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中国航母“施琅”号 Chinese warship makes regional waves 作者：英国《金融时报》 席佳琳 大连报道 At the Ikea store in Dalian, the city in north-eastern China, most customers last Thursday were middle-aged women sifting through textiles and tableware. 上周四，光顾大连宜家 Ikea 的顾客大多为中年女性，在纺织品和餐具货架前精挑细选着。 In the bedding department, however, the activity was more unusual. One man was aiming a camera on a tripod through a glass door, zooming in on a ship across the harbour: China’s first aircraft carrier. 但在卧具区域，却出现了不寻常的一幕。一名男子正在给一部固定在三脚架上的相机调焦，镜头透过一扇玻璃门，对准了港口另一侧的一艘船只：中国首艘航空母舰。 Bought in 1998 from Ukraine as an unfinished hull, the Soviet-designed carrier Varyag is being given what Xinhua, the official news agency, says are the finishing touches. 这艘前苏联设计的瓦良格号 Varyag 航母于1998年购自乌克兰，当时船体尚未完工。根据中国官方新闻社新华社的说法，目前改建工程已经进入收尾阶段。 The carrier is expected to enter service this year as the Shi Lang, named after the 17th-century admiral who conquered Taiwan, the island that China considers a renegade province. 瓦良格号预计将在今年以“施琅”号的名字下水服役。施琅是17世纪攻克台湾岛的海军将领，而中国政府一直将台湾视为一个叛乱省份。 Since the ship emerged from dry dock last year, many Chinese military enthusiasts have made the pilgrimage to Dalian, equipped with telescopes and expensive cameras. 自去年瓦良格号在干船坞露面以来，中国许多军事迷纷纷带着望远镜和昂贵的相机，前来大连朝圣。 “I’ve also been to the Wuhan [naval] shipyard to look at submarines, but this is better,” says the young man with the “我已经去武汉（海军）船坞看过潜艇了，但这次更令人兴奋，”拿着三脚架的年轻人说道。 tripod. 在大连的许多高楼和高架桥上都能看到瓦良格号，但宜家三层的两个紧急出口成了最佳观赏点。 The ship can be seen from many high-rises and elevated roads in Dalian, but two Ikea emergency exits on the third floor have emerged as the preferred vantage points. 瓦良格号所引起的关注范围远远超越了中国。美军太平洋司令部司令罗伯特?威拉德上将 Robert Willard 最近表示，中国邻国将严密关注瓦良格号。 The carrier is arousing interest far beyond China. Robert Willard, commander of US forces in the Pacific, recently said the ship would be watched closely by China’s neighbours. 威拉德上将表示：“（我们的）区域合作伙伴认为中国此举意义重大，而中国的军力原本就已经有了显著提升。” “[Our] regional partners regard this step by the Chinese in the mids