Big Fat Lies

“多數情況下，保持心血管健康遠比僅僅知道自己的體重更能預測死亡風險，”《大謊言》(Big Fat Lies)作者、亞利桑那州立大學(Arizona State University)健康生活研究中心(Healthy Lifestyles Research Center)主任格倫·加瑟爾(Glenn Gaesser)說。

In ‘Obesity Paradox,’ Thinner May Mean Sicker
By HARRIET BROWN October 08, 2012

HC: 《肥胖的大謊言》(Big Fat Lies)

abandon

有時候翻譯是我們用字的習慣
譬如說 下文abandon 翻譯成"廢除" (廢止棄除。如：「廢除不平等條約。」--教育部國語辭典)
這不合我的習慣 我用"放棄"

《中英對照讀新聞》Monday blues are a myth, say academics 學者說星期一憂鬱是迷思

◎管淑平
It is a myth that we are at our most miserable at the beginning of the week, according to academics. People’s moods on Mondays are actually no worse than on any other week day barring Friday, a survey found.
根據學者說法，我們在一週開始這天最難熬的說法是迷思。一份調查發現，除週五外，人們週一的心情其實不比其他週間日還糟。
The popular fixation on the idea of "Blue Monday" should be given the status of a "cultural myth", the team behind the new findings wrote in the Journal of Positive Psychology.
提出這項新結論的研究團隊在「正面心理學」期刊上寫道，應該給予「憂鬱週一」這種普遍的固有想法「文化迷思」地位。
"Despite our global beliefs about lousy Mondays, we conclude that this belief should be abandoned," said lead researcher Prof Arthur Stone, of Stony Brook University in New York state.
「儘管我們普遍存有週一日子難過的看法，但我們認定應該廢除這種看法」，研究負責人紐約州立大學石溪分校教授亞瑟．史東說。
Prof Stone and colleagues analysed data collected by Gallup from more than 340,000 American citizens in telephone interviews.
史東教授和同事分析蓋洛普以電話訪問34萬多名美國人所收集的資料。
The respondents were asked whether or not they had felt enjoyment, happiness, worry, sadness, stress and anger during much of the previous day.
受訪者被詢問前一天中大部分時間是否感到欣喜、高興、擔心、難過、壓力和憤怒。
Not surprisingly, the results showed that people reported far more positive feelings and fewer negative feelings on Saturdays and Sundays compared with week days.
不令人意外的，結果顯示，人們在週六和週日的心情，比週間那幾天正面的多、負面的少。
"The perception of Blue Mondays is likely prevalent due to the extreme contrast in mood from Sunday to Monday, even though there is no real difference in mood with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday", said Stone.
「可能是從週日到週一心情上的極端對比，讓大家普遍有憂鬱星期一的觀念，儘管實際上週一的心情與週二、週三和週四其實沒有差別」，史東說。

sentiments vs emotional

Journals 1889-1949 by Andre Gide, London: Penguin Books, pp.87-88, Paris , 8 August, 1905

 'The sensation is always sincere; it is the only guarantee of the authenticity of our sentiments;our sentiments are guaranteed by their physiological repercussions. Literature and fine arts ( in modern times)  have, for their own convenience, made man a much more emotional creature than he is, or than he was at least, for very soon man began to conform to the image that he was offered of himself.'


 It is odd how the stock of Humanity has risen on the market since the Greek, or even since Shakespeare. Nothing does more harm to drama than this excessive evaluation.

sentiments翻譯成感情可以
上文 emotional 不要也跟著又用"感情的"  如詹譯
建議: "更容易為情所激發"等

1 Peter 4:3-5 的幾個翻譯

The Quick and the Dead is an English phrase originating in the Christian Bible and popularized by the Apostles' Creed, one of the earliest statements of faith in the Christian religion and still one of the most widely used in worship.
The phrase is found in three passages in the King James version of the Bible: in the Acts of the Apostles, (Acts 10:42),Paul's letters to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:1) and also in the First Epistle of Peter, which reads

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

1 Peter 4:3–5

(思高聖經)

過去的時候，你們實行外教人的慾望，生活在放蕩、情慾、酗酒、宴樂、狂飲和違法的偶像崇拜中，這已經夠了！

由於你們不再同他們狂奔於淫蕩的洪流中，他們便引以為怪，遂誹謗你們；

但他們要向那已準備審判生死者的主交賬。

 the quick and the dead, suffice, lasciviousness,
英文兩冒號令我有點困惑  末句的who 究竟是我們還是他們

再查其他英文翻譯  New King James 的解決標點上的困惑

1 Peter 4:3-5

New King James Version (NKJV)

³ For we have spent enough of our past lifetime^[a] in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. ⁴ In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you. ⁵ They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 

1 Peter 4:3-5

New International Version (NIV)

³ For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. ⁴ They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you. ⁵ But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

佳作: 梁永安新譯三書 : 回憶的餘燼。大都會。多少才算夠？

 梁永安新譯回憶的餘燼  (中文書名The Sense of An Ending
"翻譯" 不佳  本書梁先生的注多很精彩)
廣告詞 (美國各界書評的摘要) 似乎有點誇張  第二部比較精彩多了

多少才算夠？：日本佛教界政經學 (我稍翻過此書後所改的副標題)



(on the nail, hangnail, agnail)

-----  Don Delillo 大都會( Cosmopolis) 梁永安譯， 台北：寶瓶文化出版社，2012， 頁63

梁永安譯的 唐．德里羅的小說都很不錯，不過這類的小說也需要大量的歐美文化不(含系統/統計和財經等等)背景。馬克．羅斯科(Mark Rothko) 和教堂的故事: Rothko wanted only that his canvases make people cry  《羅斯科傳》Mark Rothko, A Biography

譯者可能將Arnold's Culture and Anarchy一書的 Sweetness and light - Wikipedia,

翻錯: “我喜愛數據， 那是我們的光和甜心。” (53頁)

一.

梁永安新譯三書 : 回憶的餘燼。大都會。多少才算夠？：日本佛教政經濟學