Richard Gere, the Hollywood actor who has spurned red meat for the past 30 years, has thrown his support behind a plan to transform the site of Buddha’s enlightenment into a vegetarian zone to spread the message of peace.

不吃紅肉長達30年的好萊塢明星李察吉爾最近表態支持一項計畫，打算把佛陀悟道之地變成素食區，以傳達和平的訊息。

The activist, who was taking part in a five-day training session with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist leader, in the Indian town of Bodhgaya, took part in a candlelit march highlighting the campaign.

這位運動人士最近在菩提迦耶參加由藏傳佛教領袖達賴喇嘛主持的5天法會，同時也參加了一場宣傳此項計畫的燭光遊行。

"Bodhgaya is a pious place and I want to come here again," he said, after joining around 500 monks and activists who took part in the march. "I am with the people who have launched this campaign."

「菩提迦耶是個虔誠的地方，我還想要再來，」他在與大約500位僧侶及運動人士一起參加這場遊行後表示。「我全力支持發起這項運動的人士。」

According to Buddhist tradition, Bodhgaya, in the state of Bihar, is where Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment around 500BC. Starting in the 19th century, the area gradually become a site of pilgrimage and is now visited by Buddhists from all over the world.

根據佛教傳統，位於印度比哈邦的菩提迦耶城正是釋迦牟尼在公元前500年左右悟道之處。自19世紀起，當地逐漸成為佛教徒朝聖之地，目前來自全球各地的佛教徒都會造訪此處。

新聞辭典

serve （sth） up/out：動詞片語，端上食物或飲料等，上菜。如Come on everyone, I’m ready to serve up.（大家過來吧，我準備要上菜了。）

throw one’s weight/support behind sth/sb：運用某人的力量或影響力來支持某事或某人，如If we could persuade the chairman to throw his weight behind the plan, it would have a much better chance of success.（假如我們能說服董事長鼎力相助，這項計畫成功的機會會更大。）

attain：（正式用語）動詞，指達到、獲得，如India attained independence in 1947, after decades of struggle.（歷經數十年的努力，印度終於在1947年獲得獨立。）