【你用對】動詞了嗎？

英文的動詞是句子的心臟，它可以代表動作、狀態，甚至決定時態。

中文同樣是「拿」，英文的bring 是拿來 (come here with)；take則是反方向而行，就像是閩南語說的「提去」(go there with)；fetch 則是離開這裡，去那裡拿回來，兼具「來去」雙向；而carry則沒有分來去的方向，強調「承載、攜帶」的意思。

用對動詞，說起英文鏗鏘有力
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【謎底揭曉】在台灣丟一顆石頭都會打中瞎譯那話兒！

（那話兒：表示不正當或不雅的事。小說中常指人的性器官而言。也作「那樁兒」。）

繼教授譯者謝瑤玲把「現代的祕教者窮得很」(don't have two pennies to rub together)譯成「現代的祕教者並沒有兩根可以搓在一起的陰莖」(two penises)，繼教授譯者賴慈芸把「等文稿定案後，再找譯者來翻譯也不遲。」(after the job is done, fetch the translator)譯成「翻完之後，不要給譯者留活口」(after the job is done, kill the translator)之後，實在很難找到可以與之匹敵的胡譯瞎譯，直到最近，為了研究中英譯者如何處理「共匪」的英譯，為了暸解中譯「共匪」對應的英文原文是啥，竟然發現無敵的「丟一顆石頭……打中他那話兒」！

原文/中譯對照如下，應該有足夠的上下文讓有興趣一探究竟的讀者瞧瞧這誤會是怎麼發生的，歸納三個原因：
* 譯者想像力過於旺盛、
* 恍神或不用心，見樹不見林、
* 對原文文法不夠暸解，態度不對而輕忽之。

首先，「丟一顆石頭」的原文是 lob one （發射一個那個東西），那個東西指什麼？從原文脈絡明顯指向前兩句才剛剛說過的 tactical nuclear bombs （戰術核子武器），即使不說「發射一顆戰術核彈」，嫌太累贅，至少要譯成「發射一顆核彈」。

核彈怎會變石頭？譯者顯然查字典或Google了一下，發現動詞 lob （丟、投擲、發射）和 stone 還蠻常一起出現吧？！就給它「丟一顆石頭」下去了，用這種方式理解英文是不行的，one 必須指涉出現過的名詞概念，不然，one 也有「一個人」之意，但顯然「投擲/發射一個人到廁所」根本見鬼，所以譯者可能採取「消去法」，認定這one一定是個「東西」不是人，但也輪不到「石頭」來當the one啊！

其次，「打中他那話兒」的原文是 make sure I hit it，這裡跟前述的 one 一樣，有一個代名詞 it，同樣的，譯者又是對文法不夠尊重，想像力旺盛，從廁所就聯想到男人的那話兒，於是 it 就譯成「his private parts」（他那話兒），準備千古流芳了！但是各位有沒有注意到這個「解法」的矛盾和問題？中文「他那話兒」有一個「他」，他只能代表人，那這個他指涉誰？原文完全沒有出現「他」。譯者該不會希望讀者可以看出他的用意：用擬人法的譬喻，借用「男廁裡，他的那話兒」表達「克里姆林宮的機要位置」？這未免太扯，不太可能吧！這個 it 也指剛剛提過的東西，就是男廁嘛！

建議改譯：

……他曾說自己想要「發射一顆核彈瞄準克里姆林宮的男廁，而且一定要擊中」。

感謝幾位網友參與猜謎遊戲，請自行比對看看你猜中了多少。

這個寧可發揮天馬行空的想像力，也不要按部就班遵循基本英文文法思考所導致的爆笑誤譯，跟賴教授「不要給譯者留活口」的驚世之語，頗有異曲同工之妙：兩人皆是「語不驚人誓不休」（這正好也是書名）！

