2018年8月23日 星期四

small fry;From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe




本書在1981年剛出版時,曾經被選為全美的暢銷書。作者Tom Wolfe是紐約著名的藝術評論家,以輕鬆、幽默、嘲諷的口吻,大膽地評論美國建築界的「殖地心態」,從十八世紀、十九世紀開始,對歐洲建築形式的沿用抄襲,從布雜藝術到包浩斯。四O年代,歐洲提出的建築理論,「少即是多」、「零即是無限」,貫穿整個美國的現代建築,所有美國的建築師,無不如將包浩斯的領袖葛羅畢斯,奉為「白色的神祇」,並且火如荼地加入這場聖戰。然而,本書最終的目的,是希望建築師能夠將建築意識,從對外國主義的盲目崇拜,攜回對於「鄉土主義」的嘗試。



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書名可以更清楚點......
• 《小魚苗》( Small Fry ):麗莎·布倫南-喬布斯(Lisa Brennan-Jobs)已經寫好了一本關於其父史蒂夫·喬布斯(Steve Jobs)的回憶錄 。細節佐證了喬布斯的惡劣行徑,但這並非她的初衷。

She writes with disgust about using anecdotes from her childhood to elicit sympathy from others, and she is ashamed to have dropped her father's name during an interview to get into Harvard. 




Small-fry definition is - minor, unimportant. 

Urban Dictionary: small fry

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=small%20fry

a disrespectfull term used to describe any smaller tag along trying to act older or grown up because they want to fit in and gain undeserved respect. its opposite ...

2018年8月22日 星期三

里爾克《祈禱書》 Das waren Tage Michelangelos〈米開蘭基羅的一生〉部分

Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait - Reinhard Bendix 1960


......這個人時限到時
總是會再回到作品
將其價值提升至極限。
高舉其時代重負
投入自己心之悸動。
前人但有喜與哀:
他只能感受生之重量
心靈瞬間掌握萬事如一,—
可其上頭還有超乎意志的神:
神的超驗,他仍深愛,雖怨聲連連。
Das Stundenbunch 里爾克《祈禱書》
Das waren Tage Michelangelos〈米開蘭基羅的一生〉













Common terms and phrases

2018年8月17日 星期五

There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. ”

譯人譯事分享了 1 則貼文

我剛剛真的很無聊去查了《日知錄》,裡面完全找不到這句。希望不要流傳到國外,又變成作者引用的英文名言,回來荼毒我們。
不及格的翻譯,參考後文:



此日知非彼日知

譯人譯事 是Clovis Sangrail的日知錄


“I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. ”


― Saki

2018年8月14日 星期二

年報 VS年鑑; "研究人员正开始去的成功"

アナール学派L'école des AnnalesAnnales School)は、20世紀に大きな影響力を持ったフランス現代歴史学の潮流のひとつ。「アナール」は「年報」の意味で、幾度か誌名を変えながら現在でも発刊が続くフランスの学術誌『社会経済史年報 Annales d'histoire économique et sociale』に集まった歴史家が主導したために、この呼び名がある。

年鑑 - Wikipedia


https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/年鑑
年鑑(ねんかん)とは、年刊の書籍。 ある特定の事柄や分野における一年間の展望や調査結果、統計などを収録して刊行される。 刊行元は中央省庁(ザ・ワールド・ファクトブック)や出版社(ジェーン海軍年鑑)、新聞社(読売年鑑、朝日年鑑、毎日年鑑)など。

年鑑(ねんかん)の意味 - goo国語辞書


https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp › 国語辞書 › 品詞
ねんかん【年鑑とは。意味や解説、類語。ある事柄について、その1年間の展望・調査・統計・解説などを収録して、年1回発行する定期刊行物。イヤーブック。「統計年鑑」 - goo国語辞書は29万語以上を収録。政治・経済・医学・ITなど、最新用語の追加も定期的 ...


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紐約時報的中文,可能打錯字:
 And cautious hope for hemophiliacs. After trying for decades to develop a gene therapy to treat hemophilia, the inability to form blood clots, researchers are starting to succeed.

 血友病患者的谨慎希望。数十年来,研究人员一直尝试研发一种基因疗法,治疗无法形成血块的血友病,如今,研究人员正开始去的成功。

2018年8月11日 星期六

The Death of Expertise










The Death of Expertise

The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters

First Edition

Tom Nichols


Description

Technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.

Tom Nichols' The Death of Expertise shows how this rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine, among other reasons. Paradoxically, the increasingly democratic dissemination of information, rather than producing an educated public, has instead created an army of ill-informed and angry citizens who denounce intellectual achievement. When ordinary citizens believe that no one knows more than anyone else, democratic institutions themselves are in danger of falling either to populism or to technocracy or, in the worst case, a combination of both. An update to the 2017 breakout hit, the paperback edition of The Death of Expertise provides a new foreword to cover the alarming exacerbation of these trends in the aftermath of Donald Trump's election. Judging from events on the ground since it first published, The Death of Expertise issues a warning about the stability and survival of modern democracy in the Information Age that is even more important today.



