Olympic torch protests hit San Francisco
火炬传递在旧金山遭到藏独分子严重破坏
 
Pro-Tibet campaigners have marched through San Francisco ahead of the controversial Olympic torch relay.
在备受关注的北京奥运火炬传递之前，藏独分子在整个旧金山进行了藏独示威游行。
 
Hollywood stars Richard Gere and Daryl Hannah were among the protestors who gathered before the flame is carried through the city during its only US stop.
当奥运圣火准备在美国唯一的一站进行传递时，好莱坞巨星理察?基尔和达瑞尔?汉娜也加入到反抗行列中来。
 
They were among several hundred people demonstrating against China's crackdown in Tibet. The protests followed chaotic scenes during torch processions in London and Paris.
他们掺和在上百人的游行队伍中，反对中国对西藏的“镇压”。之前，在伦敦和巴黎的火炬传递中出现过示威引起的混乱局面。
 
Buddhist monks and their supporters took part in what they described as a "Tibetan Freedom March". The marchers carried a "Tibet Freedom Torch" as a symbolic alternative to the official Olympic flame.
这些“佛教徒”和他们的支持者手持“西藏自由火炬”，而不是北京奥运火炬，声称这次游行是“西藏自由游行”。
 
Protesters chanted "Free Tibet" and "Stop the Killing" as they marched through downtown San Francisco.
当这些示威者穿过旧金山市中心时，呼喊着“西藏自由”，“停止屠杀”
 
Police were out in large numbers and escorted the marchers as they gathered at the Chinese Consulate building in San Francisco where they demonstrated loudly.
在火炬经过旧金山的中国领事馆时，游行示威变得越发猛烈，大批警察出动来护送火炬。
 
The Olympic torch arrived in the city amid heavy security as International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said the body's executive board would discuss on Friday whether to end the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay because of widespread protests.
火炬是在大批警力的护送下抵达旧金山的。鉴于大范围的示威游行，国际奥委会主席罗格表示奥委会将在星期五讨论是否有必要中止北京奥运会火炬在全球范围内的传递。
 
The torch's global journey was supposed to highlight China's growing economic and political power.
奥运火炬在全球范围内的传递，本该是展示中国经济和政治成就的一次绝好机会。
 
But activists opposing China's human rights policies and a recent crackdown on Tibet have been protesting along the torch's 85,000-mile route since the start of the flame's odyssey from Ancient Olympia in Greece to Beijing, host of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
但是自从奥运火炬开始其从奥林匹亚山到北京—2008奥运会主办城市——的漫长旅途时候，游行示威者就没有间断，以此来反对中国的人权政策和最近对西藏的一次“镇压”。
 
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