04-29/373064723024.html