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  • Powerful and scathing indictment of the many forces trying to undermine the authority of experts in the US
  • Makes the case that higher education is making the problem worse rather than better
  • Ties the rise of anti-expertise sentiment and anti-intellectualism not only to the pervasiveness of the internet, but to other technologies such as the explosion of media options
  • Concedes that experts do make mistakes, but argues that the key point is the ability of other well-informed experts to challenge these mistakes and lead to solutions
  • The author is a five-time undefeated Jeopardy! champion, and as one of the all-time top players of the game, he was invited back to play in the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions




Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction. The Death of Expertise
Chapter 1. Experts and Citizens
Chapter 2. How Conversation Became Exhausting
Chapter 3. Higher Education: The Customer Is Always Right
Chapter 4. Let Me Google That for You: How Unlimited Information Is Making Us Dumber
Chapter 5. The "New" New Journalism, and Lots of It
Chapter 6. When the Experts Are Wrong
Conclusion. Experts and Democracy
【民主裡的自大狂:簡評《專業之死》】
《專業之死》直指當代弊病,逼得我們不得不面對現實──除了專業死去,還有隨之而來的民主崩壞。
書中的美國,不啻是我們生活的台灣.............
文章來源: 獨立評論在天下

expertise 表示高知識和技能,具備此的,稱為expert,或稱專家。
將 The Death of Expertise翻譯成《專業之死》又會誤導人。
或可考慮將書 The Death of Expertise翻譯成《人人可能是假專家》。
expert Show phonetics
noun [C]
a person with a high level of knowledge or skill; a specialist:
a gardening/medical expert
My mother is an expert at dress-making (= she does it very well).

expert Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
The centre provides expert advice for people with financial problems.
What's your expert opinion?

expertise Show phonetics
noun [U]
a high level of knowledge or skill:
We admired the expertise with which he prepared the meal.
I have no expertise in sewing/sewing expertise.
She has considerable expertise in French history.

expertly Show phonetics
adverb
He carved the roast expertly.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

"EXPERT"漢文習譯為"專家"--這可能是簡化日文的
【専門家せんもん-か 0 】(
ある技芸や学問などの専門的方面で、高度の知識、またすぐれた技能を備えた人。)



有趣的是 日文辭點典將 expert解釋為
━━ n. 熟練者, 老練家, くろうと ((in, at, on)); 技師; 鑑定人.
━━ a. 熟達した, 老練な ((in, at, with)).
 ex・pert・ly ━━ ad.
 ex・pert・ness ━━ n.


日本就 
expert system (a computer system which asks questions and gives answers that have been thought of by a human expert)採取音譯



2018年8月8日 星期三

Platero y Yo 《灰毛驢與我》《毛驢銀匠與我》《普拉特羅和我》





灰毛驢與我 Platero y Yo / Poems of Góngora

這本書採取西班牙原詩不譯而只做導論和注解的工作
所以我只讀懂西班牙的purpura 不是英文的purple 而是王者之色如哈佛大學校色之血紅等等 (159頁注等等)
https://hcbooks.blogspot.com/search?q=%E7%81%B0%E6%AF%9B%E9%A9%A2

Google Translate
普拉特羅和我~
Platero 銀匠

朱炎教授知道上述翻譯,
他認為該翻譯成《毛驢銀匠與我》才對,真奇怪,見其《西班牙文學:神秘、樸質、憂鬱而淒美的心靈》

2018年8月6日 星期一


hc: to identify 分開成2動詞,似乎過分用力。


One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
無論何時,社會風氣的一個主要檢驗標準,是社會中生活舒適的人心理上傾向欽羡社會頂層的權勢與成就,還是關注社會底層的需求與苦難。
- Richard Hofstadter, historian (6 Aug 1916-1970)

2018年8月3日 星期五

王德威一段:從吞恨到感恩——見證白色恐怖;Cing Dynasties (907-960)





比起許多白色恐怖受難者的遭遇,孫康宜父母的故事有個苦盡甘來的結局。而最讓我們動容的不只是她的父親與母親相互信守的深情,也是他們各自在極度孤絕的情況裡,所煥發的自尊力量以及超越苦難的決心。
王德威:從吞恨到感恩——見證白色恐怖


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Sérenité millénaire pour ce boddhisattva Avalokiteshvara, présenté dans les nouvelles salles dédiées à la Chine bouddhique.
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Le boddhisattva Avalokiteshvara
Chine du Nord
Cing Dynasties (907-960) ou dynastie Song (960-1279)
X-XIe siècle
Bois polychrome
這個菩薩菩薩的寧靜千年, 在新房間介紹給中國佛教.

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中國北部
五王朝(907-960)或宋朝(960-1279)
X世紀
Polychrome wood