拍攝時間：2021/03/20 09：00 am
tear down 拆毀
（注意tear 當動詞跟當名詞時發音不同喔）
overpass 天橋
地下道怎麼說呢？
underpass
#基隆ㄧ信橋

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🖐🏽 五分鐘來關心國際時事— 美國奧勒岡大火 🇺🇸

📰 West Coast Fires Fueled by Winds as Dangers Continue
Blazes tear through small towns; ‘It looks like a bomb went off’

📌 這篇文章關於美國西岸 (West Coast)大火，這些大火是被風激起的 (fueled by winds)，危險持續存在 (dangers continue)。blaze (烈火) 是fire的同義詞。

TALENT, Ore.—Residents and officials have begun surveying the vast destruction in Oregon’s small towns while gusty winds and low humidity continue to propel wildfires that have burned millions of acres and displaced thousands of people across the Western U.S.
Conditions remain dire, and a top Oregon official said Tuesday that control of the conflagrations—two of which have been burning since mid-August—could still be weeks away.

📌 這兩段說明居民 (residents) 和官員 (officials) 已經開始調查(survey) 美國 Oregon 的小鎮 (small towns) 廣泛破壞 (vast destruction)。大風 (gusty winds) 和 低潮濕 (low humidity) 繼續推動(propel) 野火wildfires）。displace是常見的動詞。當地一位高級官員說還要幾個星期才可以控制大火災O (conflagrations)。

At least 34 people have been killed so far in the wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington state, part of a wider outbreak that has scorched more than 4.7 million acres in 11 states, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. In California alone, an area larger than the state of Connecticut has been burned this summer.
The National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning early Tuesday for parts of Northern California and Oregon, indicating extreme fire conditions exacerbated by wind and drier air.

📌 這兩段告訴讀者，在美國三個州的野火，到目前為止，至少奪走34條人命。這些野火是更大的爆發 (wider outbreak)，影響了美國11個州。國家氣象局 (the National Weather Service) 發出紅旗警告 (Red Flag Warning)，表示極端大火狀況 (extreme fire conditions)，會因為風和乾燥的空氣 (drier air) 而惡化 (exacerbate)。

On Tuesday, Sandra Spelliscy, Talent’s city manager, toured the streets, passing by whole neighborhoods and commercial areas that were destroyed last week. “Half of Talent is gone,” she said.
About 700 homes and businesses were leveled in the city of 6,400 people, and officials estimate that as many as 20% of them are now without a place to live. Ms. Spelliscy and her staff are still tallying up the financial losses. “I cannot even begin to wrap my head around what it’s going to take for the city to get through this, to recover financially,” she said.

📌 這兩段報導城市經理 (city manager) (即負責管理城市的官員) 參觀街道，經過上周被破壞的鄰近地區 (neighborhoods) 和商業區(commercial areas)。市内約7000個家 (homes) 和事業(businesses)被夷平 (leveled)，其中20%無家可歸 (without a place to live)。tally up (計算)、financial losses (財務損失) 和 wrap one’s head around something (明白某東西)是道地用語。

A day earlier, Michael “TonTon” Antonopoulos surveyed the twisted metal, charred beams and piles of ash that were the remains of TonTon’s Artisan Affections, his cafe known for its vegan Mediterranean food and lively parties.

“It looks like a bomb went off,” the 50-year-old Mr. Antonopoulos said.
The cafe was wiped out along with hundreds of other businesses in Talent and neighboring Phoenix by last week’s fast-moving Almeda Drive Fire, which also killed four people. A downtown stretch where TonTon’s once stood along with several other shops is now a smoky ruin. The bookstore, the antique store and another building that Mr. Antonopoulos was turning into an event space are all gone.

📌 這三段引述一家咖啡店 (cafe) 老闆一天前視察 (survey) 店的殘餘(remains)。他說破壞像炸彈爆發 (a bomb goes off)。wipe out (徹底摧毀)也是常見的片語。

未完待續...

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The Statue Debate 美國拆除雕像事件

最近的黑人權利抗議已經延燒到拆除雕像上，本週美國大小事，跟你細數美國近年的拆除雕像事件。進入文章前，先來看看相關的單字～

1. Confederate「南方邦聯（的）」：指美國南北戰爭時期代表南方的南方邦聯政府。
2. monument「紀念碑」
3. honor「表彰」
4. slavery「奴隸制」：slave指「奴隸」。
5. relic「遺跡」
6. take down「拆除」：相似的動詞片語還有tear down, poll down。
7. Founding Father「美國開國元勳」：指對美國建國有重大意義的偉大人物，具體來說，就是簽署美國獨立宣言和美國憲法的政府領導人以及參與美國革命的領袖。
8. contribution「貢獻」

