今年3月2日在波蘭城市普洛克一場支持LGBT倡議人士的集會上，一名出席者扛著一面彩虹旗。（路透檔案照）
◎張沛元
When Krasnik councilors adopted a resolution two years ago declaring their small town in southeastern Poland “free of L.G.B.T.,” the mayor didn’t see much harm in what appeared to be a symbolic and legally pointless gesture.
當波蘭東南部小鎮克拉希尼克的民意代表2年前通過一項決議案，宣布該鎮為男女同性戀、雙性戀與跨性別者的禁地後，鎮長並不覺得這個顯然僅具象徵性、法律層面而言沒啥意義的舉動，有什麼大不了的。
Today, he’s scrambling to contain the damage.
而今，他卻忙著控制（此舉所帶來的）傷害。
It has jeopardized millions of dollars in foreign funding and, Mayor Wojciech Wilk said, turned “our town into a synonym for homophobia,” which he insisted was not accurate.
鎮長威爾克說，這已危及數百萬美元外資，讓「該鎮淪為恐同的同義詞」—他堅稱這種說法並不正確。
A French town last year severed a partnership with Krasnik in protest. And Norway, from which the mayor had hoped to get nearly $10 million starting this year to finance development projects, said in September that it would not give grants to any Polish town that declares itself “free of L.G.B.T.”
法國一座城鎮去年斷絕與克拉希尼克的夥伴關係，以示抗議。至於（克鎮）鎮長原盼能自今年起取得近1000萬美元發展計畫資金的挪威，則在去年9月表示，不會提供經費給任何自封為LGBT禁地的波蘭城鎮。
新聞辭典
free of something：片語，使擺脫…，免於…，沒有…。例句：The newly appointed chief of executive vowed to build a workplace free of racial discrimination.（新任命的執行長誓言打造一個無歧視的工作環境。）
pay a/the price：慣用語，付出代價。例句：He will definitely pay the price for cheating on his wife for such a long time.（他終究會為多年外遇而付出代價。）
sever：動詞，切斷，割斷，斷絕，使分離。
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