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Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama criticised Russia’s President Vladimir Putin as “self-centred” in a German newspaper interview Sunday, saying Putin seems to want to “rebuild the Berlin Wall”.
西藏流亡精神領袖達賴喇嘛在週日一份德國報紙專訪中，批評俄羅斯總統普廷「自我中心」，他說普廷似乎想「重建柏林圍牆」。
“His attitude is: ’I, I, I’,” the Dalai Lama said, pointing out that Putin had served as Russian president, then prime minister and then president again. “That’s a bit too much,” he told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. “This is very self-centred.”
「他的態度是『我，我，我』，」達賴喇嘛說。並指出普廷此前已擔任過俄國總統，接著出任總理，然後再度擔任總統，「那有點過份了，」他告訴「週日世界報」︰「這非常自我中心。」
The Buddhist leader also had more criticism for Russia, now in the worst standoff with the West since the Cold War, than for China, which has ruled Tibet since its 1950 invasion.
對於目前與西方陷入自冷戰以來最嚴重僵持的俄國，這位佛教領袖的批評也更甚於自1950年入侵以來統治西藏的中國。
“China and Russia, these are two very different cases,” said the Dalai Lama, voicing hope that “the modern world supports China becoming a democratic country”.
「中國與俄國是兩個迥異的案例，」達賴喇嘛說，表達出「現代世界支持中國成為民主國家」的希望。
“China wants to be part of the global political system and will be ready to accept the international rules in the long run,” he said. “I don’t have the impression that this accounts for Russia and President Putin, as well, at the moment.
「中國想要成為全球政治體系的一部分，終究將準備接受國際規則，」他說。「我對俄國與普廷總統此刻沒有這樣的觀感。」
“We had become accustomed (to the fact) that the Berlin Wall has fallen,” he said, alluding to the shattering of the Communist bloc begun 25 years ago. ” Now President Putin seems to want to rebuild it. But he is hurting his own country by doing this. Isolation is suicide for Russia.”（AFP）
「我們已經對柏林圍牆倒塌變得習以為常，」他說，提及25年前開始的共黨陣營崩解。「現在普廷總統似乎想要重建它。然而，他這麼做傷害的是自己的國家。孤立對俄國而言是自殺。」（法新社）
新聞辭典
self-centred：形容詞，自我中心的、自我本位的、自私自利的。例句：She is quite self-centred.（她相當自我中心。）
become accustomed to：片語，對…變得習以為常。例句：I’ve become accustomed to staying up late.（我對晚睡習以為常了。）
allude (to)：動詞，暗指、略提、提及。例句：Do not ask him about his failure; do not even allude to it.（別問他有關他失敗的事，連提都不要提。）
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