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“It’s vital for all of us to show that this is not all about some expensive politically correct green act of ‘bunny-hugging’ or however you want to put it.”
“重要的是，我们应该展示出来（应对气候变化）并不是政治正确的‘拥抱兔子’环保行动，或者你心中所想的那种行动。”英国首相约翰逊·鲍里斯说。
“Nothing wrong with bunny-hugging but you know what I’m driving at.”
“‘拥抱兔子’（环保行动）并没有什么错，大家都懂我的意思。”
你，理解约翰逊的意思了吗？
没关系，外国网友也不理解。
英国首相迷惑性发言引发嘲讽
这是4月22日气候峰会上，英国首相约翰逊约翰逊的原话。然而，将应对气候变化行动用“bunny-hugging”（带贬义的动物保护行动）指代既不正式，甚至还有误用的嫌疑。此番言论瞬间在社交媒体上引发争议。
不少网友为英国有这样一个“不靠谱”的首相而汗颜。
“bunny hugging”听上去像是公立学校里指代**的低俗俚语。
大家最好是缩在沙发后面看首相的演讲视频...... 这番言论令人崩溃。我们当下面临的是性命攸关的问题，他却莽撞地说出“bunny hugging”这样的话。
我完全不知道他想表达什么。就让这一切掉下悬崖，坠入大海，永远消失吧！
太尴尬了。
It was not entirely clear what he was driving at, and Thunberg – who rarely misses a chance to mock the world leaders who she has spent her childhood pushing to take bolder, more urgent steps against climate change – seized the moment.
虽然我们并不能完全理解约翰逊想表达的意思，但环保主义者格雷塔·图恩伯格及时抓住了英国首相的把柄。这位女孩将自己的童年时光用来推动各国领导人采取更大胆、更紧急的应对气候变化措施，她也从不错过嘲笑世界领导人的机会。
她将自己推特的简介改成了“bunny hugger”。
然而，在外国网友为这个词和英国首相感到无比尴尬之时，我们一定会有一个疑问：
“bunny hugging”究竟是什么意思？
这个问题甚至也难倒了一位口译员。
顺便说一下，不仅仅是 ‘蛋糕，有，吃’会需要口译员进行一些自发的独创， "拥抱兔子"也是。但是，嘿，这就是为什么口译员的工作如此有趣。我们喜欢挑战。
注：“cake, have, eat”是约翰逊在该演讲中另一处让人摸不着头脑的短语。
从字面意思上看，bunny hugging可能是这样的：
事实上，根据 News Letter 的整理：
The terms 'bunny-hugging' or 'bunny-hugger' are both regarded as derogatory phrases used to undermine environmental, climate change and animals rights activists.
“bunny-hugging "或 "bunny-hugger "这两个词是贬义短语，用于贬低环境、气候变化和动物权利保护者。
例句：Multiple attempts were made to destroy not only Carson's scientific credibility but also her personal reputation: she was a fanatic, she was a “bunny hugger”, she was a dangerous reactionary who would drag modern society backwards into a new Middle Ages filled with pests, vermin, crop destruction and lethal diseases.
—— Margaret Atwood, The Guardian (London), 8 Dec. 2012
人们多次试图毁掉卡逊科学研究的可信度和她的个人声誉。他们称她是一个狂热分子，她是一个“兔子拥抱者”（ “bunny hugger”），她是一个危险的反动分子，会使现代社会倒退回一个充满啃食庄稼的害虫和致命疾病的新中世纪。
—— 《卫报》2012.12.8
Carson: Rachel Carson，蕾切尔·卡逊，美国生态学家，《寂静的春天》的作者。
However, depending on which part of Canada you are in a 'bunny-hug' could mean a hoodie with a large pocket on the front of the garment which is popular with young people.
然而，在加拿大的部分地区，" bunny-hug "可能指代一类在年轻人中流行的连帽衫，衣服前面有一个大口袋。
The 'bunny-hug' was also the name given to a dance in the USA that became popular in the 1940s.
