Culture clash over Japanese whaling
日本捕鯨引發文化衝突
Clashes between Japanese whaling vessels and activists from the Sea Shepherd anti-whaling group have received global attention, but do not go down well in Japan, where whale meat is still considered a delicacy.
日本捕鯨船與海洋牧者反捕鯨運動人士的衝突已引起全球矚目，但日本對此事的觀 感普遍不佳，因為鯨肉在日本仍被視為是珍饈。
While the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been confronting Japanese whalers on the high seas, Greenpeace has been taking a different approach to end whaling. It is trying to turn the take-it-or-leave-it attitude to whale meat among many young Japanese into outright opposition to whaling.
當海洋牧者保育組織在公海上與日本捕鯨船正面衝突之際，綠 色和平組織則採取了不同的方式來終止捕鯨。該組織正試圖使日本年輕人目前對鯨肉採取不吃就拉倒的冷漠態度，轉變為徹底反對捕鯨。
They have produced videos and held protests highlighting the cost to taxpayers of subsidising the annual whale hunt in the Southern Ocean, justified by Japan as scientific research.
該組織製作了影片並舉行多場示威，旨在凸顯出日 本政府每年補助漁船到南冰洋捕鯨，其實花的都是納稅人的錢，而這種捕鯨行為卻被日本政府用科學研究的名目予以合理化。
"Japanese people need to know the reality of this so-called scientific research," says Junichi Sato, a Greenpeace programme director. "Most of the people in Japan don’t know that Japan is killing close to 1,000 whales a year in the Southern Ocean."
綠色和平計畫負責人佐藤潤一表示，「日本民眾必須了解這種所謂科學研究的真相。」「多數 日本人並不知道，日本每年在南冰洋殺害將近1000頭鯨魚。」
"Most of the people, once they know about it, think this is not a science at all. That’s a start, that’s why we need to feed information."
「多數人一旦了解實情後，就會認為這根本不是科學。這是個開始，這也就是我 們必須提供資訊的理由。」
新聞辭典
go down：片語，指被以某種方式看待或記得，如I think my speech went down rather well, don’t you?（我覺得我剛才的演說效果不錯，你覺得呢？）或如His contribution to world peace will go down in history. （他對世界和平的貢獻將留名青史。）
take it or leave it：片語，指對某人提出不會改變的最後立場，不要就拉倒，如That’s my final offer. Take it or leave it.（這是我最後的提議，要不要隨你便。）take-it-or-leave-it為形容詞用法，多置於名詞之前，如It was a firm take-it-or-leave-it proposition.（這是一項不要就拉倒的強硬提議。）
feed：動詞，指提供某事給某 人，或把某事物持續放進機器或系統內，如A member of the prince’s staff had been feeding the newspaper information/feeding information to the newspaper.（王子的一名部屬一直在提供情報給這家報紙。）
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