這樁兒事得來的教訓：

1. 把心用在理解原文和文法，這是翻譯首要的基本功，沒有之一，沒有替代的捷徑。Cue 一下賴教授。

2. 想像力無法控制，很危險，一定要謹記你的角色在哪，不要逾矩。

3. 再好的譯者（如這位陳信宏，中文文筆極佳，我注意欣賞已久，算是英倫哲學才子作家Alan de Botton的「欽定」譯者）都必定有盲點，都一定會出包。所以，任何翻譯都應該找有能力對照原文審核者來過目一次。這是對台灣出版社最衷心的建議。

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//Goldwater, in his heart, believed that he was right. Right about the waste and distaste of the “welfare state” the Johnson administration had built. Right about the need for absolute military strength in the face of Soviet expansion. Right about a foreign policy that would make George Bush’s look downright friendly.
高華德內心深信自己是對的。他認為詹森政府建立的「福利國家」不僅揮霍資源，而且令人厭惡；他認為美國面對蘇聯的擴張，必須建構絕對的軍事實力；而且，他心目中的外交政策強硬至極，與他相比，連小布希都顯得太過友善。

Yes, Goldwater was an extremist and proud of it. His Republican convention acceptance speech is best remembered for the line “I would remind you that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.”
的確，高華德是個極端主義者，並且以此為傲。他在共和黨代表大會上發表的接受提名演說當中，最令人難忘的一句話就是：「提醒各位，為了捍衛自由而採行的極端主義並非壞事。」

On the subject of foreign policy he was crystal clear about where he would lead the nation. Simply put: leave the United Nations and never look back, break off all relations with the Soviet Union, and use tactical nuclear bombs to fight communists in Vietnam and other Commie strongholds. Not surprisingly, many of his proclamations during the campaign were outrageous. He was quoted as saying he’d like to “lob one into the men’s room of the Kremlin and make sure I hit it.”
在外交政策方面，他清楚表明自己將會把國家帶往什麼方向。簡單說，就是毫不留戀地退出聯合國，斷絕與蘇聯的一切關係，並且利用戰術核子武器攻打越共以及其他共匪巢穴。不出意料，他在選戰期間提出的許多宣言都令人震驚。據傳他曾說自己很想「丟一顆石頭到克里姆林宮的男廁裡，打中他那話兒」。

Small wonder Johnson’s only concern was the extent of the landslide to come. The Democrats quickly seized upon Goldwater’s “let’s nuke ’em when we have the chance” philosophy and came up with their own unofficial slogan to counter “In Your Heart You Know He’s Right.” Their retort: “In Your Guts You Know He’s Nuts.” It didn’t stop there. Bumper stickers appeared with “Goldwater for Halloween” and “Vote for Goldwater and Go to War.”
難怪詹森不怕落敗，只怕贏得不夠多。民主黨緊抓高華德「一有機會就用核彈炸翻他們」的想法，故意惡搞他的口號：「你心知肚明這傢伙瘋了。」不只如此，當時還出現了不少保險桿貼紙，內容包括：「一票投給高華德，天天都是萬聖節」或者「想上戰場，就選高華德」。

To top it all off, the Johnson advertising team created the famous “Daisy” commercial. It showed a little girl plucking petals from a daisy as a nuclear countdown ends in a huge mushroom cloud explosion. President Johnson’s voiceover was, roughly, “vote for me or God help us all.”
此外，詹森的宣傳團隊還攝製了著名的「雛菊」廣告。畫面上只見一名小女孩在核彈攻擊倒數的同時拔著一朵雛菊的花瓣，倒數結束後，隨即轟然出現爆炸後的巨大蕈狀雲。詹森總統的旁白大致上是說：「請投我一票，不然只好祈求上帝保佑了。」//

#對照原文審校翻譯不可少

从老公的角度看试管婴儿疗程

当一对夫妻要做 #IVF试管疗程时，做丈夫的应该用什么态度来面对？常常有网友告诉我说，我的老公精子不好，可是他还是不能戒烟戒酒，好不配合。要知道，不孕症不只是女人的责任，男人也是有责任。这篇文章，是以男人的角度出发，里面分享身为丈夫应该如何帮助太太一起度过疗程，文章是英文内容，是奥莉爸爸写的，奥莉爸不会中文。分享给大家😊

