"Principal, get a room with me. Leave the young students alone."Goes Viral in China

"校长，开房找我，放过孩子"火遍中国

leave sb\sth alone:不打扰；不干涉（此为可译”放过“） to go viral：某事（像病毒般）被广泛传播

eg：Phony information now have the ability to go viral through Internet as well.

如今，通过互联网，虚假消息也能够被广泛传播y^1HQior]kgupg。

May 27, women's rights activist Ye Haiyan protested with a sign in her hands in front of Hainan

Wanning City No.2 Elementary School, where the school's principal, Chen Moupeng, has been sued for

taking 6 elementary school girls to a hotel. Ye Haiyan’s protest has set up a wave of imitators,

with quite a few netizens one after another taking photos with signs in their hands and posting

them online, asking school principals to come “get a room” with them, and spare the elementary

schoolchildren.

5月27日，女权工作者叶海燕在海南万宁市第二小学门口举牌抗议，此前该校校长陈某鹏，因带6名小学女生开房被诉n|mWO#rE5,@Z*%。叶海燕的抗议掀起效仿热潮，不少网民纷纷举牌拍照后上传网络，要校长来找他们'开房'，放过小学生sjDtgQV6]D。

a wave of : 一批,一波（eg: a wave of applause 掌声如潮） imitator：模仿者

quite a few：相当多的

Big man always got quite a few followers and imitators.大人物一般都有不少追随者和模仿者C*cZn@wzyKmOVe。

one after another：一个接一个；相继地 (eg：The tasks came to us one after another.)

注：spare 可译为饶恕，能替代上面的leave sb alone，但是没有后者那样对坏人有命令、警示的语气G[~D[T~dC8。

The online campaign — mixing performance art, satire and outrage — has tapped into public anger

over sexual abuse against children. It's a problem in China partly because of a lack of sex education

and partly because Chinese society has become unmoored from traditional strictures after decades of

rapid economic and social change.

此次的"线上运动",糅合了行为艺术、讽刺的手法和愤慨的情绪，利用了民众对于儿童遭受性侵，这类事件的愤怒iX_*RWI37U3FlaE#tT*。这在中国成为难题的原因，一部分是由于性教育的缺乏，另一部分是由于在几十载的经济腾飞和社会变化后，中国社会已经逐渐摆脱了思想保守的束缚A4|9C=d4,usk*nnXm^#2。

satire：讽刺；讽刺作品（同义语：sarcasm\irony） tap into 有两种意思：

1. To establish a connection with; have access to: tapped into a new market for their

products

2. To take advantage of: tapped into their enthusiasm to improve the school.

unmoor：拔锚 stricture：狭窄；约束

Sociologist Li Yinhe sees the offers as a public statement. "I think it's a way for people to express

their anger," she said. "It is also a kind of black humor."

社会学家李银河认为，"求开房"是社会大众的一次公开申明s8[hn51k6!9So1|。她说："我认为，这是人们表达自己愤怒的一种方式，也是一

种黑色幽默."

注：offer 本身意思是“提供“，在此代指的是人们举牌表示愿意开房的主动请求gbPOS)qV;SA-i=_。英文中常用代词来简化文章，翻译时如有需要，得补充说明清楚=4HYS3M._vavID。