3月12日,美国HBO电视台脱口秀《马厄脱口秀》主持人比尔·马厄(Bill Maher)在其最新一期节目中开启了吐槽模式,把中国和美国的现状诠释的淋漓尽致。
比尔·马厄是美国著名喜剧演员,电视节目主持人,社会时事评论员。现为HBO电视台政论类节目《马厄脱口秀》主持人。
马厄认为:“美国现在已经输给了中国,只是差距还没显现出来。”Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," criticized the U.S. on March 12 by comparing the country's current situation with that in China.
Maher said: "We're not losing to China. We lost. The returns just haven't all come in yet."
在节目中,他戏谑地称美国人为“愚蠢”的人,并从多方面对比中美两国,重点列举了中美两国在基础建设方面的差异。马厄表示,中国在两代人的时间里新建了500座城市,让大量人口摆脱了贫困,跨入中产阶级大门,占据了5G技术和医药行业市场。此外,他还表示,中国的“一带一路”倡议是历史上最大的基础设施建设项目。该倡议不仅投资了非洲大陆,也覆盖了亚洲、欧洲和中东的大部分地区,为人们建造公路桥梁和港口。马厄还用一种“不得不接受现实”的表情说:如果你现在想要去世界其它地方,最好带些人民币。During the show, he jokingly said that "Americans are a silly people" and compared China and the U.S. in many ways, highlighting differences in infrastructure.
"In two generations, China has built 500 entire cities from scratch, moved the majority of their huge population from poverty to the middle class, and mostly cornered the market in 5G and pharmaceuticals," Maher said, pointing to China's global Silk Road infrastructure initiative.
他以中国国内建造了4万公里的高铁为例讽刺美国的不作为,并嘲讽地表示:“美国速度最快的火车就是动物园小火车。”他继续挖苦美国政府,一针见血地指出,美国不是不想而是做不到。“加州想要建造连接全州的高速铁路网,但是做不到,即使完成连接地区中心城市贝克斯菲尔德和默塞德那一小段高铁,就欠债了60亿美元。”随后,他给予美国观众一个及时又清醒的告诫,也是一个重要的结论,美国看到问题后选择视若无睹或撒谎、隐瞒、争论不休,而中国看到问题后就采取行动解决问题。 "We see a problem and we ignore it, lie about it, fight about it, endlessly litigate it, sunset clause it, kick it down the road, and then write a bill where a half-assed solution doesn't kick in for 10 years," Maher explained. "China sees a problem and they fix it. They build a dam. We debate what to rename it."
他用鲜活的例子证明了他言论的正确性,中国在修建水坝,而美国却在争论给它重新改个什么名字。在旧金山花了10年才让两条公交线路通过环评,波士顿的一条隧道花了16年才建成。然而,中国一直在创造建造奇迹,曾经在19天内就建成了一幢57层高的摩天大楼,在43个小时内将北京的三元桥拆掉又重新建好。他还指出中国很快就控制住了新冠肺炎疫情,而美国人仍然困在家里。武汉暴发新冠肺炎疫情时,武汉市10天内就建好了一个有4000间病房的隔离中心,隔离中心几乎不需要使用,因为他们迅速控制住了新冠疫情。
When COVID hit Wuhan, the city built a quarantine center with 4,000 rooms in 10 days and they barely had to use it because they quickly arrested the spread of the disease.
对于马厄的这一番言论,中国网友表示:别造谣,我们还是发展中国家也有网友表示很欣赏美国的自嘲,并表示在一定程度上马厄所说的是事实。Maher's video has attracted a lot of attention from netizens. Some have said that China has never wanted to surpass any countries, only to become better itself.
这就是中国速度!连续奋战80小时后,千套集成房已交付
除夕夜,他们在全世界的注视下,与时间赛跑