Why China Censors Banned Winnie the Pooh
中国当局がネット上の"くまのプーさん"の画像をブロック？
BBC News 7月17日の記事です。
わからない語句は英辞郎で:
cernsor 〔動〕検閲する 〔名〕検閲官 [sénsər]
Xi Jinping 習近平
Liu Xiaobo 劉暁波
こちらはこの話題についての、米Wochit Newsの動画(1:07)。
("Shinzo Abe"の発音が△ですね。)
【ディクテーション】 This week, the beloved character of Winnie the Pooh, the anthropomorphic bear created by author A. A. Milne, [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] censors in China. Users of China's popular messaging app WeChat and other social media platforms discovered over the weekend that images and [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] had been scrubbed from the Internet. Albums of GIF images containing Pooh and friends Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore were all [ ] [ ] the apps sticker site.
No official explanation has been given [ ] [ ] [ ], though a popular meme comparing President Xi Jinping to the bear may be the culprit. Images of Xi Jinping meeting with former US President Barack Obama in 2013 had likened to the pair to Winnie and Tigger, while another meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2014 portrayed Abe as Eeyore the sad donkey.
This comes at a time of [ ] Chinese censorship over the news [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] of human rights activist and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
anthropomorphic 擬人化された
app: =application
meme: =Internet meme ネット上で広まる情報(画像、動画、単語、表現など) [míːm]
culprit: 容疑者、犯人、問題の発端
liken A to B . . . : AをBに例える、なぞらえる [láikn]
This comes at a time of . . . / This comes as . . . : 折しも～
【スクリプト】
This week, the beloved character of Winnie the Pooh, the anthropomorphic bear created by author A. A. Milne, seems to have irritated censors in China. Users of China's popular messaging app WeChat and other social media platforms discovered over the weekend that images and mentions of the bear had been scrubbed from the Internet. Albums of GIF images containing Pooh and friends Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore were all removed from the apps sticker site.
No official explanation has been given for the removal, though a popular meme comparing President Xi Jinping to the bear may be the culprit. Images of Xi Jinping meeting with former US President Barack Obama in 2013 had likened to the pair to Winnie and Tigger, while another meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2014 portrayed Abe as Eeyore the sad donkey.
This comes at a time of heightened Chinese censorship over the news regarding the recent death of human rights activist and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.