zh-cn	　　奉劝胡克斯特拉大使务点正业
en-us	A Kind Reminder to Ambassador Hoekstra: Mind Your Proper Duties

zh-cn	　　美国驻荷兰大使胡克斯特拉先生非常活跃，但似乎把精力用错了地方。
en-us	H.E. Mr. Pete Hoekstra, the US Ambassador to the Netherlands, is very active, but seems to be spending his energy in the wrong place.

zh-cn	　　稍有常识的人都知道，一国大使作为国家派往驻在国的全权代表，享有崇高地位，也负有重要职责。
en-us	Anyone with basic common sense knows that the Ambassador of a country, as the plenipotentiary representative of sending state to the receiving state, enjoys a lofty position and has important responsibilities. 

zh-cn	《维也纳外交关系公约》规定了大使馆的五大职责，包括代表派遣国、
en-us	The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations stipulates five functions of the Embassy, including representing the sending country,

zh-cn	保护本国公民、办理交涉、调研驻在国情况、促进本国与驻在国的友好关系。
en-us	 protecting its nationals, conducting negotiations, ascertaining the situation in the receiving country, and promoting friendly relations between the sending country and receiving country. 

zh-cn	其中没有任何一个字明示或默示赋予大使破坏驻在国与第三国关系的职能。
en-us	Among them not a single word expressly or implicitly entitled the Ambassador the function of undermining relations between the receiving country and a third country.

zh-cn	　　但胡克斯特拉大使不仅乐此不疲，而且似乎将此当成了自己的主业。
en-us	But Ambassador Hoekstra seems to enjoy doing such things and even takes it as his major task.

zh-cn	今天他在《共同日报》上发表的访谈再次印证了这一点。这篇文章的标题是：《美国大使怒斥中国：在处理新冠病毒问题上不诚实》。
en-us	The interview he published in Algemeen Dagblad today confirms this again. The title of the article is "US Ambassador Lashes Out at China: Not Honest about Coronavirus."

zh-cn	　　我们知道现在美国的疫情很严重，已经成为世界上确认感染人数最多的国家，
en-us	We know that the U.S. is very seriously hit by the pandemic and has become the country with the largest number of confirmed cases in the world.

zh-cn	我们对此表示关心，真诚希望美国疫情早日得到控制，这对全世界都有好处。
en-us	We are concerned about this and sincerely hope that the U.S. epidemic will be brought under control at an early date, which is good for the whole world.

zh-cn	在这个关键时刻，美国驻荷兰大使难道不也应该集中精力推动和参与抗疫国际合作吗？
en-us	At this critical moment, shouldn't the US Ambassador to the Netherlands also focus on promoting and participating in international cooperation in the fight against the pandemic?

zh-cn	难道挖空心思编造一些污蔑中国的谎言就能够让美国人民摆脱病毒扩散的威胁吗？
en-us	Would it be possible to keep American people from the threat of the spread of the virus by fabricating some lies that slander China?

zh-cn	　　我们来看看胡克斯特拉大使这篇文章里都有哪些奇谈怪论：
en-us	Let's take a look at some of the weird words by Ambassador Hoekstra in this article:

zh-cn	　　他说，中国提供的信息不透明、不全面，导致美国误判形势。
en-us	He said that the information provided by China was lack of transparency and inaccurate, which caused the United States to misjudge the situation.

zh-cn	事实是，中国去年12月底接到可疑病例报告，今年1月初就向世卫组织正式通报，并于1月12日与世卫组织及世界各国分享新冠病毒的全基因序列。
en-us	The fact is that China received the first suspicious case report at the end of December last year, and formally notified the WHO at the beginning of January this year, and shared the whole nucleic acid sequence of the novel coronavirus with WHO and countries around the world on January 12.

zh-cn	此后，中国每天更新数据，通报病毒极易传染、非常狡猾和危害很大的特性以及中方对于诊疗方法的探索，还邀请国际专家赴中国实地考察。
en-us	Since then, China has updated the data every day, notifying the virus's extremely contagious, very cunning and very harmful characteristics, and China's exploration of diagnosis and treatment methods. It also invited international experts to visit China on the spot.

zh-cn	世卫组织对中方的迅速、公开、透明和负责任的做法多次表示赞赏。
en-us	WHO has repeatedly appreciated China's rapid, open, transparent and responsible approach.

zh-cn	近日知名医学杂志《柳叶刀》主编理查德·霍顿也表示：“在1月的最后一个星期，我们就知道疫情会到来，中国疫情所传递出的信息非常清楚。”
en-us	Recently, Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the well-known medical journal The Lancet, also said: "We knew in the last week of January that this was coming. The message from China was absolutely clear, that a new virus, with pandemic potential, was hitting cities." 

zh-cn	我们是应该相信这些专家的说法，还是应该相信胡克斯特拉大使的说法呢？
en-us	Should we believe these experts or Ambassador Hoekstra?

