《中英對照讀新聞》加拿大電台被要求審查「險峻海峽」名曲

《中英對照讀新聞》Canada radio stations told to censor Dire Straits 加拿大電台被要求審查「險峻海峽」名曲
◎俞智敏

Canada radio stations told to censor Dire Straits

加拿大電台被要求審查「險峻海峽」名曲

Canadian radio station have been warned to censor the 1985 Dire Straits hit "Money for Nothing," after a complaint that the lyrics of the Grammy Award-winning song were derogatory to gay men.

加拿大廣播電台已被警告必須刪除英國樂團「險峻海峽」1985年暢銷名曲「金錢無用」的部份用語，因為有人抱怨這首曾獲葛萊美獎的名曲歌詞貶損了男同志。

A St. John’s, Newfoundland, station should have edited the song to remove the word "faggot" because it violates Canada’s human rights standards, according to ruling by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.

根據加拿大廣播標準委員會判決，一間位於紐芬蘭聖約翰市的電台理應在播放這首歌時先編輯並刪除歌詞中的「faggot」一字，因為這個字已違反了加拿大的人權標準。

A unnamed listener to OZ FM complained to the industry watchdog last year after hearing the song. The council said it realized Dire Straits uses the word sarcastically, and its use might have been acceptable in 1985 when it was released, but said it was now inappropriate.

OZ FM電台一位不知名的聽眾，去年在聽到該電台播放這首歌後提出申訴。委員會表示理解「險峻海峽」在歌中是以諷刺性語調使用此字，而且這種用法在該曲於1985年發表時或許可被人接受，但現在恐怕已不適用。

"The decision doesn’t really relate to the Dire Straits song at the end of the day, the decision relates to the word in question," said Ron Cohen, the council’s chairman.

「歸根究底，這項決定並非關乎『險峻海峽』的歌曲，而是關係到這個字眼本身」，委員會主席柯恩說。

The ruling comes in the wake of an uproar sparked by a U.S. scholar who decided to publish an edition of Mark Twain’s novel "Huckleberry Finn" that would remove the word "nigger" to make it less offensive to some readers.

就在美國學者決定出版馬克吐溫名作「頑童歷險記」，並移除書中的「nigger」一字以免冒犯到某些讀者、卻引發激烈辯論之後，加拿大當局又作出了上述判決。

新聞辭典

derogatory：形容詞，指減損的、貶低的、有傷品格的，如He made some derogatory comment/remark about her appearance.（他對她的外貌說了些很損人的評語。）

at the end of the day：片語，指到頭來，說到最後，如Of course I’ll listen to what she has to say but at the end of the day, it’s my decision.（我當然會聽聽她的意見，但到最後這仍是我自己的決定。）

in the wake of sth：片語，指在某事之後發生、因為某事而導致，如Airport security was extra tight in the wake of yesterday’s bomb attacks.（在昨天發生炸彈攻擊後，機場的安全措施格外嚴密。）