全球僅20%人口評為「自由」
Taiwan has reached a milestone of being rated as a “free” country for the 25th consecutive year by US-based NGO Freedom House.
台灣已連續25年達成被總部位於美國的非政府組織自由之家評定為「自由」國家的里程碑。
milestone (n.)里程碑consecutive (adj.)連續的-based (suffix)總部位於……的NGO=Non-Governmental Organization 非政府組織
The organization released its Freedom in the World 2023 report on March 9, marking the 50th year of ratings, which gave Taiwan a Global Freedom Score of 94 of 100.
紀念評比的50週年，該組織於3月9日發布了《2023年世界自由報告》，在滿分100分的情況下，給了台灣全球自由評分94分。
mark (v.)標示、表明
In order to calculate the score for the 195 countries and 15 territories on this year’s list, researchers, analysts, advisers and Freedom House’s own staff looked at many aspects of each locations’ “political rights” and “civil liberties.”
為了計算今年名單上195個國家和15個地區的評分，研究人員、分析師、顧問和自由之家的員工評估了每個地點「政治權利」和「公民自由」的許多層面。
civil (adj.)公民的civil rights 公民權
Some examples of the evaluated criteria include election processes, citizens’ personal freedoms, and the rights of organizations and individuals.
一些評估標準的例子包括選舉程序、公民個人自由以及組織和個人的權利。
criterion (n.) 準則、標準（複數：criteria）
In this year’s report, Taiwan received identical scores to those from last year: 38 out of 40 in the political rights category and 56 out of 60 in civil liberties.
在今年的報告中，台灣獲得了與去年相同的分數：在政治權利類別中滿分40分拿到38分，公民自由方面則是滿分60分拿到56分。
identical (adj.)完全相同的、極為相似的identical twins 同卵雙胞胎
This near-perfect score in political rights was due to the country’s “strong performances in the subcategories of electoral process, political pluralism and participation, and functioning of government.”
這個幾乎完美的政治權利分數，是由於該國在選舉程序、政治多元主義和參與以及政府運作的子類別中表現出色。
sub- (prefix)次、副
Additionally, Taiwan enjoyed its high civil liberties score on account of citizens’ freedoms to assemble and practice religion in public as well as the country’s media being “free and independent.”
此外，台灣獲得高公民自由分數，因為公民享有在公共場所自由集會和信仰宗教的自由，以及該國媒體是「自由和獨立的」。
on account of 因為assemble (v.)集合、聚集
According to the Freedom in the World 2023 report, the top five nations include three that received perfect scores — Finland, Norway and Sweden — along with New Zealand and Canada, which scored 99 and 98 respectively.
根據《2023年世界自由報告》，前五名國家包括三個獲得滿分的國家──芬蘭、挪威和瑞典──以及分別獲得99和98分的紐西蘭和加拿大。
along with 連同respectively (adv.)分別地
Taiwan’s score of 94 placed it second in Asia, behind Japan’s score of 96.
台灣拿到94分位居亞洲第二，僅次於獲得96分的日本。
Overall, Freedom House evaluated 7.9 billion people of the world’s population, rating 20% of them as “free,” while 41% were “‘partly free’ and the remainder were ‘not free.’”
整體來說，自由之家評估了全球79億人口，其中20%的人口被評定為「自由」，41%被評定為「部分自由」，其餘則被評為「不自由」。