The workers are exploiting an open coalmine .

工人们正在开采一个露天煤矿。

Just this month a chinese reporter investigating an unlicensed coalmine was beaten to death .

就在本月，一名中国记者在调查一件无证煤矿事件中被殴致死。

Workers of the coalmine decided to go on strike for better working conditions .

煤矿工人们决定为争取更好的工作条件举行罢工。

" Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine , " wrote jeff jarvis , a new-media savant , after the service beat mainstream media to news about the earthquake that struck china 's sichuan province in may 2008 .

当这项服务在关于2008年5月侵袭中国四川省的地震新闻方面击败主流媒体后，新媒体专家杰夫贾维斯（jeffjarvis）写道：“推特是新闻煤矿里的金丝雀。”

You see that we 're all canaries in the coalmine on this one ? .

你看我们都是这件事情的受害者。