The Alchemist: 牧羊少年奇幻之旅

翻譯書中，碰到無法解釋的下一步，要想到可能漏了細節。。。

生活在希望中，生活才顯得更有趣，他想道，再次注視太陽的位置，並加快腳程。他忽然想起，台里發有一個老女人會解夢。

出聲思考：

為何找能解夢的人？除非他做了夢？（這是貓頭鷹英文共讀會的學員提出來的）
看看原文：
http://justbreatheaspiritualjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/the-alchemist.pdf

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting, he thought, as 
he looked again at the position of the sun, and hurried his pace. He had suddenly 
remembered that, in Tarifa, there was an old woman who interpreted dreams. 


having a dream come true: 被譯成了：活在希望中，dream＝希望嗎？

 夢想是有可能會成真的，這才讓人生有意思。 

而且前面有提到這個男孩做了兩次 都在同一個地方醒來的夢。他對這個夢顯然沒有忘記。
英文有 the possibility of having a dream come true...還有an old woman who interpreted dreams.
dreams 出現兩次，中文“夢”出現一次。

原譯：生活在希望中，生活才顯得更有趣。(makes life interesting. 沒有“更”）

試譯：夢想是有可能會成真的，這才讓人生有意思。 

In praise of procrastination: 讚美拖延

拖延不好嗎？不見得不好。

http://www.economist.com/node/21558218
http://www.chinaenglish.com.cn/html/c76/2012-07/47790.html


time wasters: 不一定是浪費時間的人，打發時間的法子

http://freebies.about.com/od/onlinegames/tp/time-wasters.htm

弗兰克•帕特诺伊认为人们需要学习如何管理拖延，就像他们学习管理其它事情一样。有时拖延事情是有道理的：the silliest impositions on our time occasionally have the decency to self-combust（这句实在无能为力了）。然而，合理的的时间管理的规则和其他任何人一样也适用于拖延者。有些问题如果忽视就会变得更为严重，处理这样的问题时就不应该拖延，比如你的信用卡账单。而且列一个要做什么事情的清单，在你拖延最重要的工作时，“哄骗”自己去做重要度排在第二位的工作。

出聲思考：無能為力翻不出來，就承認！這是好事！不要瞎掰！
                   哄騙自己去做點事，才不會原地打轉，被卡住，一事無成，浪費時間。
                    這是有點玩笑，但又實用的建議。  

我不喜歡用拖延，我認為只是延後，沒有拖拖拉拉的意思。閱讀的時候，自己加減字，換成自己喜歡接受的講法，也無妨。幫助自己吸收得更好。


弗兰克•帕特诺伊认为人们需要学习如何延後行事，就像他们学习管理其它事情一样。有时把事情延後是有道理的： 當強加的事讓時間緊迫到不可理喻的時候， 這種不合理的事會自我毀滅，也就是不合理的狀況會自然消失。然而，喜歡拖延的人跟其他任何人一样，也該注意合理的的时间管理规则。例如：有些问题如果忽视就会变得更为严重，这样的问题时就不应该拖延，比如你的信用卡账单。還有在你把最重要的事往後延的同時，你可以擬一份工作清單，誘使自己開始著手進行第二順位的事項，不要讓時間空過。

（我的版本）

Mr Partnoy argues that people need to learn how to manage delay just as they learn how to manage everything else. Sometimes putting things off makes sense: the silliest impositions on our time occasionally have the decency to self-combust. Still, the rules of sensible time-management apply to procrastinators as much as everyone else. Don't delay tackling problems that will grow worse if ignored, such as your credit-card bill. And create a to-do list to fool yourself into doing your second-most-important job while procrastinating over the most important one.

在你把最重要的事往後延的同時，你可以擬一份工作清單，誘使自己開始著手進行第二順位事項。

 the silliest impositions on our time occasionally have the decency to self-combust.
用google translate看看: 最愚蠢強加在我們的時間，偶爾有正派自我燃燒。
 時間緊迫到不可理喻， 天理有時會讓這種事自我毀滅，也就是不合理的狀況自然消失

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老是想着截止日期你脑子里想的事情就只剩下快餐和需要剪的脚趾甲了。
出聲思考：這句話不太可能吧？為何會只想快餐，和剪指甲？
如果我老擔心截止日期，我會急就章，趕快了事，就像吃快餐吃得很急，但跟剪指甲有何關係？

Become too obsessed with deadlines and you are left with the intellectual equivalent of fast food—and toenails that need cutting.

