《经济学人》食品安全丑闻：捉迷藏式的甲醛污染 [B2]

发布于 2026-09-06 · 时长 8:15

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时间	英文	中文
0:17	This time, it is the cabbages that Chinese shoppers are avoiding.	这一次,正是中国店主们所避免的白菜.
0:21	On August 22, a blogger posted videos of truckers in Kung Pao, a county a few hours dry from	8月22日,一名博客在县城Kung Pao张贴卡车司机的录像,
0:28	Beijing, dipping the vegetables in formaldehyde.	北京,将蔬菜浸入醛中.
0:32	The chemical keeps their pale green leaves looking fresh on their journeys through the	化学物质让它们苍白的绿叶在它们穿越的旅途中保持新鲜
0:37	summer heat, but formaldehyde can also cause cancer.	夏季发热,但醛也可引起癌症.
0:41	Amid national outrage, authorities have set up checkpoints to test cabbages leaving the	国家愤怒之下,当局设立了检查站,以测试离开朝鲜的白菜。
0:46	county.	县志.
0:47	So far, three people have been detained on criminal charges.	迄今为止,已有3人因刑事指控被拘留。
0:51	Singapore and South Korea have also stepped up inspections of Chinese cabbage imports.	新加坡和韩国也加大了对中国白菜进口商品的检查力度.
0:58	State-run media have blasted the truckers for breaching the moral bottom line.	国营媒体爆料货车商突破道德底线.

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1	This time, it is the cabbages that Chinese shoppers are avoiding.	这一次,正是中国店主们所避免的白菜.
2	On August 22, a blogger posted videos of truckers in Kung Pao, a county a few hours dry from	8月22日,一名博客在县城Kung Pao张贴卡车司机的录像,
3	Beijing, dipping the vegetables in formaldehyde.	北京,将蔬菜浸入醛中.
4	The chemical keeps their pale green leaves looking fresh on their journeys through the	化学物质让它们苍白的绿叶在它们穿越的旅途中保持新鲜
5	summer heat, but formaldehyde can also cause cancer.	夏季发热,但醛也可引起癌症.
6	Amid national outrage, authorities have set up checkpoints to test cabbages leaving the	国家愤怒之下,当局设立了检查站,以测试离开朝鲜的白菜。
7	county.	县志.
8	So far, three people have been detained on criminal charges.	迄今为止,已有3人因刑事指控被拘留。
9	Singapore and South Korea have also stepped up inspections of Chinese cabbage imports.	新加坡和韩国也加大了对中国白菜进口商品的检查力度.
10	State-run media have blasted the truckers for breaching the moral bottom line.	国营媒体爆料货车商突破道德底线.
11	Yet many Chinese are wearily unsurprised.	然而,许多中国人对我们并不感到惊讶。
12	One farm worker in Kung Pao admitted he had known about the problem for some time.	贡保的一位农场工人承认,他知道这个问题已有一段时间。
13	Reports of formaldehyde misuse go back at least as far as 2012, and the chemical is	关于甲醛滥用的报告至少可以追溯到2012年,该化学品是:
14	just one of the nasty substances that still end up in the country's food.	只有一种令人讨厌的物质最终仍然在这个国家的食物。
15	Last week, a cleaning company was put under investigation for using a banned pesticide	上周,一家清洁公司因使用禁用杀虫剂而受到调查
16	in restaurants.	在餐馆。
17	Bayberry sellers were recently caught soaking their wares in another prohibited chemical	贝贝利卖家最近被逮到浸泡了另一种被禁止的化学品
18	to keep them fresh.	让他们保持新鲜。
19	Few things anger China's public as much as food safety scandals.	很少有事情像食品安全丑闻一样激怒中国公众.
20	Many are still haunted by a case in 2008 when tainted milk powder made some 300,000 children	许多人仍然在2008年遭遇一起事件,当时有污点的奶粉使大约30万儿童死亡。
21	ill and killed six.	病了又杀了六个人
22	In 2013, Xi Jinping, China's leader, tied the legitimacy of the Communist Party to the	2013年,中国领导人习近平将中共的合法性与"中国共产党"捆绑在一起.