IVF Journey, A Husband’s Perspective

Hi all, before reading further I would like to say this is NOT an instruction or tips for IVF and hopefully readers will understand my poorly written English. This is my journey as a father of the IVF baby girl. Why am I sharing all this? It is because my wife had a Facebook page of her IVF journey at https://facebook.com/ivfjourney2015/ and she told me that majorities (not all but most) feedback indicate husband not supportive enough to commit into a journey of IVF. I’m not a true supportive husband either, least I made up my mind to make it happen.

Let’s start with “Why IVF?”
We went for a fertilization test and results with;
Husband: Teratospermia (Human language, sperm is weak for fertilization process)
Wife: Unexplained infertility (I think this is easy to understand, there is for the confirming reason for this result and we don’t go for further test after it because it will consumes too much time and money)

We married and planned to have children late 2011, both our ages were 37 in 2015 because of late marriage. My wife introduced IVF because she does not want to give up and feels regretful in future and so do I. Maybe because I did too many regretful things in the past, now I do not want this happened to my wife. At least I do it better then ignoring it.

Preparation for IVF
Financially, I know it will involve amount of 20k – 30k “Ringgit Malaysia” in the whole process depending on the situation and this is only one chance for me. I don’t have the money for a second attempt because I need to allocate funds for delivery if success.

Mentally, I do some studies/research on IVF. The whole journey took 50 days and in one of the process my wife needs to do a self-injection daily. I quickly asked my wife “Daily injection?! Do I need to fetch you to clinic daily to do this?” She answered “No, we need to do this ourselves”. A final question from me going to be “How?!” After we sat down and discuss, we comes into conclusion and I will do the injection for her. This was the most painful and nervous moment I ever experience by poking a needle to my wife’s belly EVERYDAY!

Lifestyle, 6 months earlier. My wife told me the NO’s, NO alcohol NO smoking NO midnight wandering NO stress. I said, I will fly up to the skies like butterfly if I able to do all the NO’s. It’s like a mission impossible. How can a man like me not go out to social with friends without alcohol and smoke? The joke was sleeping early! You want me to social with my friends in breakfast or lunch time? At this time, she softly said “I really wants to have a cute baby in future, it looks more like a family. Furthermore, I don’t want to have regretful moments in future”. All these words came out of my love (wife), her words melted in my heart deeply. I told her “Ok, we will go for it BUT you will need to promise me ONE IMPORTANT thing. No matter the process success or not we only have one attempt we need to accept the truth and live happily without regret in future.” she agreed.

Commitment, this is not some empty promise. I made a huge commitment to change my lifestyle into zero alcohol, tobacco and lesser stress. If comparing the pain and suffers my wife will take in this journey e.g., injection, medication effects, hormone changes and all the effects from pregnancies to delivery, mine looks more alike small potatoes (looks much more simple). Trust me guys, don't compare it, if you do and more likely you're going loose badly. For the sake of making a better future, I had fulfilled this commitment.

IVF Journey Phase 1 “Unskilled Husband Injection”
Day 1, doctor consults us for Buserelin injection. I need to inject this medication into my wife's belly each day sharp at 8AM. The nurse had guided me side by side to do the first injection.
Day 2, I started my first injection to my wife's belly without anyone guiding beside. Feels a bit nervous because this time I'm doing it all by myself. I try to hum some music to distract my wife's from looking at the needle while injecting but still she is looking at it.
Day 3 - Day 15, sometime the injection hurting and causes bleeding/bruise to her. I need to find a new spot to inject every time and sees her bruise makes my pain in the heart too. My injection skills improved dramatically. She even told me that she doesn't feel pain like the beginning stages.
Day 16, follow up 2nd checkup. Doctor said, everything goes smoothly and added another medication to inject called Gonal-F to take home and start injecting on day 23. This message never surprises me because I've been told earlier, but just that the price to pay for this medication is quite costly.
Day 17 - Day 22, nothing much on these days and we just stick on the plan as usual.

