昨天看《经济学人》讲中国海军的一篇文章，里面有句话，挺有韵味的。摘录下来奇文共欣赏。
The contrast between the display of such weaponry and China’s rhetoric about harmony he calls “a bit of schizophrenia”.
——《经济学人》，2009年4月23号。
展示这样的武器与中国式修辞‘和谐’，对比鲜明，这看起来有点精神分裂症。
我不得不说老外凶猛，我欣赏这样的可爱与直率。
如果你是自称爱国的愤怒青年，请放松点。
另外里面有许多武器的名称，相信热爱军事的男同胞们必定会有兴趣一窥究竟，闲话休表，上正文先。
China's navy
Distant horizons
Apr 23rd 2009 | QINGDAO
From The Economist print edition
China flaunts its naval muscle
标题：中国炫耀其海军实力。
（PS：读出来没，你看英国人是不是有点酸溜溜的味道）
WITH an unprecedented display of its rapidly growing naval armoury, China has flaunted its ambitions as a global power. To mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), Chinese leaders on April 23rd reviewed a maritime parade of hardware ranging from nuclear submarines to amphibious assault-craft and fighter bombers. The only missing ingredient of naval might was an aircraft-carrier. Officials hint it will not be long before China has some of these too.
Armoury：兵工厂 maritime parade 海上检阅
nuclear submarine 核潜艇 amphibious assault-craft 两栖攻击舰
fighter bombers 战斗机轰炸机 aircraft-carrier 航空母舰

Ten years ago, the PLAN’s 50th anniversary slipped by with little more than a few commemorative stamps and plenty of bunting. But the past decade has seen the fruits of a huge military modernisation and expansion programme, launched after tensions mounted in the Taiwan Strait in 1995 and 1996. This has included the purchase of billions of dollars worth of Russian naval hardware, and the deployment of homemade ships, submarines and missiles. The build-up has sent ripples of unease across China’s neighbourhood.
Deployment 部署，调配 homemade ship 自制舰船
Ripple 涟漪

China was anxious lest the parade, in the port city of Qingdao, sent too scary a message. It invited foreign navies to take part too, including America’s 7th Fleet, which sent a guided-missile destroyer, the USS Fitzgerald. The official theme of the show was “harmonious ocean”. China’s neighbours wish it were so. China disputes its sea borders with several countries, most heatedly with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Of the five floating vessels at Qingdao’s naval history museum, two were involved in the sinking of a Vietnamese ship during a skirmish in the South China Sea in 1988.
America’s 7th Fleet 美国第七舰队 sea border 海洋边界
guided-missile destroyer 导弹制导驱逐舰
skirmish 小冲突

The deployment of two American aircraft-carriers near Taiwan during a crisis in relations in 1996 troubled China’s leaders. Its military build-up, including the naval expansion, seemed primarily aimed at deterring any future American intervention over Taiwan. In the past few years, cross-strait tensions have eased, most markedly since the election last year of a more China-friendly Taiwanese president, Ma Ying-jeou. But the huge increase in its demand for foreign oil and other resources means China is now thinking more about how to protect its more distant supply lines.
build-up 积累 deter 制止，断…念想

As it happens, these lines traverse the disputed South China Sea, almost all of which China claims, but where it has lacked the ability to project naval power. China is coy about its naval strategy, but in March the Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military capability argued it could be trying to develop the ability to “hold surface ships at risk” out to a second island chain (see map), far beyond the first chain, which encompasses claimed offshore territories including the South China Sea. The second chain reaches Guam, where America has a big military presence.
Traverse 横贯 project naval power 投送海军兵力
Guam 关岛

Some of the new weaponry on display in Qingdao suggested that projecting power is becoming a bigger priority for China. Among the vessels inspected by President Hu Jintao from on board a Chinese-made destroyer were two nuclear-powered submarines. China’s official press identified them as a Xia-class ballistic-missile submarine and a Han-class attack submarine. These are not China’s very latest models, but showing them at all was rare.
China is coy about its submarines. Foreign military officials attending the regatta toured a Song-class diesel-electric submarine. The Song has been in use since the 1990s, but it was the first time that some of these officials, despite repeated requests, had been allowed inside one. China has said nothing about its new Jin-class submarines armed with long-range nuclear missiles. The Pentagon reported that the first of these had been deployed.
official press 官方新闻界 ballistic-missile 弹道导弹
attack submarine 攻击潜艇
diesel-electric submarine 柴电潜艇
long-range nuclear missiles 远程核弹

The Qingdao review did include an interesting addition to China’s fleet, a Yuzhao-class amphibious-assault ship, which could be used to dispatch troops and helicopters over long distances. One Western diplomat says he sees its deployment as potentially useful for settling scores in the South China Sea. The contrast between the display of such weaponry and China’s rhetoric about harmony he calls “a bit of schizophrenia”. China’s self-image as a responsible great power was also on show, however, with a large new hospital ship, useful for humanitarian missions. Three vessels have just completed an anti-piracy tour in the Gulf of Aden. This continuing mission is China’s first active naval deployment beyond the Pacific.
Rhetoric 修辞 schizophrenia 精神分裂症
a responsible great power 负责任的大国
humanitarian 人道主义的
anti-piracy tour in the Gulf of Aden 亚丁湾反海盗航程

Chinese leaders chose not to spoil the jolly mood in Qingdao by talking about aircraft carriers. But officials have dropped several recent hints that China is close to announcing it will acquire its first one. Admiral Gary Roughead, the American navy’s highest-ranking officer, told reporters in Qingdao that “it may cause concern” among navies in the region if China failed to make clear how it planned to use a carrier. But since such a ship would be of limited use in coastal defence, coming clean might cause even more concern.
现在暂无耐心翻译整篇文章与读者共享，再说吧。