西班牙发生惨烈列车相撞事故造成至少69人死亡的第二天，应急救援人员和搜救犬队伍在现场搜寻幸存者和遇难者；面临大选和政府执政能力受到新指责的总理在事故现场附近设立指挥部；遇难者身份开始浮出水面。官员表示，仍有50多人住院治疗，其中15人情况危急。
A day after a horrific train crash in Spain killed at least 69 people, emergency workers and canine units looked for survivors and victims; a prime minister facing elections and fresh accusations about his government’s competency set up camp near the crash site; and victims’ identities began to emerge. More than 50 people were still in hospitals, officials said, with 15 in critical condition.
调查人员将重点放在马德里列车调度员的角色上，调查他们是允许甚至导致一列高速列车追尾撞上同一轨道上停靠的另一列列车，事发时自动安全系统已失效。
Investigators focused on the role of train traffic controllers in Madrid in allowing, or even causing, one high-speed train to rear-end another that was stopped on the same tracks after an automatic safety system went down.
在人们担忧人类可能正在失去对技术的控制之际，这起事故引发了西班牙关于缺乏防范人为错误的技术保障措施的质疑。这些疑虑在一个一年内遭遇两起列车灾难的国家显得尤为令人不安。西班牙庞大的铁路系统——曾是国家骄傲所在，也是吸引越来越多游客、外国人和看好西班牙经济增长者的亮点——已成为焦虑的根源。
In a time of concern that humans could be losing control over technology, the crash prompted questions in Spain about a lack of technological safeguards against human error. Those doubts were especially troubling in a country suffering its second train disaster in a year. Spain’s vast rail system — once a point of pride, and an attraction to a growing number of tourists, foreigners and boosters of Spanish growth — has become a source of anxiety.
“我要向所有公民保证，整个中央政府和国家所有机构正在日夜工作，不仅是为了回应遇难者家属的需求，也是为了查明导致这场悲剧的每一个细节，并加强安全措施，确保此类事件不再发生，”总理佩德罗·桑切斯周四在事故现场附近的乌尔达镇表示。图片 周四，应急救援人员仍在事故现场搜寻幸存者和遇难者。图片来源……巴勃罗·布拉兹奎兹·多明格斯/盖蒂图片社 但一些批评者开始主张，桑切斯先生应审视自己的政府，因为这些事故以及铁路系统明显的恶化，都发生在他执政的八年间。
“I want to reassure all citizens that the entire central government and all the institutions of the state are working day and night, not only to respond to the needs of the victims’ families, but also to establish every last detail of what caused this tragedy and to strengthen safety measures so that something like this never happens again,” Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Thursday in the town of Urda, near the crash site. Image Emergency workers were still searching for survivors and victims at the site of the crash on Thursday. Credit...
“政府在维护和安全方面做了那些事之后，还谈论人为失误，这是不可接受的，”西班牙国家铁路基础设施管理公司（Adif）前总裁伊莎贝尔·帕尔多·德·维拉周四对保守派报纸《世界报》（El Mundo）表示。Adif 是该国国有的铁路基础设施管理机构，负责监管列车交通管制员。
Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images But some critics began to argue that Mr. Sánchez should examine his own government, since the accidents, and the apparent erosion of the rail system, occurred during his eight years in power. “The government cannot talk about human error after what it has done regarding maintenance and safety,” Isabel Pardo de Vera, a former president of Adif, the country’s state-owned railway infrastructure manager, which oversees the train traffic control operators, told the conservative newspaper El Mundo on Thursday.
随着西班牙国王和王后宣布将探望托莱多医院的伤员，托莱多位于事故现场附近，官方通报了搜救进展。
As Spain’s king and queen announced that they would visit the wounded in Toledo, near the crash, officials offered updates about the search.
卡斯蒂利亚-拉曼查大区主席埃米利亚诺·加西亚-帕赫周四在乌尔达表示，整夜技术人员发现了更多遗骸，正在进行身份确认工作。
Throughout the night, technicians discovered more remains and were in the process of identifying the dead, Emiliano García-Page, the president of the Castilla-La Mancha region, said in Urda on Thursday.