IVF Journey Phase 2 “Stressful Night”
Day 23, Gonal F injections start today. This needle doesn't look same as those earlier, it comes with medication in it and look like a pen.
Day 24 - Day 26, side effects of the Gonal F medications started. My wife is feeling irritation at the injection site, fullness, bloating and tenderness in the lower abdomen due to the increasing size of the ovaries. Her mood changes dramatically as I can tell, but she endures it and tell me she can handle it.
Day 27, follow up 3rd checkup. Doctor said wife has eggs total of 12 and is ready for Transvaginal oocyte retrieval "Human language, Egg retrieval" at day 31.
Day 28 - Day 29, final injection of Gonal F. At day 29 night, I inject Ovidrel to wife belly to that causes the growth and release of a mature egg (ovulation) for day 31.
Day 30, resting whole day. Finally, we had a day without injection and worrying about holding any needles. Today we wondering about the egg growth, not knowing will the eggs grow more or still the same amount of 12.
Day 31, egg retrieval. 8 egg success retrieves and I give out my sperm for oocytes selection on the same day. Wife given cyclogest for oval protection after the egg retrieval.

IVF Journey Phase 3 “Hopeful Embryo Culture & Embryo Transfer”
Day 32 - Day 35, rest at home. We had pillow talk every night concerning about the growth of an embryo. We also look at sample growth stages of an embryo from the web to see what the current growth stage is.
Day 36, another hopeful and nervous morning. Doctor tells us the result of embryo culture as below;
Total Embryo Retrieve: 8
Embryo Qualified for ICSI: 6
Embryo Success until Cleavage Stage (Day 2 – Day 4): 3
Embryo Success until Blastocyst Stage (Day 5): 2
Embryo Qualified / Recommended for Transfer: 1
Both our eyes looked at each other, knowing only 1 Blastocyst Embryo available to transfer and doctor tell the same after it. I really do not know how to express both our feelings into words here, as we expected to have at least 2 Blastocyst out of 8 embryos and only left 1. We both agreed to proceed this only 1 Blastocyst transfer as this is the only choice we had. It's more likely walking on a 100ft tall string with no supports mission, a single error will fail the mission.
After the transfer process, wife given a room to rest for few hours. A nurse came and give us adjunctive medications, injections and advice while resting at room.

IVF Journey Phase 4 “The Final Moment of IVF”
Day 37 - Day 49, after the transfer. This period is known as 2WW (2 Weeks Wait) with adjunctive medications, injections and be very careful. I just let her sleep/rest more on the bed, I served her every meal in the room. We're also nervous and curious about pregnancy results on day 44, we tested with cheap pregnancy tester and get got a double line on it and we do have a little hope and joy with this result. On day 47, again we test, but this time with expensive pregnancy tester and the results double line again! We're so hopeful and happy at this moment. We really hope this result is true until the next checkup.
Day 50, final checkup. My wife goes for the hCG test by giving a sample of blood, we waited 2 hours for the results. While waiting, nurse guide us to a room to rest. Wife slept and I sat beside concerned on the hCG test results. 2 hours later, the doctor invited us to look for him. Before doctor speaks, while we are sitting down, my wife's eyes were starring in the hCG results number and she spotted the hCG number is 452. She smiles happily while doctor tells her "You are pregnant and congratulations! Come back after 2 weeks to scan for baby heartbeats. And please go out to the counter and ring the bell!”

Just Sharing My Thoughts
By all means, I’m not bragging about my success. I would like to say if anyone is planning on IVF, teamwork is very important and husband play a very important role to increase the success rate. Sometimes, I do feel like a spectator than a participant myself because I never experience any of the medical exams but this is not true. Every injection I put on her belly, I feel the pain in my heart as bad as she has on the belly. Ok, nothing much to share in this IVF journey and next time I might be sharing another journey as a Father! Here is my little baby girl Facebook page奥莉 Olivia Baby - 梁童心心 https://fb.me/oliviababylove if you wish to see her growth updates.

