【读新闻学英语】澳大利亚再现种族歧视：亚洲人滚出！

The owner of a gelato shop in Melbourne has slammed the "racist coward" who left him and his wife disturbing note with a racist slur.

在墨尔本，一对经营意式冰淇淋店的夫妇收到一张种族歧视的骚扰纸条。对于始作俑者，店主斥其为“种族主义懦夫”。

Coward：懦夫

Slur：诽谤

When Andrew arrived at his Paradise Gelato store in Cheltenham on Monday he noticed that a small note had been slipped under the door.

周一，当Andrew来到他位于Cheltenham的天堂冰淇淋店时，注意到有人从门缝下塞进来一张小纸条。

Slip：滑动，塞入。

He quickly realised the disgusting letter was targeted at his fiance Joyce, who is of Asian descent.

他立马意识到这封来者不善的信是针对自己的未婚夫——拥有亚洲血统的Joyce。

Fiancé：未婚夫

Descent：血统

"Asian Gelato. No way, go back to where you came from slopeheads," the note read.

纸条上写着：“亚洲Gelato，没门儿！滚回你们亚洲佬的地方。”

Slopehead：美国俚语，对亚洲人（尤其是越南人）轻蔑性的称呼。

Andrew posted a photo of the note to Facebook, calling out the scumbag who wrote it.

Andrew将纸条拍照发到Facebook上，对卑鄙的始作俑者喊话。

Scumbag：卑鄙的人

"This morning we received our very first love letter from a racist coward," he wrote.

他写道：“今早我们收到一位种族主义懦夫发来的情书，”

"School yourself before you drop off a note like this in our shop! The Asians who work here, one of them is a volunteer teaching assistant who wants to teach English in Japan and the other speaks 7 languages and can communicate with 70% of the world, what have you done with your life?

“来店里递纸条前请先回去好好接受教育！这里的亚洲员工中，有一人是想在日本教授英语的志愿助教，另一人可以讲7国语言，能够和世界上70%的人沟通。可是你对自己的生活又做了什么？”

Drop off：放到，减少，睡着。

"If it offends you so much, kindly don't come in, it's as simple as that. No need to spread hate!"

“如果这冒犯到你，那请你再也不用光临。事情就这么简单，散播仇恨毫无必要。”

Offend：冒犯

The note was reportedly given to the police.

据悉，该纸条已被转交给警方。

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