“我们认为下面不再有被困遗体，但我总是谨慎地这么说，”加西亚-帕赫说。“我们有理由乐观地认为，住院伤员的状况将继续好转。他们的恢复情况比我们昨晚预期的要顺利得多。” 遇难者详情也开始浮出水面。遇难者中包括日本和韩国公民，他们乘坐的是一条深受游客欢迎的线路，该线路连接首都马德里和历史名城塞维利亚。据其所属政党透露，后方列车的司机安东尼奥·阿塞多在接到交通管制员继续行车的指令后，也在事故中遇难。
“We do not believe there are any more bodies trapped underneath, but I always say that with caution,” Mr. García-Page said. “We are reasonably optimistic that the hospitalized patients will continue to improve. Their conditions are progressing more favorably than we expected last night.”Details about the victims also began to emerge. Among the dead were Japanese and South Korean nationals, traveling on a line popular with tourists traveling from Madrid, the capital, to the historic city of Seville. The conductor of the rear train, Antonio Acedo, who was told by traffic controllers to continue his train’s journey, also died in the crash according to the political party to which he belonged.
在政府呼吁全国哀悼之际，桑切斯的政敌们没有浪费一分钟就做出了反应，全国大选将于11月29日举行。
While the government urged a time of mourning, the political enemies of Mr. Sánchez didn’t waste a minute to react, with national elections looming on Nov. 29.
“我们不会接受一种让我们噤声的哀悼期，而西班牙人正在死去，”极右翼政党Vox的领导人圣地亚哥·阿瓦斯卡尔周三晚在马德里郊外的巴利亚多利德举行的集会上表示。巴利亚多利德是政府交通部长奥斯卡·普恩特的家乡，他的职位似乎岌岌可危。阿瓦斯卡尔已开始称他为“死亡部长”。周四，在事故现场附近的托莱多，一面西班牙国旗降半旗。
“We will not accept a period of mourning that silences us while Spaniards are dying,” Santiago Abascal, the leader of the far-right party Vox, said at a rally on Wednesday evening in Valladolid, outside Madrid. Valladolid is the hometown of Óscar Puente, the government’s transportation minister, whose job appears to be in jeopardy. Mr. Abascal has taken to calling him the “minister of death.”A Spanish flag at half-staff in Toledo, near the site of the crash, on Thursday.
托马斯·科埃克斯/法新社——盖蒂图片社 普恩特在事故发生数小时内就陷入了政治漩涡，当他在新闻发布会上被问到的第一个问题就是他是否会辞职。（他说他此刻没考虑自己。）但自那时起，来自左翼和右翼的批评只增不减，因为普恩特——以政府沉迷社交媒体的“攻击犬”著称——监管下发生了两起与基础设施有关的历史性铁路灾难。
Thomas Coex/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Mr. Puente fell into the political cross hairs within hours of the crash, when the first question put to him in a news conference was whether he would quit. (He said he wasn’t thinking about himself at the moment.) But criticism from the left and the right has only ratcheted up since then, as Mr. Puente, known as the government’s social-media-addicted attack dog, has overseen two historic rail disasters linked to infrastructure. It didn’t help that he recently danced on a talk show set featuring straphangers on a bumpy ride.
最近他在一个脱口秀节目中跳舞，节目布景模拟乘客在颠簸的车厢里站立，这也没帮上忙。在那次露面中，他幽默地提到了国家铁路公司Renfe因系统故障导致的延误，而正是Renfe运营了周三追尾另一列火车的那列列车。
During that appearance, he made a humorous reference to delays caused by system failures on Renfe, the national railway, which operated the train that rear-ended the other one on Wednesday. Even people in the southern region of Andalusia whose economic survival depends on visitors brought from Madrid by the fast-train line seemed resigned to a new reality.
即使是南部安达卢西亚地区、经济生存依赖高铁从马德里带来游客的人们，似乎也已接受了这一新现实。
“The Madrid–Andalusia high-speed train,” said Juanma Moreno, Andalusia’s regional president from the opposition conservative party, “is no longer a safe means of transport.”
“马德里-安达卢西亚高铁，”安达卢西亚大区主席、在野保守党的胡安马·莫雷诺表示，“不再是一种安全的交通工具。” 这场政治争执和全国性的灵魂拷问，发生在更紧迫的搜寻幸存者行动的背景下。失踪者亲属转向社交媒体寻求帮助寻找亲人，提供了他们所在的车厢号、穿着的衣物等信息。
The political contretemps and national soul-searching took place against the more urgent search for survivors. Relatives of missing people took to social media to appeal for help in finding loved ones, including the carriage numbers they rode in, the clothes they were wearing. “My sister Adriana was on the Renfe Madrid-Seville train, carriage 8,” one woman wrote.
“妹妹阿德里亚娜在Renfe马德里至塞维利亚列车的8号车厢，”一名女子写道。“我们找不到她。”卡洛斯·巴拉甘参与了报道。
“We can’t find her.”Carlos Barragán contributed reporting.