澳總理"力挺"末日論 盼人民戰鬥到底
According to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the Mayans were right and the apocalypse is near.
日前，澳大利亞總理茱莉亞-吉拉德錄製了一段視頻，在其中表示：瑪雅人的預言是真的，世界末日即將來臨！
In a spoof 50-second video appearance promoting a local radio station's breakfast show, Gillard provided hair-raising details that she said would come when the world ends this month, as the ancient Mayans calendar predicted.
在這段50秒鐘的搞笑視頻中，吉拉德告訴了大家一些自己認爲即將在本月月末的世界末日發生的令人恐懼的細節。有些人認爲古老的瑪雅曆法預言了世界末日的來臨。這段視頻是爲推廣當地一家電臺的早間節目錄制的。
With the straight face she often uses in a normal press conference, and surrounded by Australian national flags, Gillard addressed viewers as "My dear remaining fellow Australians."
她在視頻中和平時召開記者發佈會時一樣表情嚴肅，身邊插着數面澳大利亞國旗。吉拉德稱呼觀衆爲“我親愛的澳大利亞倖存同胞們”。
"The end of world is coming. It wasn't Y2K, it wasn't even the carbon price," said Gillard firmly. "It turns out that the Mayan calendar is true."
吉拉德堅定地說：“世界末日就要來了。不是千禧危機，也不是碳稅，瑪雅曆法是真實的。”
Y2K was the computer glitch feared globally just before the year 2000, while the carbon tax refers to a major controversial policy put forward by her Labour government in 2012.
千禧危機是指2000年之前出現的全球性計算機故障恐慌，碳稅是指2012年以她爲首的工黨政府提出的一項有爭議的政策。
She went into terrifying details about the end of the world such as "flesh-eating zombies" and "demonic hell beasts", but then wooed her constituents with promises.
接着，她還描述了世界末日有可能出現的恐怖細節，比如“食人殭屍”、“惡魔怪獸”等等，但之後也做出了承諾。
"If you know one thing about me it is this: I will always fight for you to the very end," she said, but noted that there is also a bright spot.
“如果你對我有所瞭解的話，那就是，我會一直爲你們戰鬥到底。”但她指出也有令人高興的一面。
"At least this means I won't have to do Q&A again," she said, referring to an Australian TV show where politicians usually have to face tough questions from the audience.
她說：“至少這意味着我將不用再去參加質詢了。”她指的是參加一檔電視臺節目時，政客經常要回答觀衆提出的尖刻問題。
A spokesman for Gillard said the video, which was uploaded by radio station Triple J on Thursday and has already been viewed more than 232,000 times on YouTube, was simply a spoof.
吉拉德的一名發言人說，這只是一段搞笑視頻。這段視頻在本週四由電臺“三J晨間秀”節目上傳到網上，在YouTube視頻網站上點擊量已經超過23.2萬次。
"It's just bit of fun," he told the reporters. "It's just a bit of humor for the end of the year. Nothing else."
他告訴記者：“這只是爲了有趣。只是末日幽默。沒有別的意思。”
The video comes out in the wake of a phone hoax in which two Australian presenters from another local radio station called the hospital which is treating Prince William's wife Kate and posed as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles to ask questions about her condition.
在這段視頻發佈之前，來自另一家地方電臺的兩名澳大利亞主持人致電凱特王妃就診的醫院，假裝伊麗莎白女王和查爾斯王儲，詢問有關凱特王妃的情況。
