我嘗試翻譯了一下，不過實在是太長了而且用字好難 xd
翻了三四段就持續不下去了，有想接手的請繼續吧。
前兩段就直接沿用前面大大的。
ps. 我只是個寫 code 的，不要批評批太兇啊
Tsai Ing-wen is making breakfast. The presidential candidate cracks five eggs
and lets them bubble with bacon in the pan. She stacks slices of thick, white
toast. It’s a recipe adapted from British chef Jamie Oliver, but the
ingredients, she can’t help but say, are pure Taiwan. The meat comes
courtesy of Happy Pig, a farm near her spare but tasteful Taipei apartment,
the bread from a neighborhood bakery. She offers me an orange. “Organic,”
she says, in English. “And local, of course.”
蔡英文正在做早餐。這位總統候選人打了五顆蛋，讓他們在平底鍋裡和培根攪和。她還堆
起一片片厚白的土司。這是來自英國廚師Jamie Oliver的食譜，但蔡英文忍不住說道，裡
面的食材可全是來自台灣。培根肉來自一個叫"快樂豬"的農場，離她在台北那間簡單卻有
品味的公寓不遠；麵包則是從附近的麵包店買來。她遞給我一顆柳橙：「有機的。」她用
英文說道，「當然也是在地的。」
This is not an average breakfast for the 58-year-old lawyer turned politician
running to become Taiwan’s next President- —most days she grabs a coffee
and books it to the car. But it is, in many ways, oh so Tsai. The
Taipei-raised, U.S.- and U.K.-educated former negotiator wrote her doctoral
thesis on international trade law. As a minister, party chair and
presidential candidate (she narrowly lost to two-term incumbent Ma Ying-jeou
in the 2012 race), Tsai gained a reputation for being wonky—the type who
likes to debate protectionism over early-morning sips of black coffee or
oolong tea.
對這位５８歲，自律師轉戰政壇並參選台灣下屆總統的她來說這頓早餐可不馬虎－她大多
拿杯咖啡就匆匆上車；但這可是十足蔡式風格。這位出身台北，在美國和英國受教育的前
談判員以國際貿易法作為她的博士論文主題。當過行政院長、黨主席和總統候選人（她在
２０１２的大選中以接近票數敗給現任第二任期的馬英九），她被視作是十分奇詭的，那
種喜歡大清早就一邊喝著黑咖啡或烏龍茶，一邊辯論著貿易保護的人。
Now, as the early front runner in Taiwan’s January 2016 presidential
election, her vision for the island is proudly, defiantly, Taiwan-centric.
Tsai says she would maintain the political status quo across the strait with
China—essentially, both Taipei and Beijing agreeing to disagree as to which
represents the one, true China, leaving the question of the island’s fate to
the future. But Tsai wants to put Taiwan’s economy, development and culture
first. While Ma and his government have pushed for new trade and tourism
pacts with Beijing—China accounts for some 40% of Taiwan’s exports—Tsai
aims to lessen the island’s dependence on the mainland by building global
ties and championing local brands. “Taiwan needs a new model,” she tells
TIME.
現在，身為一個 2016 總統候選人，蔡英文有個驕傲、挑戰、以台灣為中心的理想。他表示，他會維持現在兩岸的現狀 - 兩邊都不承認對方代表真正中國的狀況 - 把兩岸的關係留給未來去討論。經濟、發展跟文化將會是他的首要目標。馬政府在過去已經推行了許多跟北京政府相關的貿易與旅行條約，中國佔台灣的出口已經達到百分之四十。對此，蔡英文希望能夠讓台灣與全球接軌，推廣在地品牌，來緩解對大陸的依賴程度。「台灣需要新的模式」，他這樣告訴時代雜誌。
Whether voters share her vision is a question that matters beyond Taipei. Taiwan is tiny, with a population of only 23 million, but its economy—powered by electronics, agriculture and tourism—ranks about mid-20s in the world by GDP size, with a GDP per capita about thrice that of China’s. Ceded by China’s Qing dynasty to Japan after the 1894–95 First Sino-Japanese War, colonized by Tokyo for half a century, then seized by Nationalist forces fleeing the Communists at the end of the Chinese civil war,
Taiwan has long
been a pawn in a regional great game. It is a linchpin for the U.S. in East Asia alongside Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, and, most important, it’s the only real democracy in the Chinese-speaking world. “This election matters because it’s a window into democracy rooted in Chinese tradition,”says Lung Ying-tai, an author and social commentator who recently stepped down as Culture Minister. “Because of Taiwan, the world is able to envision
a different China.”