“bunny-hug”也是一舞蹈名称，该舞蹈自上世纪40年代开始在美国流行。
但无论是哪种解释，“bunny-hugging”都不能、也不应该出现在全球气候峰会之上。
首相口误了？
他想说的或许是 “tree-hugging”？
有人分析，约翰逊可能在发言时突然“卡壳”，将“bunny hugging”与“tree hugging”相混淆了。因为，他曾在相似的场合使用了“tree hugging”一词。
Following the Climate Action Summit in December 2020, headlines focused on his insistence that climate change wasn’t just a concern for “tree-hugging, mung bean-munching eco-freaks”. A few months later, when he addressed the UN, he argued against those who “say this is all green stuff from a bunch of tree-hugging tofu munchers and not suited to…politics”.
一家致力于环境保护的博客发表文章称，在2020年12月的气候行动峰会之后，各大媒体头条新闻都聚焦于约翰逊。他坚持气候变化不仅仅是 "抱抱树做样子，或吃绿豆的环保怪人"。几个月后，当他在联合国发表讲话时，他反对那些 "说（应对气候变化行动）都是一群‘tree-hugging’、吃豆腐的环保主义者的绿色行动，不适合......政治 "的人。
究竟什么是“tree-hugging”呢？
一些人实践其字面意思，走进大自然拥抱树木，将其作为一种放松心情，抚平情绪的方式。
而tree hugger有更为正式的内涵:
A slang, sometimes derogatory, term for environmentalists
指代环保人士的俚语，有时带贬义。
但无论是bunny hugging还是tree hugging，一名国家领导人在正式演讲中使用这两词都显得不合时宜。
怪不得喜剧表演者Michael Spicer要火速发视频嘲讽约翰逊了。
“The Room Next Door”系列中，Spicer扮演国家领导人的实时“发言指导顾问”，讽刺其发言。
类似的环保主义者的贬义词不在少数。以下四个短语都与“bunny hugger”意思相近，是一种对积极的环保主义者的蔑称，形容过于狂热的环保主义。慎用！
Tree hugger: An informal and derogatory way to call an environmentalist, especially one concerned with preserving forests.
Duck squeezer: A derogatory term for someone with strong concerns about the environment and conservation, especially rescuing oil-covered ducks.
Eagle freak: A derogatory term for someone with strong concerns about the environment and conservation, especially the preservation of eagles. A homophone（谐音词） of the term “eco freak”.
Eco freak: A derogatory term for someone with strong concerns about the environment and conservation.
行动胜于雄辩，英国减排行动进展如何？
尽管约翰逊的发言让人大跌眼镜，但在刚刚落幕不久的气候峰会上，英国做出了自己的承诺。
He went onto explain that the UK’s carbon emissions are the lowest they’ve been since the 19th century.
约翰逊称，英国的碳排放量达到了19世纪以来的最低值。
Britain’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 8.9% in 2020, largely driven by a slump in economic activity due to measures to limit the spread of coronavirus, provisional government data showed on Thursday.
然而根据路透社上月报道，尽管英国2020年的温室气体（GHG）排放量下降了8.9%，但下降原因并不是政府的减排措施，而是防疫限制措施导致的经济活动减退。
“It’s important the government does not celebrate this, instead it must ramp up action to genuinely slash emissions in a meaningful way from every sector of society,” Greenpeace UK’s policy director, Doug Parr said in a statement.
英国绿色和平组织政策主任道格-帕尔在一份声明中说："政府不应为数字下降而庆祝，反而需要加强有切实意义的减排行动，在社会各个领域都实现真正的减排。”
Ahead of the event, the UK government had already announced its plans to cut the nation’s carbon emissions by 78% compared to 1990 levels by 2035.
在4月22日的峰会开始之前，英国政府宣布，计划到2035年，全英的碳排放量将较1990年减少78%。
希望约翰逊的减排政策不会像他的演讲一样，让人们不知where he is “driving at”。
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