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Pictures of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy enjoying a cigar on New York’s Sixth Avenue were splashed across Spanish newspapers recently as his government prepared to unveil unprecedented austerity measures.

西班牙總理拉霍伊在紐約第六大道上享用雪茄的照片最近登上西國各大報紙，而西國政府此時正準備宣布史無前例的嚴苛撙節措施。

The conservative leader’s conspicuous taste for the finer things in life jarred as he asks Spaniards to accept yet more painful sacrifices to restore public finances.

這位保守派領袖對生活中華美事物的明顯偏好，跟他要求西班牙人民接受更痛苦的犧牲以重建公共財務的說法並不相符。

Some Spaniards said on Twitter the photo of Rajoy outside Radio City Music Hall reminded them of Marie-Antoinette, the queen beheaded during the French revolution after reportedly saying that people should eat cake if they had no bread.

有些西班牙網友在推特上表示，拉霍伊在無線電城音樂廳外抽雪茄的照片讓他們想到瑪麗安東妮，這位在法國大革命中遭到砍頭的皇后據稱曾說過，假如人民沒有麵包可吃，那就改吃蛋糕。

A spokeswoman for Rajoy said the prime minister had been on an especially tight schedule in New York -- meeting other leaders, addressing the United Nations and giving media interviews -- and the short walk was his only breather.

拉霍伊發言人則說，總理在紐約的行程非常緊湊，包括會見其他領袖、在聯合國大會發表演說和接受媒體訪問等，這短短的散步時間是他唯一的喘息機會。

As the country braces for another likely rescue package with one in four Spanish workers unemployed, his cigar-toting lifestyle seems to jar even more with a grim, angry national mood.

正當西班牙準備接受另一項紓困方案，全國4分之1勞工失業之際，拉霍伊哈雪茄的生活方式似乎與絕望、憤怒的國家氣氛更加格格不入 。