你會落到這個狀態：相當於知識上的速食和需要修剪的腳指甲（也可能指第一段說的一聽到截止日期，腳指甲）
 －－ 趕工，又剪料
THERE is nothing like a deadline to focus the mind. This columnist finds that, whenever his editor starts yapping, his mind focuses on the following subjects. (1) His toenails. Surely they need to be cut? 

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看這個翻譯：中文矛盾

有時候，即使分秒必爭，延誤也有它的功能。像是飛行員和醫生，即使是做過多次、非常熟練的步驟，用檢查清單的時間停緩片刻，也能讓他們暫緩下來，以更有方法的方式來進行

出聲思考：延誤。。就是誤了，怎有功能？可以說：延後，延遲 ，但不是延誤

Delay even works in fields where time might seem to be of the essence. Doctors and pilots can profit from following a checklist, even when doing things they have done many times before. A list slows them down and makes them more methodical, as Atul Gawande describes in “The Checklist Manifesto”. The best sportsmen wait until the last split second before hitting the ball.

有步驟程序清單，遵循，可以讓他們更有系統

另一位翻譯：
拖延也是发挥作用的。即使是在做之前做过很多次的事情，医生和飞行员按照清单做事也是有好处的。正如阿图·葛文德在他的“清单宣言”中描述的那样，一份清单能够使他们放慢速度，让他们更加有条不紊。最好的运动员都是在最后一刹那才击球。

Thinking, Fast and Slow: 快思慢想

讀到莫名奇妙的時候，不要懷疑自己有問題， 莫名奇妙之處，要看看原文，對比一下。

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最近洪蘭翻譯的“快思慢想”在網路引起討論。批聲沸沸揚揚！ 我沒有興趣做人身攻擊，只想看看原文的意思，和翻譯合不合。

於是到了 https://plus.google.com/110896187168631282520/posts/PDkTFJBctgW

讀讀批的人在批些什麼？

結果，竟然連批的人，也沒看清楚原文的意思，這就有意思了！

我用出聲思考的方式，來檢查一下：

－－－－－－－洪譯

當你在看這個女人的面孔時，它其實包含了我們一般稱之為看（seeing）和直覺思考的兩個歷程。你馬上注意到這個年輕女子的頭髮是黑色的，她在生氣，此外，你所看到的東西延伸到未來，你感覺到這個女人馬上要說一些不好的話，可能用很嚴厲的話大聲罵人，她未來要做些什麼是很自動、毫不費力地進入你的心中。你並不想知道她的心情是怎樣或是預期她要做什麼，而且你對照片的反應並不是你做了什麼她才這樣。你的感覺就這麼產生了，這就是快速思考的一個例子。

出聲思考：而且你對照片的反應並不是你做了什麼她才這樣，當然不可能，我跟她不認識，我怎麼可能想我做了什麼惹了她？？？莫名其妙！

找到原文：

[Figure 1] Your experience as you look at the woman’s face seamlessly combines what we normally call seeing and intuitive thinking. As surely and quickly as you saw that the young woman’s hair is dark, you knew she is angry. Furthermore, what you saw extended into the future. You sensed that this woman is about to say some very unkind words, probably in a loud and strident voice. A premonition of what she was going to do next came to mind automatically and effortlessly. You did not intend to assess her mood or to anticipate what she might do, and your reaction to the picture did not have the feel of something you did. It just happened to you.

該網站批評洪蘭翻譯，提出的建議：

你 並未刻意去探知 她心情怎樣或是預期她要做什麼，而且你對照片有怎樣的反應，感覺上也不是因為你做了什麼 使然 ，你的 反應 就這麼自然而然發生了。

出聲思考： 還是不對，跟我做了什麼有啥關係呢？

這一句：

You did not intend to assess her mood or to anticipate what she might do, and your reaction to the picture did not have the feel of something you did.

