Madrid mourns bombing victims
马德里哀悼受害者

☆ mourn 哀悼

Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Posted: 1753 GMT (0153 HKT)

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MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- World leaders, including 14 prime ministers, gathered for a state funeral in Madrid for the victims of the March 11 terrorist bombings.
西班牙，马德里－－世界各地要人，包括14个元首，齐聚马德里，为3月11号恐怖炸弹袭击受害者举行国葬。

☆ terrorist  恐怖分子

Spain's royal family, headed by King Juan Carlos, led mourners at Wednesday's service, which began with midday Mass at Almudena Cathedral on a cold overcast day.
在这个阴冷的日子，从Almudena大教堂中午的弥撒开始，西班牙皇室以Juan Carlos国王为首，带领哀悼者举行了周三的国葬仪式。

☆ service 在此指国葬仪式
    MASS  弥撒
    overcast day 阴天

Presiding over Wednesday's Mass was the archbishop of Madrid, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela.
马德里Antonio Rouco Varela红衣主教主持了仪式(周三弥撒)。

☆ archbishop  大教主
     cardinal  红衣主教

"We have cried, and we have cried together," Rouco Varela told the congregation. An enormous white sheet bearing a black ribbon of mourning hung behind the altar.
Rouco Varela说：“我们为此哭泣，我们为此一起哭泣。”在祭坛后面，高挂着一个镶着黑带的巨大白色布单。

☆ congregation   集会, 圣会
     altar 祭坛

"Great pain has filled your lives and those of your families since that black day in which brutal terrorist violence, planned and executed with unspeakable cruelty, ended the lives of your most beloved," Rouco Varela said.
Rouco Varela说：“从那个黑色日子开始，从残忍的恐怖分子计划、实施了无以言表的暴行并带走了你们至爱之人生命时刻起，巨大的就悲痛充满你们生活，弥漫在你们的家庭。”

"From the very first moment -- that of the anguished search and the evitable identification of your loved ones -- your pain became the pain of our dear city of Madrid, of Spain, and very quickly, of the whole world," he added.
他说：“从那一刻起，从痛苦地搜寻、确认你们至爱之人开始，你们的悲伤即弥漫了我们最亲爱的城市，马德里，弥漫了西班牙，并迅速地弥漫到世界各处。”

It is the first state funeral for people outside the royal family in the history of Spain's new democracy, restored after former dictator Francisco Franco died in 1975.

In attendance were about 500 relatives of the victims.

Also attending were British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Britain's Prince Charles, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and more than a dozen other heads of state or government.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori also attended.

Many of the leaders also met with incoming Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who says he intends to pull Spain's troops from Iraq if the U.N. does not take a central role.