纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英No Your Honor You Cant Call Yourself High Justice on the Ballot in Chinese
February 20, 2024 2 min 283 words
这篇报道涉及一位法官试图在选票上使用“高法官”头衔，引发了社会广泛关注。这种行为既令人惊讶又令人担忧，凸显了权力滥用的问题。法官应当以公正、中立的形象示人，而不是通过炫耀头衔来获取选民支持。报道揭示了制度内的一些潜在问题，需要对法官的行为规范和选举程序进行更严格的监管。这种行为不仅仅是个案问题，更反映了司法系统中一些不完善的方面。对于法治社会而言，维护司法的独立性和公正性至关重要，此事件提醒我们需要对法律体系进行更深入的审视和改进。
Hong Le still remembers meeting a charismatic woman campaigning for San Francisco district attorney in 2003. In Cantonese, that woman’s name was 賀錦麗, which is pronounced Ho Gam-lai and means “Congratulate Brocade Beautiful.”
Most Americans know her by another name: Kamala Harris.
“She’s the vice president right now,” Mr. Le, 88, said in Cantonese. “And she deserves it.”
In San Francisco, where more than a fifth of residents are of Chinese descent, politicians have long taken a second name in Chinese characters. And any serious candidate knows to order campaign materials in English and in Chinese.
But the city’s leniency for adopted names has frustrated some Chinese American candidates, who say that non-Chinese rivals have gone overboard by using flattering, flowery phrases that at first glance have little to do with their actual names. Some candidates have gained an advantage or engaged in cultural appropriation, the critics say.
No more. For the first time, San Francisco has rejected Chinese names submitted by 22 candidates, in most cases because they could not prove they had used the names for at least two years. The city has asked translators to furnish names that are transliterated, a process that more closely approximates English pronunciations.