With today being the 10th National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre, so our City fell silent this morning in memory of the tragedy that began unfolding 86 years ago, while more historical materials documenting the time are revealed.
今天是第十个南京大屠杀死难者国家公祭日，今天上午，我市默哀，缅怀86年前发生的惨案，同时更多的历史资料也被揭露出来。
10 years ago today, on December 13, 2014, as the mournful air-raid sirens wailed through the sky, a woman in Nanjing’s Xinjiekou stopped, stood, covered her face and wept, in that which was the first emotional outburst of the National Memorial Day for the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
10年前的今天，2014年12月13日，当悲痛的防空警报响彻长空时，南京新街口的一名妇女停下来，站起来，捂脸哭泣，这是南京大屠杀死难者国家公祭日的第一次情感爆发。
Despite the name, today is to commemorate and honour all who died during the Second Sino-Japanese War. But observance of this day in fact goes back as long ago as 1996, when Nanjing’s air-defence office began its annual test of the City’s air-raid siren network.
尽管有这个名字，但今天是为了纪念和纪念所有在第二次中日战争中死去的人。但事实上，这一天的纪念活动早在 1996 年就开始了，当时南京防空办公室开始对该市的防空警报网络进行年度测试。
Since 2014, thousands of carefully-selected citizens, including the military, doctors and nurses, government officials and members of the general public, take part in an elaborate yet solemn ceremony, planned and executed to perfection, beginning at 10:00 on 13 December, inside the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese Invaders. The ceremony this morning was no different.
自2014年以来，数千名经过精心挑选的公民，包括军队、医生和护士、政府官员和公众，于12月13日上午10:00在侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆内参加了一场精心策划和执行的精心准备、庄严的仪式。今天早上的仪式也不例外。
But setting this year apart was the unveiling of new evidence of the atrocities a few day prior, at a press conference on 8 December, as Nanjing Daily has reported.
但据《南京日报》报道，今年的不同之处在于，几天前，在 12 月 8 日的新闻发布会上，揭露了暴行的新证据。
In particular, the evidence included newspapers donated by Chinese-American Lu Zhaoning, pertaining to the first time that western media had reported on that which became known as the “Hundred Killings”.
特别是，证据中包括美籍华人卢兆宁捐赠的报纸，与西方媒体首次报道“百杀案”有关。
This was in reference to the Chicago Tribune’s publishing of an article referencing a report in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun that detailed a contest between two Japanese lieutenants to see who could be first to kill 100 Chinese soldiers. In the end, they both did and the two sides tied. After killing 106 people, they agreed a rematch until 2×150 people lay slain.
这是指《芝加哥论坛报》发表的一篇文章引用了《东京日日新闻》的一篇报道，该报道详细介绍了两名日本中尉之间的一场竞赛，看谁能第一个杀死 100 名中国士兵。最终双方都做到了，双方打成平手。在杀死 106 人后，他们同意重赛，直到杀死 2×150 人。
Then there was the article in The New York Times for 25 January, 1938. That reported on the continued atrocities committed by Japanese troops in Nanjing, saying that Nanjing lay in a state of anarchy.
然后是1938年1月25日《纽约时报》的一篇文章，报道了日军在南京继续犯下的暴行，说南京处于无政府状态。
Elsewhere and earlier, on 18 December, 1937, the San Francisco Chronicle reposted a report by an American journalist who was one of the first foreigners to leave the capital since the Japanese attack began.
在其他地方，即 1937 年 12 月 18 日，《旧金山纪事报》转载了一位美国记者的报道，这位记者是自日本进攻开始以来第一批离开首都的外国人之一。
That journalist reported the last thing they saw was 300 Chinese mercilessly executed in front of the river embankment, where corpses were piled up knee high. He added that it was a typical portrayal of the crazy scenes that had played out in Nanjing over those past few days.
记者报道称，他们最后看到的景象是300名中国人在河堤前被残酷处决，尸体堆到膝盖高。他补充说，这是这几天南京上演的疯狂场面的典型写照。
Today was the day that we remembered all of this.
今天是我们记住这一切的日子。
