Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America
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Watch: Trump signs executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America.
观看：特朗普签署行政命令，将安大略湖更名为美国湖 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普签署了一项行政命令，试图将安大略湖更名为美国湖。
The move comes after trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed late last week, and the US imposed new 50% tariffs on $20bn (C$28bn) worth of Canadian goods.
此举是在美加贸易谈判上周末破裂后作出的，美国对价值200亿美元（约280亿加元）的加拿大商品征收了新的50%关税。
Canada will implement "dollar for dollar" counter tariffs next month. Trump has repeatedly posted threats about renaming the lake, one of the five Great Lakes that straddle both countries, on social media amid the trade dispute.
加拿大将在下个月实施"一对一"的反关税。 在贸易争端期间，特朗普多次在社交媒体上威胁要将这座跨越两国的五大湖之一的湖泊更名。
He said on Thursday the move was "official, effective immediately" and that his administration has "filed all the necessary papers, documents" to make the change.
他周四表示，这一举措"正式生效，立即生效"，他的政府已"提交了所有必要的文件和文件"以实现变革。
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney noted the name Lake Ontario can be traced back more than 400 years, noting in a social media post on Thursday that preceded the formation of the Canadian Confederation and the US Declaration of Independence.
加拿大总理马克·卡尼在周四的社交媒体帖子中指出，安大略湖这个名字可以追溯到400多年前，这发生在加拿大联邦成立和美国独立宣言之前。
"We know that the United States is changing.
"我们知道美国正在改变。
Their trade relations, their foreign policy, their national monuments, their hydronyms," he wrote. "Canadian women and men also know that things must be called by their name, and this lake is called Lake Ontario – today and forever." When Trump took the White House in 2025, he signed a similar order that changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
他的贸易关系、外交政策、国家纪念碑、水文学，"他写道。 "加拿大的男女也知道事物必须以名字命名，这个湖被称为安大略湖——今天和永远。" 当特朗普于2025年掌控白宫时，他签署了一项类似的命令，将墨西哥湾改为美洲湾。
Mexico has rejected the name change, arguing a single country cannot rename a shared body of international water. It also led to a dispute between Mexico and tech giant Google, which renamed the gulf in its maps application. , external In that case, Google Maps users in the US see "Gulf of America", while those in Mexico see the "Gulf of Mexico".
墨西哥拒绝了更名，认为单一国家不能更名共享的国际水体。 这也引发了墨西哥与科技巨头谷歌之间的争议，谷歌在其地图应用中将海湾重新命名。，外部 在这种情况下，美国的谷歌地图用户看到的是"美国湾"，而墨西哥的用户则看到的是"墨西哥湾"。
Those in other countries see the "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)".
其他国家的人则看到"墨西哥湾（墨西哥湾）"。
There is no universally recognized international body setting the names of international waters. While the US president has broad discretion over how his country officially recognises landmarks, other countries do not have to follow.
目前没有一个普遍认可的国际机构来命名国际水域的名称。 虽然美国总统对其国家如何正式认可地标拥有广泛自由裁量权，但其他国家则不必遵循。
Trump's latest order directs the US Department of the Interior to update the Geographic Names Information Service - the official repository of domestic geographic names in the US - to reflect the name change, the president said. Canada, however, does not have to recognise name changes made by other countries and officials dismissed the idea in remarks earlier this week.
总统表示，特朗普最新的命令指示美国内政部更新地名信息服务——美国官方的国内地名存储库——以反映更名。 然而，加拿大不必承认其他国家所做的名称更改，官员们本周早些时候在讲话中否认了这一想法。
"We'll always call it Lake Ontario," said Industry Minister Melanie Joly on Tuesday.
"我们永远叫它安大略湖，"工业部长梅拉妮·乔利周二说。
The names of four of the Great Lakes - Ontario, Huron, Michigan and Erie - originate from indigenous words.
四个五大湖——安大略、休伦、密歇根和伊利——的名称都源自土著词汇。
Lake Superior was named after an anglicised French word.
苏必利尔湖的名字来源于一个法语英语词汇。
Lake Ontario, the smallest of the Great Lakes, borders both the Canadian province and the US state of New York. Canada's retaliation tests the limit of American power under Trump 'Half my business will be gone' - firms in Canada and US fear trade war As he signed the order on Thursday in the Oval Office, Trump said it wasn't a direct message to Canada, but that America's northern neighbour "has been ripping us off for a long time on trade". Trump said he'd been thinking about renaming the lake "for a long time".
安大略湖是五大湖中最小的一个，毗邻加拿大省和美国纽约州。 加拿大的报复行动考验了特朗普执政下美国权力的极限 "我一半的业务将消失"——加拿大和美国的公司担心贸易战 特朗普周四在椭圆形办公室签署该命令时表示，这并非对加拿大的直接信号，而是美国的北方邻国"长期以来一直在贸易上坑我们"。 特朗普说他"很久了"就考虑给湖泊改名。
"So if you think about it, we have a gulf and we have a lake," Trump said.
"所以仔细想想，我们有海湾和湖泊，"特朗普说。
"Now, all we need is an ocean.
"现在，我们只需要一片海洋。
So maybe we'll have to change the name of the Atlantic and or the Pacific.
所以也许我们得改大西洋或太平洋的名字。
Maybe we'll change them both."
也许我们两个都换。"
The name change request comes amid a trade dispute that has seen US-Canada relations fall to new lows, with insults thrown back-and-forth between the Trump administration and Canadian officials over the past week.
此次更名请求正值美加贸易争端，美加关系跌至新低，过去一周特朗普政府与加拿大官员之间互相辱骂。
There was a hint on Thursday that there was room for a return to the negotiating table sometime in the future. Canadian US trade minister, Dominic LeBlanc, said in a post on X that the US had withdrawn some of its demands around labelling requirements in French "and is confirming that measures to promote French language and Canadian culture will not be subject to future US trade actions". "We look forward to further constructive US clarifications on their other positions, which would create the possibility of a mutually beneficial trade agreement that respects Canadian sovereignty".
周四有迹象表明，未来有机会重返谈判桌。 加拿大美国贸易部长多米尼克·勒布朗在X上的一篇帖子中表示，美国已撤回部分关于法语标签要求的要求，"并确认推广法语和加拿大文化的措施将不受美国未来贸易行动的影响"。 "我们期待美国对其其他立场的进一步建设性澄清，这将创造出一项尊重加拿大主权、互利贸易协议的可能性。"
Trade talks collapsed at the last minute late on Friday night, with both sides accusing the other of demanding last-minute changes to a tentative deal.
贸易谈判在周五晚些时候的最后一刻崩溃，双方都指责对方要求在最后一刻改变暂定交易。
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