23	problem.	问题。
24	If our party cannot even ensure food safety, he said, then people will start to question	他说,如果我们的党连食品安全都不能保证, 那么人们就会开始质疑
25	whether we are qualified to govern.	我们是否有资格执政。
26	Yet the scandals continue.	然而丑闻仍在继续。
27	And as China grows more powerful and sophisticated, the problem becomes more embarrassing.	而随着中国的实力日益强大和复杂,问题也变得更加尴尬.
28	People can buy cutting-edge homegrown robots, electric cars and smartphones, but they still	人们可以购买先进的本土机器人,电动汽车和智能手机,但他们仍然
29	do not trust their country's food.	不要相信他们国家的食物。
30	Some progress has been made.	已经取得了一些进展。
31	China has tightened the comprehensive law on food safety it passed in 2009.	中国收紧了2009年通过的食品安全综合法律.
32	Current regulations are not that much weaker than Europe's.	目前的条例并不比欧洲弱得多。
33	Punishments, meanwhile, can be far more severe.	与此同时,惩罚可能更为严厉。
34	Two men involved in the milk powder scandal were executed.	两名参与奶粉丑闻的人被处死.
35	China has also made progress on pesticides.	中国在农药方面也取得了进展。
36	Farmers now use less of them thanks to training, crop testing and bans on the most toxic substances.	由于培训、作物试验和禁止使用最有毒物质,农民现在较少使用这些药物。
37	连研究公司Trivium China的Pei都记下来了
38	That means fewer harmful residues on someone's plate.	这意味着在某人的盘子里有害的残留物减少.
39	One study of Sichuan Province in southwestern China found pesticides per acre had fallen	中国西南部的四川省的一项研究发现,每英亩的农药已经下降
40	by a third from 2010 to 2020.	从2010年到2020年的三分之一。
41	Yet the scale of the challenge is still daunting.	然而,挑战的规模仍然巨大。
42	Ensuring food safety is tricky anywhere.	确保食品安全在任何地方都很困难。
43	This summer, America is dealing with a nasty parasite outbreak spreading via lettuce.	今年夏天,美国正在处理一种通过生菜传播的可怕的寄生虫疫情。
44	In China, the difficulty is compounded by the fragmentation of the food industry.	在中国,由于食品工业的分化,困难更加严重.
45	A few big agricultural firms jostle alongside 160 million independent farmers who mostly	几家大型农业公司与1.6亿独立农民并肩游荡,他们大多是农民。
46	eke out a living on small patches of land in poorer parts of the country.	以小块土地为生,
47	Then there are the hundreds of thousands of companies moving grains, fruit and vegetables	还有几十万个公司在搬运谷物、水果和蔬菜
48	from farms to cities.	从农场到城市
49	Most Chinese people also buy their groceries from small neighbourhood markets rather than	大部分中国人也从小街区市场购买杂货,而不是
50	big supermarket chains.	大连锁超市
51	Most of them dine out in hole-in-the-wall restaurants.	他们大多在墙洞里的餐厅吃饭
52	That all creates plenty of room for dodgy actors operating on margins thin enough to	这一切为在边际上行事的狡猾的演员创造了足够的空间
53	encourage taking shortcuts.	鼓励快捷键。
54	Regulatory bodies are as fragmented as the industry they govern.	管理机构与其治理的行业一样分散。
55	Things can fall through the cracks.	事情会从裂缝里掉下来
56	In 2024, it came to light that cooking oil was being transported by lorry and by ship	2024年,发现食用油是用卡车和船运输的
57	in tanks that were also used for fuel without cleaning in between.	在罐体中,这些罐体也用于燃料而不在两者之间清洗。