End.

#ivf #ivfmalaysia #ivfjourney #baby #alphafertility

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在妖精國不列顛的圓桌騎士，其中一角。
在汎用人類史中是著名在圓桌騎士‧崔斯坦的妖精騎士。
是支配異聞帶不列顛女王摩根的『女兒』，作為後繼者受到了優遇。
在魔術不必要的不列顛中，被當作魔女所培育，兩名妖精的其中一名。

身高/體重：170cm‧54kg。
出典：英國妖精史，以及異聞帶不列顛
地域：妖精國，達靈頓附近。
屬性：混沌‧惡 性別：女

「外貌最棒，性格最糟☆
這誇獎的超讚的啦～！雖然是被我弄的亂七八糟的人的臨死慘叫就是了！」

妖精的名字是Baobhan sith。
在蘇格蘭傳承的女性妖精。
意義就跟字面上一樣是女性“妖精”。
夜晚會出現吸收人類的生命，甚至會致死。
喜歡鮮血，害怕日光。
大多數的妖精同時有著『益』跟『害』的特質，
但Baobhan sith是只有『害』特質的惡性妖精。
外貌看起來是人類的美女，在長長的裙擺之下隱藏的是妖精的腳，
那個腳跟又被稱作『鹿蹄』。

○ 性格
外交，能動的。
自己的欲求不會害羞的說出口，為了實現而指使周遭人的支配者氣質。
剎那的快樂主義，只要現在這瞬間心情好就好。
像是妖精一樣喜歡快樂的事情，她所知道的『快樂』只有弱者的痛苦聲音而已，
這結果導致不論人類‧妖精，只要是弱小的人都會去玩弄，踐踏他們的行為。
（沒有被任何人所愛，並且，身為「母親」的摩根只有在「虐待弱者的時候」
才會誇獎她，導致她認為這是快樂的事情。）
是由希望被母親所愛而努力的少女形象，以及總有一天會變成自己東西的王國，
將其視為玩具的公主傲慢所融合成的魔女之娘。
看見行善以及漂亮的事情會打從心底覺得不開心，徹底的去辱罵。
理由是「這當然是我覺得無聊啊」這樣。

○ 對魔力：EX。
絕對不會扭曲自己的作法，不去汙辱，不會屈服的妖精騎士崔斯坦的對魔力
發揮了規格外的強悍。

○ 騎乘：A
並非騎乘著什麼東西，而是用自己的腳在大地奔馳的妖精騎士崔斯坦有著騎乘技能。

○ 陣地作成：A
因為在妖精界被作為魔術師所教育，對於製作工房也很擅長。

○ 受祝福繼承者：EX
作為女王摩根的女兒受認可的她，與摩根一樣有著『支配的王權』。
就像是在汎人類史有著『對騎士王的諫言』的騎士一樣，
有著能夠對摩根提出意見的空間支配能力。（瑪那的支配圈）

○ 貓使魔（grimalkin）：A
英格蘭所傳承的魔女足跡，灌上貓妖精之名的技能。
並非是妖精騎士，或許是她本來的特性吧，不知道為什麼冠上了其他妖精的名字。

『痛幻之哭奏』
RANK：E 種類：對人寶具
距離：無限 最大捕捉：1人
Fetch‧Failnaught

不管對象有多遠都沒有關係，必定會咒殺的魔之一擊（親吻）。
對象肉體的一部分（頭髮，指甲等）來製作出『對象的分身』，
將那分身殺掉來咒殺本人，也就像是妖精版‧丑時參拜一樣。
另外，所謂的Fetch在英格蘭就是所謂的分身。