zh-cn	　　如果美国真的不了解新冠疫情的严重性，
en-us	If the United States really does not understand the severity of the COVID-19 epidemic, 

zh-cn	为什么美国疾控中心于1月15日就发布关于新冠肺炎的警告？
en-us	why did the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issue a warning about the new corona virus on January 15th? 

zh-cn	为什么1月25日宣布关闭驻武汉总领馆并撤出人员？
en-us	Why on 25th of Jan US announced the closure of the Consulate General in Wuhan and the withdrawal of personnel? 

zh-cn	为什么2月2日对所有中国公民及过去14天内到过中国的外国人关闭边境？
en-us	Why was the border closed on February 2nd to all Chinese citizens and foreigners who have been to China in the past 14 days? 

zh-cn	要知道在采取这些措施的1个多月后，美国境内的疫情才开始大规模暴发。
en-us	It should be known that the outbreak in the United States began to take place more than a month after these measures were taken.

zh-cn	     他在文章中似乎想说，中国通报的确诊病例、死亡人数和致死率不真实，
en-us	It seems that in the article, he wants to express the view that the number of confirmed cases, death toll and mortality rate reported by the Chinese side were not true, 

zh-cn	而且排除美国科学家的参与，导致美国早期忽视了这一病毒的严重性，而意大利、西班牙的数据才是真实的。
en-us	and the participation of American scientists was excluded by the Chinese side, which led to the neglect of the severity of the virus in the U.S.in early stage, while the data reported by Italy and Spain were true.

zh-cn	他在这么说之前，为什么不去问问美国自己的科学家？美国许多医学杂志都有关于这个病毒的论文，而且我们还听说，
en-us	But why didn't he consult scientists in his own country before he said so? There are a lot of papers on the virus in many medical journals in the U.S. We also heard that not long ago, 

zh-cn	不久前美国首席医疗科学家福奇表示，他拒绝按照美方某些人的要求说中国应该提前3个月就向美国通报，因为那不符合事实。
en-us	Dr. Fauci, the top medical expert in the U.S., reportedly said he refused to let others push him to say that China should have warned the U.S. three months beforehand, because it just didn't comport with facts.

zh-cn	更重要的是，在过去三个月中国人民为了阻击疫情蔓延采取了多么严格的措施、经历了多么惨烈的战斗、作出了多么巨大的牺牲，
en-us	More importantly, in the past three months, the whole world has witnessed what strict measures China has taken, what a bitter fight the Chinese people have gone through, and what huge sacrifices have been made in order to stop the spread of the epidemic.

zh-cn	全世界都在为中国加油、为武汉加油。
en-us	The world is full of supportive wishes that "Stay Strong, China" "Stay Strong, Wuhan".

zh-cn	世卫组织专家组组长布鲁斯·艾尔沃德先生指出，正是由于中国采取了有力的干预措施，才避免了可能发生的数十万例感染。
en-us	Dr Bruce Aylward, foreign head of the China-WHO joint mission on COVID-19, said that "hundreds of thousands of Chinese people have benefited from the tremendous efforts" of China.

zh-cn	难道胡克斯特拉大使对这些真的视而不见、听而不闻？
en-us	Is Ambassador Hoekstra really turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to all the truth?

zh-cn	　　他还说，中国驱逐了一些美国记者，导致中国的疫情不能以客观透明的方式报道出去。
en-us	He also said that "American journalists were kicked out of China", the result of which is the epidemic in China was not reported in an objective and transparent way.

zh-cn	难道全世界只能通过美国记者才能了解真相吗？
en-us	Does he mean the world can only know about the truth through American journalists?

zh-cn	要知道现在有500多位外国记者包括荷兰一些主要媒体的记者在中国常驻报道。
en-us	Now there are more than 500 foreign journalists based in China, including journalists from some major Dutch media.

zh-cn	其实他并不是不知道，中国要求几位美国记者离境
en-us	 In fact, he should know very well that China's requirement for some American journalists to leave the country 

zh-cn	是对美国不久前变相驱逐60名中国记者的对等措施，与疫情没有丝毫关系。
en-us	is only a reciprocal countermeasure against the restrictive measures on Chinese media agencies in the US recently, which in effect expelled 60 Chinese journalists from the US. The countermeasure taken by China has nothing to do with the epidemic.

zh-cn	　　在被问到中国向欧洲疫情严重地区提供帮助的问题时，他竟然说，美国付钱给世卫组织，而中国毫无作为。
en-us	When being asked about China's aid to the severely affected areas in Europe, he even said that the U.S. is the one who pays to the WHO, while China "doesn't pay anything".

zh-cn	这真是让人啼笑皆非。美国在拖欠国际组织会费方面的记录举世皆知，它作为全球最大的经济体本该为人类多作贡献。
en-us	This is really ridiculous. The U.S. has a well-known record of arrears in the payment of contributions to international organizations. As the world's largest economy, the U.S. should have contributed much more to mankind.