You did not intend to do X , and Y did not have the feel of something you did (指 intend 前面提到的動詞）

X＝assess her mood or to anticipate

Y＝ your reaction to the picture 

你並不想知道她的心情是怎樣或是預期她要做什麼，而且你對照片的反應也不是你刻意想知道。

did not have the feel of something that  you did-  you  intended

我把我的詮釋給蘇正隆，蘇先生（JS）看看：您可能不知道：

蘇正隆先生，擅長咬文嚼字，對英文的掌握，對中文的拿捏特別敏感，我說這是acquired taste 還是天生就會？非常佩服！

他看了這句：你並不想知道她的心情是怎樣或是預期她要做什麼，而且你對照片的反應也不是你刻意想知道。

馬上有了回應：

(你沒刻意去揣摩她的心情或預測她會做什麼，你對照片的反應也不是刻意的。JS)

不多久，他又改版了，天才的頭腦，是不斷思考的，太棒了！ 

(你沒刻意去揣摩測她的心情或預測期她會做什麼，你對照片的反應也不是刻意的。JS)

揣摩 sounds more like trying to please her.（他寫道）

揣摩 －－ 和 －－揣測 －－ 

預測 －－和  －－ 預期 －－

這細微的差異，你能分辨嗎？品酒的功力如何培養？acquired taste... 還是天生？跟蘇先生磨翻譯，像品酒一樣，是人生一大樂事！

我還要說的是，中英文交叉比對，兩種語言的敏感度都大大提升－閱讀力大雙贏，－真的太好玩了！

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 另一則有爭議的翻譯：

「你立刻知道這是一個乘法的問題，如果你有紙和筆的話你會算算看。如果沒有紙筆的話，你就不會做，因為你知道自己的心算能力。你同時也知道這個答案的範圍，你馬上知道 12609 和 123 都是不對的答案。但是假如你沒有花時間算它，就不確定答案是不是 568。」

出聲思考：如果沒有紙筆，就不會算。作者怎知我的心算能力？
 不相信作者會這麼武斷。

我們無意做人身攻擊，我們只想看清楚原文的意思！貓頭鷹英文共讀會已經常常做這類練習：訓練思考力！

回到原文：

" You knew immediately that this is a multiplication problem, and probably knew that you could solve it, with paper and pencil, if not without.”

上面的句子可以簡化來看：

You knew that（X） and probably  knew that （Y）

X=this is a multiplication problem

Y=you could solve it, with paper and pencil, if not without

    

if not without --

If you could not solve it without paper and pencil

把 if not without 放到前面來看：

If you could not solve it without paper and pencil, you could solve it with paper and pencil.

如果你沒有辦法用心算，你也可以用紙筆算出來。

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看網友評論此書：
http://blog.xsoin.com/2013/07/blog-post_12.html

https://plus.google.com/110896187168631282520/posts/Chc9bwTvPDm

http://thehousenews.com/personal/%E6%B4%AA%E8%98%AD%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6/

王偉雄

美國加州州立大學哲學教授。

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Upside-Down Mice ：倒立的老鼠

這是促進國際閱讀素養研究（Progress in International Reading Literacy Study :簡稱 PIRLS)所用的範例文章

Roald Dahl 的故事

 http://lrn.ncu.edu.tw/pirls/article.html

中文翻譯：看到細節交待不完整的時候，要起疑！

http://lrn.ncu.edu.tw/pirls/files/%E7%AF%84%E4%BE%8B%E6%96%87%E7%AB%A0/%E5%80%92%E7%AB%8B%E7%9A%84%E8%80%81%E9%BC%A0.pdf

「太過份了！」羅伯說道。「這真是太過份了！」他拖著步伐走
出屋外，走向街上一家商店，他買了一些補鼠器、一片乳酪和一些強
力膠。
當他回到家之後，他將強力膠塗在補鼠器
的底部，並將補鼠器黏在天花板上。然後再小
心翼翼的將乳酪放在上頭作餌，希望能夠趕走
牠們。

出聲思考：當然希望能夠趕走牠們，這還用說？好的小說家，不會這麼寫。（真倒胃口）
捕鼠器不只一個，要把這些黏在天花板上，可要費不少功夫，仰著頭，脖子都酸了，同時乳酪放在捕鼠器上做餌，可要小心，不要夾到手 。為何這些都沒有提？


http://lrn.ncu.edu.tw/pirls/files/%E7%AF%84%E4%BE%8B%E6%96%87%E7%AB%A0/%E5%80%92%E7%AB%8B%E7%9A%84%E8%80%81%E9%BC%A0%E8%8B%B1%E6%96%87%E7%89%88.pdf
“This is too much,” he said. “This really is going a
bit too far.” He hobbled out of the house down the road to
a shop where he bought some mousetraps,
a piece of cheese and some glue.
When he got home, he put the
glue on the underneath of the
mousetraps and stuck them to the
ceiling. Then he baited them carefully with pieces of cheese
and set them to go off.