台灣是一個人口僅兩千三百萬的小地方，但他的電子產業、農業以及旅遊帶來的經濟實力，能夠排在全球 GDP 20 幾名的位置，其人均 GDP 更是中國的三倍之多。在1894-95
的甲午戰爭清朝敗給日本後，台灣被日本殖民長達半世紀，後來又被國共內戰敗退的國民政府接收。事實上，台灣在歷史上一直是國家遊戲的抵押品，也是美國在東亞沿岸國家的關鍵角色。更重要的是，他是所有說華文國家中唯一一個民主國家。「這次選舉重要的是，他是華人文化對於選舉深根的一扇窗」（不確定這句指什麼），龍應台，一個作家及剛卸任的文化部部長如此說。「因為台灣，世界能展望一個不同的中國。」
Taiwan’s politics irritate and befuddle Beijing. To the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Taiwan is the province that got away, a living, breathing, voting reminder of what could happen to China if the CCP loosens its grip on its periphery, from Tibet to Xinjiang to Hong Kong. Beijing is particularly wary of a change in government from Ma’s relatively China-friendly Kuomintang (KMT) to Tsai’s firmly China-skeptic Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). When Tsai ran for President in 2012, Beijing
blasted her, without actually naming her, as a “troublemaker” and “splittist”—CCP-speak reserved for Dalai Lama–level foes. “A DPP government means uncertainty for cross-strait ties,” says Lin Gang, a Taiwan specialist at
Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
台灣的政治情勢讓北京政府時而惱怒時而困惑。對共產黨來說，台灣是尚未回歸的一省，但台灣的存在也不時警告共產黨，若是失掉緊抓已久的邊緣地帶，例如西藏、新疆或是香港，會發生什麼事。台灣政權從親中態度的國民黨，到疑中態度的民進黨，這個可能的轉變使得北京政府特別謹慎處理兩岸事宜。當蔡英文在 2012
年選台灣總統時，共產黨以不明指對象的方式炮轟她是「麻煩製造者」、「叛離者」等敵人。這些字眼以前是用來批評西藏領袖達賴喇嘛的。「若是政府由民進黨主導，將代表兩岸關係的不穩定性。」上海交通大學國際事務院的林岡教授如是說。
To the U.S., which is bound by the Taiwan Relations Act to come to the island’s aid if it’s attacked, Taiwan is a longtime friend and unofficial ally, though the strength of that friendship is being tested by China’s rise. Washington worries that Taiwan’s people, especially its youth, are growing warier of China, and that any conflict between the two might draw in the U.S. “What this election has done is crystallize the changes, the shift in public opinion,” says Shelley Rigger, a Taiwan scholar
at Davidson College in North Carolina and the author of Why Taiwan Matters. “I don’t think cross-strait relations are going to be easy going forward, and that’s not something U.S. policymakers want to hear.”
對台灣關係法下的美國立場，台灣是一個長期朋友以及非官方的同盟關係，若是台灣遭受攻擊，美國會提供救援，以此來對抗中國的崛起。不過白宮擔心台灣人，尤其是年輕人對中國的反抗意識越來越強，會把美國牽扯進去。「這場選舉將會讓主流民意的改變具體化呈現出來」，一個台灣研究學者 Shelley Rigger 如此表示：「我不認為兩岸關係會朝著好處理的方向前進，而這也不是美國政府樂見的。」
The KMT has yet to formally nominate a candidate for the top job, but the favorite is Hung Hsiu-chu, the legislature’s female deputy speaker. Nicknamed “little hot pepper” because of her diminutive stature and feisty
manner, Hung, 67, would be a contrast to the more professorial Tsai should she get the KMT’s nod. “I don’t think [Tsai] is a strong opponent,” Hung tells TIME. Yet the DPP’s choice, who has already started pressing the flesh islandwide, is spirited too. “People have this vision of me as a conservative person, but I’m actually quite adventurous,” she says. And possessed of a sharp sense of humor—when I compliment her cooking, Tsai looks at me with mock exasperation: “I have a Ph.D., you know.”
在寫這篇文章時，國民黨還沒有正式提名洪秀柱為該黨總統候選人。六十七歲的洪秀柱為立法院副院長，由於微型身材以及問政犀利，有著小辣椒的綽號，將為國民黨總統候選人，也就是蔡英文教授的對手。「我不認為蔡是個強勁的對手」洪如此告訴 Time 雜誌。蔡也表示：「人民長期認為我很保守，但實際上我是很有冒險心的。」當我稱讚他的廚藝時，蔡英文語帶幽默地說：「我有個博士學位，你懂得。」
Tsai grew up in a home on Taipei’s Zhongshan Road North, a street named
after Taiwan’s symbolic father, Sun Yat-sen, the Chinese revolutionary who
helped overthrow the Qing and co-founded the KMT. Her own father, an auto
mechanic turned property developer, was of the Confucian kind: he encouraged
her to study hard but also expected her, as the youngest daughter, to devote
herself to his care. “I was not considered a kid that would be successful in
my career,” says Tsai.
After attending university in Taiwan, she studied law at Cornell in New York
because, she says, it seemed the place for a young woman who “wanted to have
a revolutionary life.” From there she went to the London School of
Economics, where she earned her Ph.D., also in law, in less than three years.
“That pleased my father,” she says. When he called her home, she obliged,
returning to Taiwan to teach and, in 1994, to enter government in a series of
high-profile but mostly policy