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发表于 2011-11-2 15:51:52
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最近偷懒了好几天,实在羞愧。贴上英语版,顺便校对一下今天的译文吧!
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VOX POPULI: Tokyo's mysterious underworld hides many secrets
The deepest subway line in Japan is the Toei Oedo Line operated by the Bureau of Transportation, Tokyo Metropolitan Government.It was completed some 10 years ago. The platform of Roppongi Station, which is the deepest, is 42 meters below ground level. Tokyo has many subterranean facilities, including old subways and underground malls, which form intricate patterns under the city. New subway lines have no choice but to bow and go deeper.
That world of darkness, in which more than 10 subway lines crisscross, has been likened to a labyrinth. According to a book on the subject, a mysterious space filled with facilities that tell a hidden side of Japanese history, including air raid shelters for the Imperial Japanese Army and secret government tunnels, lies beneath the nation's capital.
As the occasional discovery of unexploded bombs shows, no one can tell what is buried under residential areas. The source of the high levels of radioactivity measured in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward was not the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, but lay under the ground. Excavation of the grounds of the supermarket where the contamination was found unearthed a substance believed to be radium.
Just recently, high radioactive readings led to the discovery of radium under the floor of a vacant house, also in Setagaya Ward. It was not far from my home. This time, the site is 10 minutes away by foot. Vans carrying reporting crews flocked to the scene. Since elementary and junior high schools are nearby, parents must be worried.
Seized with fear of the nuclear accident, many parents are patrolling school routes carrying dosimeters. Sources of radiation unrelated to the nuclear accident are being found in these highly scrutinized areas. It is as if a house-to-house search for the perpetrator of a heinous crime has turned up a different criminal who has long been in hiding.
Setagaya must not be the only place with such unsettling secrets. What lies underneath the asphalt is "an unknown world," and there must be other sources of danger, which are not necessarily radioactive and not necessarily underground, that we are unaware of because they are invisible. Not knowing is not the same as feeling secure.
--The Asahi Shimbun, Nov. 2 |
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