A senior Amazon engineer has quit thecompany in protest over the company "firing whistleblowers".
一名亚马逊高级工程师已从该公司辞职，以抗议公司“解雇举报人”。
Tim Bray, a senior principal engineer andvice-president at Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud services division, said he"snapped" after the company's response to protests over itsenvironmental policies and warehouse conditions.
亚马逊的云服务部门亚马逊网络服务高级首席工程师兼副总裁蒂姆·布雷表示：“在公司对有关其环境政策和仓库条件的抗议活动做出回应后，他’勃然大怒’。”
In a blog post, Mr Bray said he wasresigning because of retaliation against employees who pushed the company toimprove its environmental practices, and who supported warehouse employeesunhappy with their working conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
布雷先生在博客中表示，他之所以辞职是因为公司对员工的报复，这些员工推动公司改善其环境实践，并支持对在新冠疫情期间工作条件不满的仓库员工。
Mr Bray said the firing of leaders involvedin both efforts was "designed to create a climate of fear" and thatstaying at the company would have meant "signing off on actions Idespised". He said his departurewould cost him over $1m (£805,000).
布雷先生说，解雇参与这两项运动的领导人是“旨在制造恐惧气氛”，想要留在公司就意味着“忽视自己所鄙视的行动”。 他说自己辞职将损失超过100万美元（合805,000英镑）。
Workers originally formed Amazon Employeesfor Climate Justice last year, publishing an open letter calling on thelogistics giant to publish a plan to reach zero emissions and commit to movingaway from fossil fuels. Mr Bray was the only VP-level employee to sign.
工人们最初于去年成立了“亚马逊员工气候正义组织（AECJ）”，发表了一封公开信，呼吁这家物流巨头发布一项实现零排放并致力于摆脱化石燃料的计划。布雷先生是唯一签署的副总裁级员工。
The group organised a walkout, promptingAmazon chief executive Jeff Bezos to announce a commitment to meet the Parisclimate goals 10 years early and to get 80pc of its energy from renewablesources by 2024.
该组织罢了一次工，促使亚马逊首席执行官杰夫·贝索斯宣布承诺提前十年实现巴黎气候目标，并在2024年之前从可再生能源中获取80％的能源。
Last month the same group organised a videocall in support of warehouse workers trying to improve their safety conditions.Two AECJ leaders were fired soon after, along with several warehouse workers.
上个月，同一组织又通过视频电话支持试图改善仓库安全条件的工人。 此后不久，两名AECJ领导人以及数名仓库工人被解雇。
"The justifications were laughable; itwas clear to any reasonable observer that they were turfed forwhistleblowing," Mr Bray said.
布雷说：“理由是可笑的；任何理智的旁观者都很清楚他们因为举报而被踢走。”
Last month Amazon said AECJ leaders MarenCosta and Emily Cunningham were fired for “repeatedly violating internalpolicies”, without specifying which policies.
亚马逊上个月表示，AECJ领导人马伦·科斯塔和艾米丽·坎宁安因“屡次违反内部政策”而被解雇，但未指明具体哪些政策。
It said warehouse workers Bashir Mohamedand Chris Smalls were fired for "violating social distancingguidelines".
该公司称，仓库工人巴希尔·穆罕默德和克里斯·斯莫斯因“违反社交距离准则”而被解雇。
"The warehouse workers are weak andgetting weaker, what with mass unemployment and (in the US) job-linked healthinsurance.
“仓库工人是弱势群体，且越来越弱势，而大规模失业和美国就业相关的医疗保险又是如此。
"So they’re gonna get treated likecrap, because capitalism. Any plausible solution has to start with increasingtheir collective strength," Mr Bray said.
布雷说：“因此，由于资本主义制度，他们被随意对待。任何可行的解决方案都必须从增强他们的集体实力开始。”
Amazon declined to comment.
亚马逊拒绝置评。
whistleblower n. 告发者，检举者，吹哨者
snap vt. 突然折断，拉断；猛咬；啪地关上
vi. 咬；厉声说；咯嗒一声关上; (人) 突然发怒; (物) 突然爆发
n. 猛咬；劈啪声；突然折断
adj. 突然的
retaliation n. 报复；反击；回敬
signing off v. 停止活动；停止广播
move away from 远离
fossil fuels 化石燃料
turf n. 草皮；泥炭；跑马场
vt. 覆草皮于；驱逐；强制赶走
crap n. 废话；废物；屎；拉屎 vi. 掷骰子；拉屎
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