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing movement in the U.S. to remove monuments to Confederate soldiers and politicians from public places. Those who support removal believe that statues honoring Confederate figures, who fought against their own country to preserve slavery, shouldn’t be allowed to stand. Those who are against removal say that historic relics, even those that are symbols of a dark period in the country’s history, should remain as a reminder to future generations.
過去幾十年來，美國掀起了拆除南方邦聯軍人及政治人物雕像的運動，拆除雕像的運動也越演越烈。支持拆除的民眾認為，南方邦聯為了保留蓄奴制度而跟自己國家對抗，因此表彰南方邦的雕像不應該保存。反對拆除雕像的人則認為，這些具歷史意義的遺跡即使代表某個黑暗歷史，也應該保留下來，讓後世作為警惕。

The pace of statue removal began to increase around 2009, and reached a peak in 2017, when a total of 36 were taken down. That year, the mayors of both New Orleans and Baltimore had all of the Confederate statues in their cities removed. And since the police killing of George Floyd in May, 2020, a new wave of removals has begun.
拆除雕像活動大約在2009年開始增加，並在2017年達到高峰，那一年有36座雕像遭到拆除，而紐奧良與巴爾的摩市長雙雙將自家城市裡的南方邦聯雕像全數拆除。2020年5月發生警察殺死佛洛依德事件之後，新一波的拆除雕像活動又開始了。

Some of these actions have been legal. A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was removed from the Kentucky State Capitol on June 13, and a statue of slave-owning politician John C. Calhoun was taken away from a public square in Charleston, South Carolina on June 24.
有些拆除行動是合法的。如位於肯塔基州議會大廈的南方邦聯總統傑佛遜紀念雕像，便在6月13日拆除，又或是站立在南卡羅萊納州查爾斯頓市公共廣場上的蓄奴政客凱爾宏的雕像，也在6月24日拆除。

But in other cases, protestors have taken matters into their own hands. Protestors tore down a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in front of a high school in Montgomery, Alabama on June 1, toppled a statue of Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia on June 10, and removed two statues from the North Carolina Confederate Monument in Raleigh on June 19.
不過，其他可就是由抗議者自己動手解決了。6月1日，阿拉巴馬州蒙哥馬利市一所高中前的南方邦聯將軍李羅伯特雕像遭到抗議者拆毀；6月10日，維吉尼亞州里奇蒙市的傑佛遜總統雕像遭推倒；6月19日，北卡羅納州羅利市南方邦聯紀念碑的兩座雕像也遭拆毀。

But protestors haven’t stopped at the removal of Confederate statues. On June 14, a group of demonstrators pulled down a statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of a high school in Portland, Oregon. And several days later, in another part of Portland, a crowd gathered around a statue of George Washington, lit an American flag on his head, and then pulled it down with a rope.
不過，這些反對者沒有把拆除目標局限在南方邦聯雕像。6月14日，一群抗議者將奧勒岡州波特蘭一所中學前的湯瑪斯傑佛遜總統雕像拆毀。幾天之後，群眾聚集在波特蘭另一處的華盛頓總統雕像前，將一面美國國旗放在雕像頭上並點火，接著用繩子將雕像拉倒。

Why would anyone want to tear down statues of these two Founding Fathers? Despite their many contributions to America’s founding, they both owned hundreds of slaves during their lifetime, although Washington did free his slaves in his will. Should statues of historic figures like Washington and Jefferson remain because of their positive achievements, or should they be removed because they owned slaves? This is a debate with no easy answers.
為什麼會有人想毀壞這兩位開國元勳的雕像呢？雖然他們對建立美國有許多貢獻，但他們兩人在世時皆擁有數百名奴隸，儘管華盛頓在遺囑上寫了釋放他的奴隸。華盛頓和傑佛遜這類歷史人物的雕像該因為正面貢獻保留，還是該因為他們蓄奴而拆除？這項爭論恐怕沒有簡單的結論。

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本集 timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:47 第一遍英文朗讀
2:54 新聞 & 相關單字解說
16:19 額外單字片語
22:13 第二遍英文朗讀

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朗讀內容參考了
👉 Human Rights Watch：https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/08/13/protesters-police-clash-thailand-vaccine-protests
👉 Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/health-coronavirus-pandemic-4c11cb1a929ffbe0c6b15fd446ef9172
👉 Bangkok Post: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2164983/fresh-protest-met-with-rubber-bullets-tear-gas-again
👉 Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/14/three-injured-as-thai-police-fire-rubber-bullets-at-bangkok-rally

