Raul Castro spent the lion’s share of a prominent speech scolding his countrymen for all kinds of bad behavior — everything from corruption and theft to public urination and the odoriferous practice of raising pigs in cities.
Speaking before legislators at one of parliament’s twice-annual sessions, the Cuban president railed against decaying morals, a deteriorating sense of civic responsibility and vanishing values like honor, decency and decorum. Castro aired a laundry list of complaints about illegal activities that he said do the country harm — unauthorized home construction, illicit logging and slaughter of livestock and the acceptance of bribes, to name a few.
He also fulminated against baser examples of “social indiscipline” — shouting and swearing in the streets, public drinking and drunk driving, dumping trash on the roadside and even people who relieve themselves in parks.
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At times, the 82-year-old’s speech sounded like a generational broadside against disrespectful youth who do as they please, a diatribe that could have crossed the lips of many a grandfather.
(AP)
拉伍．卡斯楚在一場重要演說中，把大部分時間都花在痛批古巴人民的各種不良行為，從貪污、偷竊到在公共場所小便，以及在城市裡養豬引起惡臭等無所不包。
在國會每年兩次的議程開始前對國會議員發表演說時，這位古巴總統批評國民道德淪喪，公德心下降，榮譽、規矩和莊重等價值日漸消失。卡斯楚還舉出一長串他認為有損國家發展的不法行為清單：非法興建民宅、盜伐山林、非法屠宰牲畜及接受賄賂等，這還只是其中一小部分而已。
他同時也嚴厲斥責某些「社會失序」的不良範例，如在街頭喊叫或罵人，公然飲酒和酒後駕車，在路邊亂倒垃圾，甚至在公園裡小便等。
有時這位高齡八十二歲的總統演說聽起來像是長輩在痛批我行我素、目無尊長的年輕人，就像許多阿公在罵自家小輩時一樣。
（美聯社／翻譯：俞智敏）
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