看到set them to go off 被譯成了 “希望能夠趕走牠們”

查查看 set, go off 是什麼意思。


set: to cause somebody/something to be in a particular state; to start something happening
set somebody/something + adverb/preposition Her manner immediately set everyone at their ease.He pulled the lever and set the machine in motion.
把捕鼠器的機關設在啓動的狀態，這樣老鼠一碰就會被夾到。

if an alarm, etc.goes off, it makes a sudden loud noise

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/go+off#go_1__835

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Usw1tXhkc
see a video clip : mouse trap going off

A Bad Case of Stripes ： 條紋事件糟糕啦

繪本閱讀：有專家說：看圖不必太追究文字－我們來看看，如何不追究是好的。

http://www.sproutling.com/parentage/best-books-giving/a-bad-case-of-stripes/

 哪一種豆子，不要緊？是青豆－還是－皇帝豆？都可以。

第一句：

 卡蜜拉喜歡青豆，但是她從不吃青豆。

            出聲思考：       如果從來不吃，如何知道喜歡？

看原文 

Camilla Cream loved lima beans.  But she never ate them.  All of her friends hated lima beans, and she wanted to fit in.  Camilla was always worried about what other people thought of her.

lima beans 

http://www.onlyfoods.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Lima-Bean.jpg

           青豆
   http://www.nipic.com/show/1/43/dfda7229e20d7155.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHkklHniuTs

Taiwan 豌豆..青豆仁指這種植物豆莢中的種子..[snow peas]
                      

never: 是從來不嗎？ 

查查 never 有那些意思？

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/never

used to emphasize a negative statement instead of ‘not’

強調不。就是不這麼做。

            google 搜尋：never 用法

             https://www.facebook.com/poor.english/posts/306980059335304

         台灣人常錯的英文文法: EVER / NEVER. 這不一定是"從來沒"的意思!!!

台灣人常錯的英文文法: EVER / NEVER. 這不一定是"從來沒"的意思!!!
1. EVER/NEVER配現在是 = 我都會做 / 我都不會做
例句: I never go to bed past 11pm. 超過晚上11點都不會這麼晚睡 (不是說從來沒有做過的事，只是說沒有這個習慣) 問句才用EVER: Do you ever go to bed past 11pm?
例句: I never go out on weekends. 我周末都不出門。 不是說你從來沒有!
例句: I'm never late for work. 我都不會上班遲到。但是有可能發生過，這句沒有說!

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    Camilla Cream loved lima beans.  But she never ate them. 

    

     卡蜜拉喜歡青豆，但是她從不吃青豆。

                      卡蜜拉明明喜歡皇帝豆，但她就是不吃。
                    
                   卡蜜拉非常喜歡皇帝豆，但她都不吃。
                  

     選哪個？

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                放聲尖叫 vs. 大聲尖叫  
                放聲痛哭 vs. 大哭失聲
             
                貓頭鷹學員討論：放聲－有忍耐了好久，才。。。
                這和故事的發展不合，因為卡蜜拉看到鏡子中的自己，也嚇一跳，所以
                不應該是放聲

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卡蜜拉非常喜歡吃青豆，但是她所有的朋友都恨青豆，卡蜜拉為了和大家一樣而不吃青豆，接著，為了在開學日給人好印象，卡蜜拉試了一堆衣服，但是她發現自己身上居然出現七彩條紋！在 家庭 醫師也沒有辦法的情況下，卡蜜拉只好硬著頭皮去上學，結果因為念美國效忠誓詞而使卡蜜拉的條紋變成美國國旗的花色，還爆出星星，同學們轟然大笑，卡蜜拉隨著同學的嘲笑身上不斷地變換花樣，出現紫色圓點、棋盤等等圖樣，校長因此要她回家。卡蜜拉的父親為了讓卡蜜拉心情好一點，問她需要什麼？其實卡蜜拉想要吃一盤青豆，但她還是不敢說


訪問作者: David Shannon 談 lima beans （青豆就不是 lima beans ）

http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/shannon/

http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/shannon/transcript/  

           

Oh, I hate lima beans. And I think most kids do. That was actually the last thing that changed in that story. Originally, the cure was marshmallows, just because they're yummy. She just ate something because it was yummy, and it cured her. Then my editor and I were discussing the ending, and we decided it would work better if we could come up with something that most people hated, but that she liked. That would be a more effective ending for the story.

