新加坡首任總理李光耀逝世
Singapore's first prime minister Lee KuanYew, one of the towering figures of post-colonial Asian politics, died Monday in hospital, the government said.
作爲後殖民時代亞洲最顯著的政治人物之一，新加坡首任總理李光耀週一於醫院病逝，新加坡政府說。Lee's son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said in a statement that he was "deeply grieved to announce th e passing of Mr Lee Kuan Yew, the founding Prime Minister of Singapore".
他的兒子總理李顯龍在一份聲明中說他“非常悲傷的宣佈李光耀先生，新加坡建國總理逝世”。
"Mr Lee passed away peacefully at the Singapore General Hospital today at 3.18 am," the statement said. He was 91.
“今天凌晨3點18分李先生在新新加坡總醫院安靜的去世”。聲明中說道。享年91歲。
The elder Lee, who dominated Singaporepolitics for more than half a century, had been in hospital since February 5 with severe pneumonia.
李光耀主宰新加坡政治長達半個多世紀之久，2月5號就住院了，得了嚴重的肺炎。Two years before he died, he disclosed thathe had signed a medical directive instructing doctors not to use anylife-sustaining treatment if he could not be resuscitated.
兩年前，他披露說他已經簽署了一個醫療指令，如果他不能甦醒，那麼就醫生就沒必要對他進行維生治療。Lee was prime minister from 1959, when colonial ruler Britain granted Singapore self-rule, to 1990. He led Singapore to independence in 1965 after a brief and stormy union with Malaysia.
李從1959年開始擔任總理,當時殖民統治者英國同意新加坡自治到1990年。期間與馬來西亞簡短的合併成一個國家後，1965年他帶領新加坡獲得獨立。The widely revered patriarch's death is likely to cast a pall over preparations for the city-state's 50th anniversary of independence on August 9.
這位廣受尊敬的開國總理的死亡將給8月9日的獨立50週年紀念日的準備工作籠罩上陰影。Prime Minister Lee also announced his father's death on his Facebook page and was immediately flooded with messages of condolence.
李顯龍還在臉書上發表了自己父親的死訊，立即獲得衆多的慰問。
