【2月16日】看軍聞學英語

■林國賓

原文：

Two U.S. naval vessels transited the Taiwan Strait last Friday and Saturday, marking the first such passage by American naval ships this year.

The transit by the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) and the Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS 65) was confirmed by the U.S. 7th Fleet in a statement that USNI News cited in its report published on Jan. 17.

The statement said "USS John Finn (DDG 113) and Pathfinder-class survey ship USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS 65) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Jan. 16 to 17 (local time) through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law."

"The ships transited through a corridor in the Strait that is beyond the territorial sea of any coastal state," indicating that the international community's navigational rights and freedoms in the Strait should not be limited, the statement said.

It was the second time during U.S. President Donald Trump's second term that a U.S. Navy transit of the Taiwan Strait featured a destroyer sailing in tandem with a survey ship.

中譯：

兩艘美國海軍軍艦上週五、六通過臺灣海峽，為美國海軍艦艇今年首次穿越該水道。

《美國海軍學會新聞》1月17日在報導中刊登美國海軍第7艦隊一份聲明，證實穿越臺海的是勃克級飛彈驅逐艦「芬恩號」（DDG 113），以及探路者級海洋測量船「瑪麗西爾斯號」（T-AGS 65）。

聲明指出：「芬恩號飛彈驅逐艦與探路者級測量船瑪麗西爾斯號，於1月16至17日（當地時間）例行通過臺灣海峽，航行於依據國際法適用的公海航行與飛越自由的水域。」

聲明並表示，這兩艘艦艇是「通過海峽中不屬於任何沿岸國領海範圍的水道航行」，彰顯國際社會在臺灣海峽享有的航行權利與自由不應受到限制。

這也是美國總統川普第2任期內，第2次出現美國海軍以驅逐艦與測量船並行方式通過臺灣海峽。

-關鍵軍語-

※transit：通過；穿越

※territorial sea：領海