So, I thought, you know, "Lima beans, of course." For kids, that's the international symbol of food hatred – lima beans. So I called my editor and told her. She said, "Well, why lima beans?"

I said, "Because everybody hates them."

And she said, "They do?"

It turned out that she'd always loved lima beans her whole life and had no idea that kids couldn't stand them. She didn't believe me. So she took a poll around the office, and called back and said, "Okay. You're right. Everyone hates them."

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A Bad Case of Stripes ：怎麼變成事件

A Bad case of X:  嚴重的 X 病例

看看這段翻譯：老婆婆講的話：

她走進卡蜜拉的房間，看看四周。「我的老天爺呀！」她搖搖頭，「這真是一樁糟糕的條紋事件，是我所見過最糟糕的一件！」 她從包包裡拿出一袋綠色的小豆子。

出聲思考：老婆婆會講條紋事件？糟糕的條聞事件？－－－還是嚴重的條紋病？

a bad case of ___

查查字典吧！

查 case, 解釋其多，選哪個？ 選合用的－－要動動腦！ 和我們的上下文最接近的

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/case

the fact of somebody having a disease or an injury; a person suffering from a disease or an injuryha severe case of typhoidThe most serious cases were treated at the scene of the accident.

有位小朋友模仿生“條紋病”的樣子－－                          嚴重的條紋病

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/89298005085094320/

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醫生專家都沒轍，他們來了，每個人給她一罐藥丸，所以她有好幾罐－－還是大家一共給她一罐？

They each handed her a bottle filled with different colored pills.

出自網站  http://www.slideshare.net/lauriechen946/ss-28059617 

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「我好了」她大叫。 「是的」老太太說。 「我知道真正的你在某個地方。」 她拍拍卡蜜拉的頭，接著走到外面 ，消失在人群中。

  我早就知道真正的妳就藏在裡面－－ 

“I’m cured!” she shouted. “Yes,” said the old woman. “I knew the real you was in here somewhere.”  She patted Camilla on the head. Then she went outside and vanished into the crowd.

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她從包包裡拿出一袋綠色的小豆子。 「就是這些」她說，「這些豆子或許有神奇 的效果。」 
「這些是魔法豆子嗎？」克林姆太太問。 
「噢，不」親切的老太太說，「沒有這種事 ，這些只是普通的老青豆。我敢打賭，你應 該想吃一些青豆，對不對？」她問卡蜜拉。 卡蜜拉最想要的，就是痛痛快快的吃上一大 盤青豆，但她還是害怕承認。 

出聲思考：   說有神奇的效果，又說沒有這種事？奇怪耶!

She pulled a container of small green beans from her bag. “Here,” she said. “These might do the trick.” “Are those magic beans?” asked Mrs. Cream.
“Oh my, no,” replied the kind old woman. “There’s no such thing. These are just plain old lima beans. I’ll bet you’d like some, wouldn’t you?” she asked Camilla.
Camilla wanted a big, heaping plateful of lima beans more than just abut anything, but she was still afraid to admit it.  


   do the trick  -  http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/do+the+trick 

to do exactly what is needed. This new paint scraper really does the trick. Is this envelope large enough to do the trick?

Veronika Decides to Die： 薇若妮卡想不開

讀翻譯小說，看到跟生活經驗不合的時候， 就是要發揮質疑精神的時候了！ 把原文拿出來，對照一下，看看應該是什麼意思。

p. 53
“這個注射器裡含有一滴胰島素，”他以一種嚴肅，機械式的音調說話。“以前糖尿病病患者用這個來對付高血糖。無論如何，當此注射劑量遠超過平常時，則每一滴注入血糖的胰島素都可能引起昏迷。”

出聲思考：注射器裡含有一滴胰島素，不尋常，很難做到只有一滴在注射器裡！
               以前糖尿病患用這個來對付高血糖，那現在用什麼呢？
                 

p.43  “This syringe contains a dose of insulin,” he said, speaking in a grave, technical tone of voice. “It’s used by diabetics to combat high blood glucose. However, when the dose is much larger than normal, the consequent drop in blood glucose provokes a state of coma.”