對大部分的事情都沒有興趣，對於只把場面搞亂有興趣的Baobhan sith，
對貝利爾所說的『汎人類史的文明』很感興趣，也開始流行起模仿汎人類史
的事情。

「在有歷史的城堡來進行軍隊活動的淘汰賽不是很有趣嗎？
當然除了第一名以外的懲罰遊戲就是全部殺光囉☆」

在這過程中著迷在汎人類史的「靴（高跟鞋）」，變成靴子的收藏家。
關於靴子的事情會很真摯，純粹的去努力，抱著將來會比汎人類史的任何一個職人
做出更帥靴子的夢想。
……像這樣Baobhan sith（公主陛下）的寢室，有著從腳跟切下，
被做成收藏妖精們的赤腳，像是寶物一樣的坐鎮其中。

#FGO #妖精騎士崔斯坦

現實超人 中文版：https://youtu.be/6pxbwn1MEOo

新加坡創作男神JERIC陳傑瑞，延續上一首EDM高能量單曲《是英雄的站出來》後，這次新單曲《Real-world Superman 》是希望大家去正視霸凌帶來的傷害，以及鼓勵更多反霸凌的「現實超人」們出現！

時代進步、科技發達，便利與自由卻造就網路的言論傷害尤其嚴重！陳傑瑞還說：「應該不只是我有這樣的感受，光想到學生、小孩被惡劣霸凌的畫面，自己內心都會忍不住吶喊著⋯這首歌就是那個聲音，那些吶喊。」
我們都有拯救另外一個人的力量；都能是另一個人的現實超人，那為何不成為他們的英雄呢！

這次陳傑瑞擔任反霸凌聯盟慈善團體CABCY 的「音樂大使」，他非常感恩。更表示欣慰與開心的是，香港小天后鄧紫棋G.E.M專程飛到新加坡，和近百位粉絲一起為反霸凌聯盟慈善團體CABCY 站台與募款。陳傑瑞不只是藉由音樂為霸凌事件的受害者發聲，希望能夠喚醒更多善良與勇敢為社會帶來更多正能量。

*CABCY 反兒童青少年霸凌聯盟是一家非盈利機構，創辦十年來，致力於提高大眾對霸凌的認識，並推動了在2015年新加坡法律所通過的反騷擾法案。


Real-world Superman
詞: 陳傑瑞 Jeric
曲: 陳傑瑞 Jeric

There was a time where no one got hurt
Pretty smiles and lovely faces
And heroes wore a cape

Then came a time of mass abuses
From the physical to verbal
Hearing things without a face

Well it will be too late if we wait
Looking for reasons or who to blame
It will be too late if we do nothing at all
It will be too late if we wait
Hoping all the hate would just dissipate
It will be too late if we do nothing at all

Chorus 1
I can fetch all your tears
I will mend your sorrows
Be the hero to hold on
To shield you from the stones

Some people dissin’ laughin’
But there are children hurting crying
So I’ll be the hero
To love em’ to save em’
A real-world superman

Verse 2
While we are searching for a meaning
The pain has got no reason
It’s time to turn the page

Well it will be too late if we wait
Looking for reasons or who to blame
It will be too late if we do nothing at all
It will be too late if we wait
There really are lives we can save
It will be too late if we do nothing at all

Chorus x1

Reprise
Where is the love that we all feel should be around?
Could it just be forgotten and buried deep down?
Do we have time to make a change? Ref, please tell!
Cos’ we just need to bring him out oh
It will be too late if we wait
It will be too late

Chorus 3
Father Father Father
Please give me the power
To be the hero to hold on
To shield them from the stones
Some people dissin’ laughin’
But there are children hurting crying
So let’s be the hero
To love em’ to save em’

Chorus 4
And I can fetch all your tears
I will mend your sorrows
Be the hero to hold on
To shield you from the stones
Some people dissin’ laughin’
But there are children hurting crying
So I’ll be the hero
To love em’ to save em’ to fix em’
Do all that I can
To lift em’ and to give em’
A real-world superman
A real-world superman

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平台:PS4 發售日：2014/8/26

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