seppuku

seppuku

1. "If I were Japanese I would commit seppuku, spilling my bowel into the jar of your ashes.

" “如果我是日本人，我会切腹自杀，让我的内脏流进你骨灰的罐子里。”

2. Japanese citizen failed in his attempt to commit Seppuku, a form of ritual suicide by disembowelment, in front of the Houses of Parliament in Tokyo Monday after police foiled his bid.

17日，一名日本人来到东京的国会议事堂前，试图用一把短刀剖腹自杀，在警员上前采取强制措施后，此人自杀未遂。

3. We learn of the honour of the vendetta and seppuku (belly-slitting suicide), and the shame of surrender.

人们在做每一件事时都执迷于准时性、礼貌性、整洁性及绝对的严肃性，让我感到惊诧。

4. If I were Japanese I would commit seppuku, spilling my bowel into the jar of your ashes.

如果我是日本人,我会切腹自杀,让我的内脏流进你骨灰的罐子里。

5. It has a tradition of self-killing, which in some forms, such as the ritualised seppuku (“belly-cutting”) of the samurai, may still be deemed honourable, even noble.

日本的社会讲究循规蹈矩，据说对于那些与此格格不入的人而言，生活希望渺茫。

6. "Voluntary seppuku was performed to avoid the dishonour of capture, show loyalty to one's lord by following him into death, protest against some policy of a superior, or atone for failure."

自愿切腹自杀的目的是避免被敌人俘掳的耻辱,用死来表示对主人的忠诚,表示对上司的某项政策的反抗,或是表示抵偿失职之罪。

7. "OBligatory seppuku was abolished in 1873, But voluntary seppuku continued to occur. Notable 20th-century examples included those of army officer Nogi Maresuke and writer Yukio Mishima. "

被迫切腹自杀于1873年被废除,但自愿切腹自杀的事件仍持续至今。三岛由纪夫的切腹自杀便是20世纪的一个著名例子

8. "OBligatory seppuku was a method of capital punishment for a samurai, who would be Beheaded by a second once he had made an initial stab wound himself. "

被迫切腹自杀是对武士采用的一种极刑,他们在刺伤自己后,再被别人斩首。

9. a japanese right-wing nationalist stabbed himself in the stomach monday outside the parliament building in an apparent suicide attempt by ritual seppuku disembowelment, police said.

警方称，一名日本右翼民族主义分子周一在日本议会大楼前用刀刺入自己的腹部，明显具有剖腹自杀的企图。

10. "Many elements of Japanese culture that Westerners now associate with the country-including Zen Buddhism, samurai (warriors), seppuku (ritual disembowelment), and the tea ceremony-date from this period."

许多与日本西部有关的事务均源于这个时期,如禅宗、武士、切腹和茶道。