印度对两倍于自由女神的新雕像引以为傲 [美国媒体]

India is now home to the world’s tallest statue.

印度现在是世界上拥有追到雕像的国家。

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally presented the massive 600-foot Statue of Unity, which depicts the so-called Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, on Wednesday.

印度现任总理莫迪在周三展示了这个600英尺高的团结雕像，雕像人物被称为“印度铁人”的帕特里。

The incredible statue is twice the size of the Statue of Liberty ― or nearly four times larger if you don’t include Liberty’s pedestal ― and overlooks the Narmada River in the western state of Gujarat, where the independence leader was born.

这座惊人的雕像是自由女生的两倍高，如果不算自由女生的基座的话，几乎达到四倍，雕像俯瞰西部古吉拉特邦的纳尔马达河，帕特里就是在这里出生的。

Before becoming India’s first deputy prime minister, Patel was inspired by the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi, leading him to organize a nonviolent civil disobedience movement against British colonialism.

帕特尔受到了圣雄甘地(Mahatma Gandhi)哲学的启发，他组织了一场反对英国殖民主义的非暴力公民抗命运动，后来他成为了印度第一副总理。



“Patel took charge of the task to forge a united India from the 565 semi-autonomous princely states and British-era colonial provinces. Using frank diplomacy backed with the option (and the use) of military action, Patel’s leadership enabled the accession of almost every princely state,” a website dedicated to the statue and Patel’s life reads.

一个关于这座雕像和帕特尔生平的专题网站上这样写道：“帕特尔利用军事行动选项和坦诚的外交将565个半自治的子王国和英国时代的殖民地省份统一，建立了印度。”

The statue is the first crowd-funded monument in modern India, according to the website. The New York Times reports that it cost $400 million.

据这个网站介绍，这座雕像是现代印度第一个群众集资建立的纪念碑，据“纽约时报”报道，它耗资4亿美元。



The statue is made of iron from former farming supplies and soil from villages across the country to ensure “that Indians from all walks of life get a chance to actively participate in the construction of this icon of national unity, in most of the ways possible,” according to the Statue of Unity website.



据印度NDTV报道称，“如果帕特尔可以看到因为这座巨大的雕像对自然资源的大规模破坏和对我们造成的不公正待遇，他会哭泣，”22位当地领导人写给总理的信中写道，“当我们提出我们的问题时，会受到警察的迫害。为什么你不听听我们的的声音，理解我们的困境？“



The outrage apparently did little to dampen the spirits of India’s prime minister, however.

然而，这种愤怒显然对印度总理的意志没有什么影响。

“Every Indian will be proud of the fact that the world’s tallest statue is now in India. Sardar Patel, the man connected with the land, will now adorn the sky,” Modi said Sunday. “I am sure every Indian will take pride in telling the world about this great accomplishment.”

“每个印度人都会为世界上最高的雕像现在在印度而感到自豪。 帕特尔，这个与这边土地息息相关的人，将装饰这边天空，“莫迪在星期天说到， “我相信每个印度人都会为向世人讲述这一伟大成就感到自豪。”

On the banks of the Narmada stands the majestic statue of a great man, who devoted his entire life towards nation building.

在纳尔马达的岸边矗立着一位伟人的雄伟雕像，他将自己的一生奉献给了印度的国家建设。

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ex.machina：22 hours ago
How many microloans to help local farmers and merchants start their businesses could $400 million have done? In a nation where the average income is $7,200 per year? Does coercion which "Iron Man" used in his era, work now? Even "local tribal leaders objected to the statue and said they would boycott its dedication." An expensive cold piece of metal does not bring about a people united - any more than the Statute of Liberty welcomes caravans in 2018.

对一个平均每年收入7200美元的国家来说，四亿美元可以帮助多少当地农民和商人发放小额贷款开办他们的企业 ？ “印度铁人”在他的时代使用的强制现在起作用了吗？ 甚至“当地领导人反对这座雕像，并说他们会抵制其落成。” 一座昂贵的冷金属片并没有让人们团结起来 - 甚至比不上2018年的“自由女神”欢迎大篷车事件的“团结作用”。

Rashid：4 hours ago
Could have build largest parks and museums in mr Patel name

可以用帕特尔先生的名字建造最大的公园和博物馆



Woland：7 hours ago
I read that India needs like 50,000,000 toilets so gigantic statue might be the secondary thing to direct resources to.

据我所知印度需要50000000个厕所，因此浪费资源在这座巨大的雕像真是不必要。

SanAn：yesterday
Vanity project for the living at the expense of the Indian people that Patel loved so much.

这是以牺牲帕特尔所钟爱的印度人为代价的虚荣项目。

David Ball：yesterday
Imagine how many people you could lift from poverty/treat for medical conditions with the money they spent on that. I'm sure upkeep is going to cost a pretty penny.

想象一下，利用花在这上面的这笔钱有多少人可以摆脱贫困/有医疗条件治疗， 而且我敢肯定保养会花费更多的钱。

PaulM：6 hours ago
I would have voted for running water.

要我的话，我支持把钱花在自来水上。

Kimberly：yesterday
I'm not sure how anyone in India feels about this statue. But for what this cost to build wouldn't the money went to better uses. And knowing another is going to be built in Mumbai. Seems a waste of money.

我不知道印度对这座雕像的感受。但是，这座雕像花的钱可以用于更好的用途，我还知道另一个将在孟买建造，太浪费钱了。

Rajshekhar：11 hours ago
As an Indian I find the comments quite funny. Majority of the comments are from those who get their knowledge about India from watching Apu from Simpsons. If the high school dropouts could read they would have known that the World Bank just released TODAY a report on Ease of Doing Business where India's ranking went up from 100 to now 77, a jump of 23 places in just a year. In 2016 India's ranking was 143, a jump of 66 places in last two years. India also boasts the fastest growing economy in the world at 8% a year, India's GDP increases by $300 Billion every year, they can afford to spend $400 million on a statue. India has lifted 800 million people out of poverty in the last 2 decades alone.

作为印度人，我觉得这些评论很有趣。大多数评论来自那些从《辛普森一家》观看阿噗而了解印度的人，如果这些高中辍学者看报道，他们就会知道世界银行今天刚刚发布了一份关于“经商环境”的报告，其中印度的排名从100上升到现在的77，仅仅一年就增加了23位，2016年印度的排名为143，在过去两年中跃升了66位，印度也是世界上增长最快的经济体，年增长率为8％，印度的国内生产总值每年增加3000亿美元，他们可以在雕像上花费4亿美元。仅在过去的20年里，印度已经使8亿人摆脱了贫困。



budgie d：7 hours ago
All the countries sending foreign aid to India should take notice and reconsider their contributions

所有向印度发放援助资金的国家应该注意并重新考虑他们的捐助了。

Jivaka：yesterday
what a waste of funds...could have built a first rate university with that kind of money and honored him by naming it after him...

多么浪费钱的建筑，本来可以用这种钱建立一流的大学，并用他的名字来命名以尊敬他......