58	Stopping such dirty tricks might have been the responsibility of China's market regulator.	停止这种肮脏的伎俩可能是中国市场监管者的责任。
59	But the obligation might instead have fallen to the transport ministry or an office in	但这项义务可能落在运输部或运输部的办事处身上。
60	charge of managing strategic resources like oil.	管理石油等战略资源。
61	In the end, all failed.	最后都失败了
62	It was an investigation by state-run media that discovered the problem.	是国营媒体的调查发现了这个问题.
63	China is hoping technology can help.	中国希望科技能有所帮助.
64	Some fixes are simple.	有些修补很简单。
65	Many Chinese restaurants now livestream their kitchens so customers can watch their food	现在很多中餐馆都把厨房搬进来了这样顾客就可以看食物了
66	being made.	正在制作中。
67	Others are fancier.	其他人更爱玩
68	Some big companies use blockchain, a kind of secure shared database, to track their	一些大公司使用区块链,一种安全的共享数据库,来跟踪它们
69	products.	产品。
70	China is also building out its cold chain, the network of refrigerated lorries and warehouses	中国还在建立冷链,冷藏卡车和仓库网络
71	that keep fruit and vegetables fresh on their journeys without the need for, say, formaldehyde.	使水果和蔬菜在旅途中保持新鲜而不需要,比如说,醛。
72	A recent government plan called for another 500 cold chain logistics centres over the	最近的一项政府计划呼吁,在加沙地带再建立500个冷链物流中心。
73	next five years, on top of the 1,000 already in place.	接下来的五年,在已经到位的1000人之外。
74	Such things all add to costs, though.	不过,这些都增加了成本。
75	Wealthier Chinese seem happy to shell out.	比较富有的中国人似乎很高兴抛锚。
76	Sam's Club, a members-only supermarket subsidiary of Walmart and American Chain, has expanded	Sam's Club是Walmart和美国连锁公司的独家超市子公司,已经扩大
77	rapidly in China on a promise of supplying safe food.	迅速在中国承诺提供安全食品。
78	Hema, a homegrown alternative set up by Alibaba, a tech giant, allows consumers to scan some	赫玛(Hema),由科技巨头阿里巴巴(Alibaba)建立的本土替代品,可以让消费者扫描一些
79	product barcodes to see chemical testing certificates and transport logs.	产品条码,以查看化学检测证书和运输记录。
80	But not everyone can afford to pay much more for their groceries.	但并不是每个人都能支付更多的杂货费。
81	To make food that is both pleasingly cheap and reliably safe, China will have to deal	要做到既便宜又可靠安全的食物,中国就必须交易
82	with deep-rooted problems.	有着根深蒂固的问题。
83	One is corporate culture.	一是企业文化.
84	Chinese companies often pride themselves on their speed to market, but that can also entail	中国公司往往以上市的速度为傲,但也有可能导致
85	a rushed approach to vetting suppliers and other safety precautions.	迅速审查供应商和其他安全预防措施。
86	Internal channels for reporting problems to management are often underdeveloped.	向管理层报告问题的内部渠道往往不发达。
87	The government is encouraging employees to report to officials instead.	政府鼓励雇员向官员报告。
88	In 2024, it announced bigger rewards for whistleblowers in the food industry, promising up to 5% of	2024年,它宣布对食品行业的吹哨人给予更大的奖励,承诺高达5%
89	the value of fines imposed in serious cases.	严重案件罚款的价值。
90	But official incentives are also warped, warns one Chinese expert on food safety.	但官方奖励也扭曲,警告一位中国食品安全专家.
91	To get promoted, grassroots officials have to nurture local industries and protect local	为了获得晋升,基层官员必须培育地方工业,保护地方工业。
92	jobs.	任务。
93	Both goals could be jeopardised by an overzealous focus on policing food.	这两项目标都可能因为过于热衷于维持粮食治安而受到危害。
94	Everyone is maintaining a tacit balance between safety and economic growth, he says.	他说,每个人都在安全和经济增长之间保持隐含的平衡。
95	Big scandals typically lead to investigations from higher levels of government, which will	大丑闻通常导致上级政府进行调查,这将
96	then unerringly fine some local scapegoats to punish.	然后对一些本地的替罪羊严加处罚
97	Mindful of this, local officials often prefer to deal with problems themselves or, if possible,	考虑到这一点,地方官员往往更愿意自己处理问题,或者在可能的情况下,
98	ignore them.	别理他们
99	In Kangbao, where GDP per person is about a third of Beijing's, farming represents	在康保,人均GDP约为北京的三分之一,农业代表
100	a substantial share of the economy.	经济的很大一部分。
101	Local officials are probably bracing for the fallout from the scandal.	当地官员可能正在为丑闻的后遗症而抱怨。
102	They are certainly keeping close tabs on the media.	他们肯定在密切监视媒体。
103	Shortly after this correspondent arrived in the county, four officers appeared in a police	这名记者到县里后不久四名警官出现在警察局
104	car followed by another clutch of officials from the propaganda bureau.	车尾还有宣传局的官员
105	They were eager to talk about the fine weather and a rare species of bird that breeds nearby.	他们热衷于谈论优美的天气和在附近繁殖的珍稀鸟类.
106	They did not, however, want to answer any questions about cabbages.	然而,他们不想回答任何有关小白菜的问题。

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