the agency and sympathetic humanity of Snow White or Cinderella

.......經過多年家國亂離，讓他對藝術的實踐能量 (agency)與呈現歷史的方式有了不同看法。.....
------王德威《臺大中文學報‧國家不幸書家幸---臺靜農的書法與文學》2009.12，頁1-46

張華：同義詞

by the agency of

prep by way of

·        as a consequence, as a result, at the hand of, because of, by, by dint of, by means of, by reason, by virtue of, for, in consequence of, in virtue of, per, through the medium of, using, via, with

---- Return to Wonderland

Sep 23rd 2014, 17:07 by D.S.K. | NEW YORK

WHEN Walt Disney’s animated version of "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) proved a financial disappointment for the studio, Disney suggested that the problem lay with the character of Alice. She lacked, he reasoned, the agency and sympathetic humanity of Snow White or Cinderella.

張華

文中第一段最後一句的agency不知作何解？

梁兄："我見猶憐"「我見尤憐」仍然可以成立，而且極佳。順道一說，原文不是說白雪公主我見猶憐，大概是指這片可引發觀眾的（姑且這麼說）人性同情心，故譯文應說「我見猶憐特質」之類。

HC
這agency是促成王子的好事者，前者或是七矮人或玻璃棺，後者是那雙/隻鞋.....
Oxford American Dictionary

action or intervention, esp. such as to product a particular effect.

a thing or person that acts to produce a particular result. 這是我先前的答：貴人相助。

據The Oxford Companion to Children Literature 兩詞條的說明，我的說法還是有點根據。


張華：

這段話是迪斯尼檢討愛麗絲卡通片票房為何不佳的話。案迪斯尼到2013年共有11公主：Merida, Jasmine, Snow White, Fa Mulan, Aurora, Cinderella, Pocahontas, Tiana, Belle, Ariel Rapunzel, Merida, 就是沒有愛麗絲。

經過各位的指教，agency可能就是故事中使女主角轉好運的東西，例如白雪公主中王子的吻，或灰姑娘的玻璃鞋，sympathetic humanity可能就是可憐的身世。愛麗絲都沒有這些。

愛麗絲沒有的還有皆大歡喜的結局。

agency

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Pronunciation: /ˈeɪdʒ(ə)nsi

  

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NOUN

1[OFTEN WITH ADJECTIVE OR NOUN MODIFIER] A business or organization providing a particular service on behalf of another business, person, or group:an advertising agencyaid agencies

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1.1A department or body providing a specific service for a government or other organization:the Environmental Protection Agency

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2[MASS NOUN] Action or intervention producing a particulareffect:canals carved by the agency of running water

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2.1[COUNT NOUN] A thing or person that acts to produce a particular result:the movies could be an agency moulding thevalues of the public

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Origin

mid 17th century: from medieval Latin agentia, fromagent- 'doing' (see agent).

敬贈張華兄The Economist

Countless uninspired retellings have reduced much of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to dull cliché. But two recent productions, both staged in New York, have restored the humanity to the character of Alice and the wit and wonder to Wonderland http://econ.st/1wLi8g8