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原文出處: http://tinyurl.com/l22ty4y

As Numbers Swell, Students Pledge to Continue Occupying Taiwan’s Legislature
By AUSTIN RAMZY

隨著人數大增，學生揚言繼續佔據台灣的立法機關
王霜舟

Students who have occupied Taiwan’s Legislature to oppose
the governing party’s efforts to approve a trade deal with
China said Saturday that they would escalate their protests
after President Ma Ying-jeou declined to meet with them.



The number of protesters in Taipei has grown dramatically
since late Tuesday, when several hundred stormed the
legislative chambers and barricaded themselves inside. Outside, thousands
more supporters line the streets around the Legislature, and many of those
Saturday had slept outside overnight.



The protests were set off by efforts by Mr. Ma’s governing party, the
Kuomintang, or K.M.T., to push through an agreement with China that would
lower barriers for the two sides to each other’s service sectors. Lawmakers
had previously agreed to a detailed review of the pact, which was signed in
Shanghai in June 2013 by two semiofficial organizations representing China
and Taiwan.

這些抗議針對的是由馬先生的執政黨、即是國民黨，正在推動的協
議。
這項對中國的協議將降低進入雙方服務業部門的障礙。
國會議員之前已同意詳細審查這項於2013年6月由中台雙方半官方
組織簽署的協議。

Opponents of the trade deal say it will harm businesses in Taiwan and will
allow China to greatly increase its economic influence over the self-governed
island.

該貿易協定的反對者表示該協定將傷害台灣企業，並允許中國大大增
加其對這個自治島嶼的經濟影響力。

A K.M.T. legislator, Chang Ching-chung, advanced the measure to the floor on
March 17, skipping over the promised review, which incited the student-led
protests. The opposition Democratic Progressive Party says that move broke an
agreement to hold an itemized review of the trade deal. The K.M.T. said the
move was necessary because the opposition was blocking the progress of the
measure’s review.


學生領導的抗議活動起因於3月17日，國民黨籍張慶忠委員跳過已承諾
的審查步驟，逕行將該協議交付院會。

在野的民進黨表示此舉打破了原本逐條審查的承諾。國民黨聲稱該措施
他們必須採取該措施，因為反對黨阻擾了審查的進行。

On Friday, students occupying the Legislature called for Mr. Ma to meet with
them and discuss their demands that the service trade agreement be blocked
and that cross-strait trade agreements be more closely monitored by the
Legislature. The president declined, and the students announced that they
would continue their occupation of the Legislature and called for protests at
governing party offices.



Prime Minister Jiang Yi-huah met with demonstrators outside the Legislature
on Saturday afternoon and told them that the executive branch had no
intention of dropping the trade pact.

行政院長江宜樺於星期六下午與示威者在立法院外會見，並表示行政機
關無意放棄該貿易協定。

The students call their protests the Sunflower Movement, and say the flower
is symbolic of the light and transparency they want to bring to the
government.

學生們稱此抗議運動為太陽花運動，以象徵他們希望將光明和透明化帶
入政府裡。

“When I saw that the trade services bill had advanced without any review, it
seemed like an authoritarian technique,” said Sam Wu, a 33-year-old clinical
psychologist who joined the protests on Friday. “I thought it was unjust.
That’s why we’re upset.”

“當我看到服貿在沒有審查下就逕付院會，這讓我覺得是一個專制的
作法，”Sam Wu，一個周五參加抗議的33歲臨床心理學家說。

“我認為這是不公平的。這就是為什麼我們不滿。“

An official from Mr. Ma’s office told the Central News Agency that the
president was willing to discuss the trade deal but wouldn’t be forced into
talks. The K.M.T, holds 65 of 113 legislative seats, versus 40 for the
Democratic Progressive Party, giving the governing party the votes to push
through the measure.

馬先生辦公室的一位官員告訴中央社，總統願意討論貿易協議，但不
接受強迫的會談。

國民黨，擁有立法院113席中的65席。相較之下民進黨只有40席。這給
予執政黨足夠的選票以通過服務貿易協定。

The opposition has endorsed the protests, calling on its members to support
the students and activists occupying the Legislature. The student leaders,
for their part, have sought to distance themselves from the opposition.

反對黨表示對抗議活動的支持並呼籲其成員支持學生和社運人士佔據議
會。

在學生方面，他們力求與反對黨撇清。

“This is not a party movement,” said Shih I-lun, a spokesman for the
students. “This is a movement of the whole society.”

“這不是一個政黨運動”一名學生發言人Shih I-lun表示。
“這是個全民的運動。”

The Legislature’s speaker, Wang Jin-pyng, has said that he does not plan to
have the students removed by force, local newspapers reported Friday. There
were attempts to oust them in the hours after the occupation began Tuesday,
and students barricaded the chambers with chairs.

台灣報紙星期五報導，立法院院長王金平表示他不打算驅離學生。

在星期二佔領發生後的幾個小時，警方曾試圖進行驅離，而學生用椅子守
住議事廳。

Workers have placed barbed-wire barriers around nearby buildings. Large
groups of police officers, some holding riot shields, have been stationed
around the Legislature. As speakers alternate between lectures on economic
matters and rallying songs, volunteers pass out food, water and blankets,
clear trash and try to keep lines of supporters moving through the crowded,
narrow streets.

工人們已在附近的建築架起了鐵絲網。
大批的警員駐守在立法院週遭，其中有一些持著抗暴盾牌。


“I’m not sure what result this will have in the end,” said Mr. Wu. “But
we should use every means to let our government know what we want.”

“我不知道最後的結果會什麼樣的”吳先生表示。
“但是我們應該竭盡所能，讓我們的政府知道我們要什麼。”


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