英译中：在美国，新闻头条就说明了问题：冷战意象因索契而重新复活

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西方媒体抵制索契奥运会，从几十年前的意象图片的重新利用上可以看出这一点，在1980年莫斯科奥运会之前，西方媒体利用这些意象来渲染苏联的可怕。

For months leading up to the biggest sportevent of the year widespread calls to boycott the 2014 Sochi Olympics saturatedthe Western media and social networks.

就在索契举办冬奥会的这几个月前，西方媒体和社交网络倾巢而出，抵制这年度的运动盛事。

With numerous online and offline boycotts,protests and petitions around the world it led to a number of world’s leadersnot attending the opening ceremony of Sochi Olympic Games. Barack Obama, AngelaMerkel and David Cameron chose to ignore the festivities, a move criticized byThomas Bach, head of the International Olympic Committee.

在大量抵制和请愿活动的影响下，有好多领导人都没有参加这次奥运会的开幕式。美德英的领导人都选择忽视这次的奥运会，国际奥委会主席巴哈评判了这些国家的行为。

Sports should not be “used as a stage forpolitical dissent or for trying to score points in internal or externalpolitical contests,” Bach said at the games’ opening, praising those worldleaders who did visit the ceremony.

体育不应该与政治挂钩，不管是国内政治还是国际政治，他在开幕式现场说，并赞扬了那些参加开幕式的领导人。

The Sochi 2014 Olympics have become acatalyst for anyone dissatisfied with Russia’s internal or external policies toexercise their wittiness with sharp caricatures, overblowing certain problemsto catastrophic proportions.

对于那些不满俄罗斯国内和国际政策的人来说，索契奥运会是个抨击的好机会，他们动用尖锐的讽刺漫画来表达自己的感情，不过在度上有点过了。

In such a manner, legislation that outlawspropaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors has been presented tothe international community as a full-scale crackdown on the gay community in apotentially dangerous place for Olympic Games visitors.

如此，把与未成年人发生非传统性关系的宣传界定为非法的法律成了国际新闻，西方媒体把这项法律界定为是对这座可能会对奥运游客造成危险的同性恋社区的全力镇压。

索契唯一的同性恋酒吧最终“被记者团团围住，他们急于知道当地的同性恋者是如何在以仇恨同性恋闻名的俄罗斯生存下去的，”《新共和国周刊》报道。在采访了吧台里的几个客人后，那篇文章的作者得出了结论“唯一对他们造成困扰的人似乎是外国记者。”

Andrew Kreig, author of several books onnews coverage in America, sees nothing surprising in the way foreigncorrespondents have been desperately seeking persecuted Russian gays.

对美国新闻报道著有几本专著的作者Andrew Kreig对外国记者急于寻找被迫害的俄罗斯同性恋的做法并不感到惊讶。

“That’s aclassic case that happens all over the place when reporters think they knowwhat the story is and all they are trying to do is to find someone to attach aname and a face to a story that’s almost written in a reporter’s or editor’shead,” Kreig told RT.

“这是发生在全世界的经典案例，这些记者觉得自己已经知道事情的真相，所以他们唯一需要做的事情就是寻找证据证明自己的想象是正确的，”他对本站说。

However, the LGBT theme has become prettymuch the only fresh idea in the Olympics-bashing campaign, while most of theothers seem to be based on Cold War era stereotypes. Handcuffs, barbed wire andmalicious-looking bears have migrated from the magazine covers of 34 years agoto those of 2014.

然而，同性恋、双性恋以及变性者话题似乎成了抵制这次奥运会活动的唯一新鲜手段，而其他的抵制手段都是从冷战取材。手铐，铁丝网，以及恶毒的黑熊，34年前的这些杂志封面如今被转移到了今天的杂志封面上。

Western phobia of Moscow’s military mightwas prevalent in 1980’s, whenit was inspired by the USSR’s presence in Afghanistan. And the same phobiaseems to still exist in the 21st century, despite Russia not being engaged inany military conflict.

上世纪80年代，西方非常恐惧莫斯科的强大军力，当时的苏联在阿富汗拥有自己的军事存在。而同样的恐惧似乎还依然存在21世纪的今天，尽管俄罗斯并没有参与任何的军事冲突。

柏林墙的倒塌让世界失去了极权镇压的主要标志。而其替代品似乎在克林姆林宫围墙的意象中被找到。

Another idea, that’s not particularly freshis drawing parallels between the Nazi Germany, the 1980 Moscow Olympics and the2014 Sochi Winter Games. This is nothing short of an insult for millions ofRussians whose grandparents sacrificed their lives to battle fascism.

另外一个并非新鲜的想法是把俄罗斯同纳粹德国进行比较，把纳粹奥运会同1980年莫斯科奥运会以及2014年索契冬奥会进行比较。这对众多俄罗斯人来说是一个侮辱，他们的祖父牺牲自己的生命抵抗法西斯。

Barb-wired Olympic rings have dominatedcaricatures both in the past and present. In the Soviet Union it was used as aneffective tool to call attention to a relative lack of freedoms in the‘totalitarian Soviet system’. For the new Russia, it has been mostly used tosignify the increased security measures 

铁丝网状的奥林匹克五环不论是在过去还在现在都是讽刺漫画的主题。在苏联时代，这是一种用来提醒人们‘独裁苏联体系’中缺乏自由的有效工具。对于现在的新俄罗斯而言，人们用这样的意象来表明俄罗斯在确保运动员和游客安全的安保上下了大功夫。

手铐意象的奥运五环不论是在1980年还是在2014，其目的就是为了表达当时的苏联以及现在的俄罗斯是没有人权的。

Even Russians who are critical of thegovernment have found this old-school smear campaign upsetting and irritating.A collection of old magazine covers has recently appeared in a Global Identificationblog, prompting an outpouring of negative comments.

即使是对政府含有批判态度的俄罗斯人也对西方媒体的这种老套的宣传手法感到厌恶和愤怒。一组老杂志封面照片最近重新出现在了《环球鉴定》博客上，引发了人们的消极反应。

“These arefamiliar themes both to the public but also to the owners and also many of theold-time reporters,” Andrew Kreig told RT. “So people fall into a comfortablepattern that actually extends back many decades. People just took the oldmagazine covers and said ‘Let’s just update it for this Olympics.’”

“公众，所有者，以及许多旧时代的记者们都很熟悉这些主题。所以人们很习惯的就进入了几十年前的那种状态。人们把这些老照片拿来，然后说‘让我们用这些老照片来报道这次的冬奥会吧。’”Andrew Kreig说。

1980年代的奥运会抵制并非让人愉快。但从长远来看，在俄罗斯内部人们已经大抵忘记了这件事，如今的俄罗斯人心中所想的只是他们所举办的第一次奥运会给他们带来的温暖回忆。

“中俄明年肯定会增加军事开销，这样将迫使美国提高其17万亿美元的国债。”