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本集提到的單字片語：
Haiti 海地
Earthquake 地震
Thailand 泰國
Bangkok 曼谷
Demonstration Alert  示威警報
Reform 改革
Demonstration(s) 遊行
Protest(s) 抗議
Demonstrators 遊行者
Protestors 抗議者
Rally 一大群人的集會
Riot 暴動
Rioters 暴動的人、暴徒
Rotting fruit 腐爛水果
Symbolise 象徵
Prime minister 總理
Barbed wire 帶刺的鐵絲網
Shipping containers 貨櫃
Rubber bullets 橡皮子彈 / 橡膠子彈
Tear gas 催淚瓦斯
Water cannons 水砲
Anti-government protest 反政府抗議活動
Breach(es) 違反
Press charges 起訴
Heavy-handedness 粗暴的手段
Jeopardize (UK 拼法 jeopardise) 危害
Ping pong bombs 乒乓球炸彈
Slingshots 彈弓
Bricks 磚塊
Firecrackers 鞭炮
Lockdown 封鎖
Resign 辭職 / 下台
Constitution 憲法
Monarchy 君主制度
Contentious 有爭議的
Prayuth Chan-ocha 泰國總理
Martial law 戒嚴
Royalist 保皇主義
King Maha Vajiralongkorn 泰國現任國王
Unheard of 聞所未聞的
Thai(s) 泰國人
Playboy 花花公子
Constitutional monarchy 君主立憲制
Bhumibol Adulyadej 泰國上一任國王
Coup d’état(s) 軍事政變
Enough
Sufficient
Adequate
Inadequate
Anxious 焦慮
Mantra 口號、咒語


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上次同大家講到，要練好英文的文筆，就要多看優美的文字，不要把閱讀限於課本，或報紙，或雜誌。應該多找經典文字，讀莎士比亞可以，讀Charles Dickens可以，要像我們學中文讀古文一樣，多讀，多感受文字之美。只讀還不夠，有心的話，還應該背誦。上次蕭叔叔分享了蘇格蘭作家Andrew Lang寫的兒童讀物Tales of Troy and Greece裡面其中一段描寫戰爭的段落，文筆氣勢磅礡，讓蕭叔叔看的血脈沸騰。上回講到，希臘戰將Patroclus戰死沙場；今次這一段，是說之前因個人爭執而拒絕出戰的Achilles，要為好友Patroclus報仇。他說：I will not cease from fighting till I have given the Trojans their fill of war. 我不打到他們落花流水，誓不收兵。

Thrice Achilles shouted mightily, and thrice the horses of the Trojans shuddered for fear and turned back from the onslaught - and thrice the men of Troy were confounded and shaken with terror.

一落場，Achilles（蕭叔叔喜歡叫他「希臘呂布」，因為都是一樣萬夫莫敵。）大叫三聲，頗有三國張飛在長板橋喝倒曹軍戰馬的氣勢。留意作者把thrice一字放前，能加強氣勢：Thrice Achilles shouted mightily, and thrice… 這樣寫，比Achilles shouted thrice mightily強得多了。然後Achilles同敵將Hector大戰，Hector快輸了，他大叫：

“Let me not die without honour!” and drew his sword, and rushed at Achilles, who sprang to meet him, but before Hector could come within a sword-stroke Achilles had sent his spear clean through the neck of Hector.

Hector把長矛掉失了，只有靠手中短劍，但未埋身，就被Achilles的矛刺破喉嚨。留意這段的動詞，非常生動，drew，rushed，sprang，sent his spear clean through等等。

He fell in the dust and Achilles said, “Dogs and birds shall tear your flesh unburied.”

幾惡毒！我不會為你收屍，就讓你的屍體在戰場暴曬，讓野狗野鳥吃你的肉吧。Dogs and birds shall tear your flesh unburied. 好厲害，好簡單，好直接的文字。

With his dying breath Hector prayed him to take gold from Priam, and give back his body to be burned in Troy. But Achilles said, “Hound! would that I could bring myself to carve and eat thy raw flesh, but dogs shall devour it, even if thy father offered me thy weight in gold.”

Hector哀求Achilles，把我的屍身送回我城吧，我爹會給你黃金。Achilles說，狗賊！即使你爹給我跟你屍身一樣重的黃金，我都不會把你送回Troy城：even if thy father offered me thy weight in gold。這句，表現了什麼叫簡潔有力的文字。

大家可能會問，我平時有幾可會描述戰爭嘅場景呀？讀呢啲文章，又有乜用？咁睇就錯了，多讀文筆流麗的文字，不但能培養英語文字的節奏感，也能學習多變得用字和造句，以及靈活運用文字的spirit，這些都是多讀多背經典文字的好處。先背了吧，以後寫作時，文氣會不經不覺地「滲」出來。 Http://www.facebook.com/siuhoiyat