美籍在华专家：逃离阴影日本需就南京大屠杀真心致歉_BEC初级作文

美籍在华专家：逃离阴影日本需就南京大屠杀真心致歉

英文《中国日报》12月13日刊登美籍记者兰迪•赖特（Randy Wright）撰写的文章《反思南京大屠杀：逃离阴影》，文中痛斥日本二战时在南京犯下的滔天暴行，呼吁日本向德国学习，承认错误向中国真心致歉。

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It's with a somber heart that I find myself today contemplating the 80th anniversary of the infamous rape and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Chinese in Nanjing by invading Japanese troops in the winter of 1937-38.

12月13日是中国南京大屠杀死难者国家公祭日。回想80年前，侵华日军攻占南京并对几十万无辜的中国老百姓犯下屠杀、奸淫等血腥暴行，我的心情十分悲痛。

美籍在华专家：逃离阴影日本需就南京大屠杀真心致歉1

That collective atrocity - made up of thousands of individual atrocities committed over several weeks - shows at a breathtaking scale the nature of the beast at the heart of the human race and the danger of unchaining it. The Nanjing Massacre is among the ugliest incidents in world history, though far from unique in its depravity.

南京大屠杀是一起集体暴行，侵华日军在长达数周的时间里犯下数不清的暴行。这一惨绝人寰的事件以惊人的规模展现出人类内心隐藏的兽性以及放任兽性发展的恐怖。南京大屠杀是人类历史上最丑陋的事件之一，充斥着人性的邪恶。

I never served in uniform (an unfortunate gap in my life's experience), nor in combat. Yet my years of reading military history have taught me something of the horrors of war, the greed of nations, of man's inhumanity to man, the fragility of peace and the value of life. And the cycle continues.