日本新任首相安倍晉三于今天下午抵達北京，這是他就任日本首相后的首次出訪。長期以來，人們一直認為安倍對亞洲近鄰實施強硬路線，而日本首相上任后歷來把美國作為第一出訪國，所以此次訪問對陷入僵局的中日關系具有深遠意義。

請看《中國日報》相關報道：Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Beijing Sunday afternoon, for his first foreign trip as leader and his first summit talks with Chinese leaders.

The trip carries deep symbolism as it will be the first foreign trip for Abe, who was long seen as a hardliner toward Asian neighbors. Japanese premiers have traditionally gone first to the United States.

報道中的hardliner屬于政治詞匯，指的是“強硬路線者，不妥協者”，與soft-liner（溫和路線者，溫和派）相對應。

Hardliner相應的形容詞形式是“hard-line”（立場強硬的），如：a hard-line foreign policy（強硬的外交政策）。另外，hard line的復數形式hard lines指的是“惡運、逆境”，看例句：He has lost his job. It's hard lines on his family.（他失業了，這一來全家都倒霉。）

（英語點津陳蓓編輯）