zh-cn	中国还是一个发展中国家，无意与美国攀比，但从来都是认真履行国际组织成员国的义务。
en-us	China is still a developing country and has no intention to compare with the U.S., but China has always earnestly fulfilled the obligations as member state of international organizations.

zh-cn	作为世卫组织成员国，我们每年交纳会费5740多万美元，自愿捐款470多万美元。
en-us	As a member of the WHO, we pay contributions of over US$ 57.4 million and voluntary contributions of over US$ 4.7 million every year.

zh-cn	为抗击新冠疫情，中方还宣布向世卫组织提供2000万美元的额外捐款。
en-us	To combat the COVID-19 pandemic, China also announced an additional donation of $ 20 million to the WHO.

zh-cn	全球疫情暴发以来，中国政府和社会各界积极主动参与国际合作，主动向疫情严重国家（包括美国）提供大量支持和帮助，
en-us	Since the global outbreak of the COVID-19, the government and all walks of life of China have actively participated in international cooperation and proactively provided a lot of support to severely-hit countries (including the United States),

zh-cn	既提供物资支持，也分享抗疫经验，目的就是要本着人道主义精神，挽救更多的生命，维护全球公共卫生安全。
en-us	 not only with materials, but also anti-epidemic experiences. Our purpose is to save more lives and maintain global public health security in a humanitarian spirit.

zh-cn	胡克斯特拉大使把中国的这些贡献说成为疫情“承担责任”，不知道是基于什么逻辑。
en-us	Ambassador Hoekstra distorted these contributions of China into "taking responsibility" for the outbreak, which is totally unreasonable.

zh-cn	如果是想说美国不需要得到中国的合作，请直说无妨。
en-us	If he wants to deliver the message that the United States does not need China's cooperation, please speak up directly.

zh-cn	　　最让人感到滑稽的是，当被记者问到可以从中国经验中学到什么时，胡克斯特拉大使竟然回答：“可以让中国学习的是美国与欧洲如何合作应对这场危机。”
en-us	What is most absurd is that when being asked what others can learn from China's experience, Ambassador Hoekstra answered: "What China can learn is how well the United States and Europe are working together in this crisis." 

zh-cn	好吧，中国愿意以谦虚的态度向世界各国学习。美国有不少好的东西值得我们学习，但肯定不包括胡克斯特拉大使。
en-us	Well, China is willing to learn from other countries with humility. There are also a lot of good things in the United States we can learn from, but we will certainly not learn from people like Ambassador Hoekstra.

zh-cn	　　本文开头说胡克斯特拉大使对于诬蔑中国、破坏中荷关系乐此不疲，是有根据的。
en-us	At the beginning of this article, we say that Ambassador Hoekstra seems to enjoy slandering China and undermining Sino-Dutch relations. This is a fact-based conclusion.

zh-cn	我们浏览了他今年以来发的推特，中伤或影射中国的多达十余条。
en-us	We browsed all tweets he posted since January, among which more than a dozen are vilifying or negatively suggestive to China.

zh-cn	这还不包括他在电视和报纸等媒体、社交活动等场合的言论，有的甚至以赤裸裸的语言对东道国内政指手画脚。
en-us	He also made such remarks on television and newspapers, and on other social occasions. Some of his remarks even use blunt words to coach host country on its domestic policies.

zh-cn	人们只是不明白，他这么做究竟是由于他的个人水平和风格，还是由于遵循华盛顿的指示？
en-us	People just don't understand whether he did it because of his personal professionalism and style, or following Washington's instructions?

zh-cn	　　我们不得不指出，中国了解美荷之间的特殊关系，从来不为发展中荷关系妨碍荷兰与美国的关系。
en-us	We have to point out that China understands the special relationship between the United States and the Netherlands and has never developed Sino-Dutch relations through hindering the relationship between the Netherlands and the United States. 

zh-cn	不同制度的国家和平共处一直都是中国外交的基本原则。
en-us	The peaceful coexistence of countries with different systems has always been a basic principle of Chinese diplomacy. 

zh-cn	如果胡克斯特拉大使认为只有靠破坏中荷关系才能维系美荷关系，
en-us	If Ambassador Hoekstra thinks that the relationship between the United States and the Netherlands can only be maintained by destroying the relationship between China and the Netherlands, 

zh-cn	那岂不是对美荷关系的基础太缺乏自信？
en-us	isn't it too unconfident about the foundation of the relationship between the United States and the Netherlands? 

zh-cn	我们善意地建议胡克斯特拉大使，今后在发表涉及中国的评论前最好先做做功课，
en-us	We kindly suggest Ambassador Hoekstra doing his homework before openly comments on China, including clarifying the basic facts, 

zh-cn	包括把基本事实搞清楚，同时也认真研读一下国际法特别是《维也纳外交关系公约》。
en-us	and also carefully studying international law, especially the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.