禁止死亡,禁止开黑色汽车,这些国家的禁令你知道多少?

2018-03-29 08:43:45  每日学英语

在一个国家是无伤大雅的事情,

但在另一个国家却可能让你深陷麻烦。

土库曼斯坦禁止开黑色汽车,

世界上某些国家禁止的东西真是让人大开眼界。

布隆迪禁止慢跑……

 

 

Dying - Svalbard, Norway

挪威斯瓦尔巴特群岛禁止死亡

 

 

 

禁令

 

朗伊尔城(Longyearbyen)位于挪威属地斯瓦尔巴群岛(Svalbard)的最大岛──斯匹次卑尔根岛。地处北纬78度,距离北极点只有1300千米,是世界上离北极最近的城市,被列入世界纪录。朗伊尔城是世界上唯一的一个判定死亡违法的城市。除非猝死,否则病人和年龄大的老人必须离开朗伊尔,去挪威的其他医院治疗和养老。而且,禁止人们生孩子,孕妇在临产前一个月也必须离开这里。

 

禁令

 

The law was brought into place in 1950, after it was found that buried bodies were not rotting, according to YouTube account Half as Interesting. Due to the extremely cold weather in the region, it means bodies are unable to decompose.

根据YouTube账号Half as Interesting,这个禁令是在20世纪50年代颁布的,因为当时发现被掩埋的尸体不会腐烂。因为这个地区的天气极其寒冷,这意味着尸体无法分解。

Jan Christian Meyer from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology explained the death ban: ’The reason for this is that the permanently frozen ground will not only tend to keep your buried remains from decomposing and push them to the surface, it may also perfectly preserve the disease that killed you, for locals to pick up later.

挪威科技大学的扬·克里斯蒂安·迈耶解释了这一禁令:“禁止死亡的原因在于,这种长年冻土不仅能让尸体不腐,还会将尸体推到地表,可能还会完美保存致死的病菌,以后传染给当地人。”

It is obviously not a punishable offence to die (after all, how would that be enforced?), but if you seem to be about to expire, every effort will be made to send you to the mainland. If you should die there anyway, you most certainly will not be buried there, because funerals don’t work the way they are supposed to.

显然死亡并不是可以被惩罚的罪过(毕竟,你要如何惩罚死人呢?),但如果有人命不久矣,就会不遗余力地将其送到大陆上去。如果实在要死在那里,也不会被埋在岛上,因为岛上的葬礼不按常规举行。

You can apply to have your cremated remains put into the ground, but it requires state approval. In other words, death is not illegal as such, but it is banned from the area.

你可以申请把骨灰埋进土里,但需要获得国家批准。换句话说,死亡不违法,但在该地区是被禁止的。

 

 

Black cars – Turkmenistan

土库曼斯坦禁止黑色汽车

 

 

 

禁令

 

从2018年1月起土库曼斯坦将禁止使用黑色汽车。这一新政导致汽车改色喷漆的价格翻了一番,以前是500美元,现在涨到了1000美元。

土库曼斯坦从2015年1月起禁止进口黑色汽车。当时,海关人员无法对这一禁令做出解释。对于人们的疑问和不满他们只能回答,必须购买白色汽车,因为“白色会带来好运”。

网传这一改革的原因只是因为该国总统库尔班古力·别尔德穆哈梅多夫的个人喜好。该总统甚至还颁布了一系列任性的法规:

把面包改成老妈的名字

尼亚佐夫同志的老妈叫“古尔邦苏丹”,他为纪念老妈,宣布以后全国管“面包”不叫 “面包”,而叫“老妈古尔邦苏丹”,哈哈哈。

国旗里放一块地毯

 

禁令

 

世界大多数国旗简单明了,土库曼斯坦的国旗实在是奇特,除了新月(伊斯兰)与五星(五个省)外,还在左侧挂了一块地毯,包含非常复杂的含义,好像是每个部落。

设立哈密瓜节

大概是尼亚佐夫同志喜欢吃哈密瓜的缘故,设立哈密瓜节为全国性节日。

 

 

Blowfish meat - Japan

日本禁吃河豚肉

 

 

 

禁令

 

Puffer fish - also called blowfish or fugu in Japanese - are the world’s most toxic group of fish and their livers, ovaries and skin contain tetrodotoxin, 100 times more lethal than cyanide. As such the emperor of Japan is forbidden to eat the delicacy for his own safety.

河豚是世界上毒性最大的鱼,它们的肝脏、卵巢和皮肤含有河豚毒素,致命性比氰化物大100倍。因此,出于人身安全考虑日本天皇是不能吃河豚肉的。

Timothy Takemoto, who describes himself as a ’British guy in Japan’ wrote on Quora: ’The emperor of Japan, but not the general population, is prohibited from eating the potentially highly poisonous blow-fish meat.

自称是“生活在日本的英国人”的蒂莫西·竹本在Quora上写道:“日本禁止天皇而非普通民众吃可能含有剧毒的河豚肉。”

‘Japanese citizens in general may eat blow-fish only when prepared by a qualified chef.’

“日本普通民众可以吃有资质的厨师处理过的河豚肉。”

 

 

Vacuum cleaners - Victoria, Australia

澳大利亚维多利亚州禁止用吸尘器

 

 

No one likes a noisy neighbour, but the state of Victoria in Australia has introduced a set of rules highlighting at what point during the day you can make noise, including dictating when you can vacuum.

没有人喜欢吵闹的邻居,但是澳大利亚维多利亚州出台了一系列法规,明确指出一天当中哪些时间段可以发出声音,还规定了用吸尘器的时间。

Sumit Gupta, Mumbai, India, said: ‘In Melbourne, Australia, vacuuming your house between 10 pm and 7 am during weekdays and 10 pm and 9 am during the weekends is against the law.’

印度孟买的萨米特·古皮塔说:“在澳大利亚墨尔本,工作日晚上10点至早上7点之间,以及周末晚上10点至早上9点之间在家里用吸尘器是违法的。”

 

 

Jogging - Burundi, East Africa

东非国家布隆迪禁止慢跑

 

 

 

禁令

 

在布隆迪有一项持续了十年的独特现象:成千上万人一起组团到街上边慢跑,边唱歌,边社交。有时候,他们也会在跑步的时候抗议总统。

But in March 2014, Pierre Nkurunziza - the president of the country, banned jogging based on the argument that people use the activity as a cover to plan subversive activities.

2014年3月,布隆迪总统皮埃尔恩库伦齐扎受到民众用慢跑作掩护来策划颠覆活动的言论影响,下令禁止慢跑。

So,在布隆迪这个小国度里你要是跑步的话可能会需要如下几个步骤:首先得加入个慢跑俱乐部,跟政府备案注册。接着,你要在九个可以跑步的地点当中选一个。这还不算完,警察可能还要问你几个问题:一起跑步的人有几个?什么时候开跑?把他们的名字告诉政府。

 

禁令

 

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