出聲思考： 看來 drop 和 dose，對譯者來說是同一個字？drop: 一滴， dose：劑量

                何為機械式的音調，為何要用機械式的音調講話？是像機器人講話嗎？

沒有以前： It's used to 是指胰島素(it)被糖尿病患者用來對抗高血糖

technical tone of voice: 不好懂的專業術語說法


http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/technical
connected with a particular subject and therefore difficult to understand if you do not know about that subjectThe article is full of technical terms.The guide is too technical for a non-specialist.

the consequent drop in blood glucose: 注射過量的胰島素，引起後來血糖下降導致昏迷 provokes a state of coma
--------------------------------------------p.53 他輕輕地按一下針頭，將多餘的空氣排掉，然後將針頭插進芮德卡右腿的靜脈中。出聲思考：怎麼可以按針頭，不怕感染嗎？按針頭可以將多餘的空氣排掉？可能嗎？
p.43  He tapped the needle lightly, to get rid of any air, and then stuck it in a vein in Zedka's right foot. 
http://heal.cpst.net.cn/hlyy/yycs/2009_04/240649194.html正确使用胰岛素的注意事项有哪些？将针筒直立，用手指轻敲针筒，将气泡浮到最上端，再将活塞往前推，将气泡打入胰岛素瓶内，再将活塞往后拉，抽取出正确的胰岛素量。
tap 是什麼動作？tap the needle: 轻敲针筒－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－p.55, p.56, 芮德卡正在進行一場星際之旅，
p.45astral journey, astral travel, astral projection是靈魂出體，譯成星際之旅，不好懂
 http://www.out-of-body-guide.com/casesall.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral_projection

Astral projection

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用字不精準：製造認知混亂。

服藥一定是吃藥，還是有可能是注射？

p.50

所有其他的女人都服藥丸，只有薇若妮卡接受注射劑。她從不抱怨，
她只是想知道，既然她並沒有失眠的問題，為什麼她要服那麼多鎮靜劑。
出聲思考：不是才說用注射的，怎麼馬上變成服那麼多鎮靜劑？
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p.46有一名魁梧，看起來很奸詐的男護士走過來，想知道發生了什麼事。出聲思考：以前不認識的男護士走過來，一眼就能感受到此人奸詐嗎？
p.37 A burly,shifty-looking male nurse came over, wanting to know what was going on. 
看看shifty-looking 有關的網路資料：像不像“心懷不軌”的樣子？
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T55ArHjeR1cshifty-eyed dog
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/shifty-looking
having the appearance of being dishonest

A shifty-looking stranger has walked past as I dicate this and I had to go into undercover mode.

SUN, NEWS OF THE WORLD (1999)

OVER the past few weeks, many people will have noticed shifty-looking strangers in their neighbourhood.

SUN, NEWS OF THE WORLD (2001)

When I rapped sharply on the door it was opened by a shifty-looking man with blood shot eyes, a whiskey-laden breath and a week's beard.

Dervla Murphy WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS (2002)

----------這段被 http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/480088-because-of-that-she-had-never-had-enough-energy-to 引述，結果中文翻譯就有問題：
p. 60-61

“Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, considering them   inferior, ingenuous.”

p.71

當有一些對生活持較開放態度的人出現時，他們要不完全地排斥，要不就使他們痛苦，把他們當作次等的老實人

出聲思考：老實人為何就次等？ 不太合理。

-->不是老實人，是太天真，太幼稚

ingenuous: Someone who is ingenuous shows a childlike innocence, trust, and openness. One of the things kindergarten teachers value is the chance to work with kids while they're still relatively ingenuous––their open, trusting natures are a joy.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/ingenuous

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p.73

這種愛使她多年來免於經驗世俗所存在的困難及污穢，但也忽略了一點，她自己終究要面對，而屆時她可能失去抵抗的力量。

出聲思考：終究要面對什麼？根本就沒有抵抗的力量，哪來“失去”？

p. 62

It was a love that for years had tried to hide from her the difficulties and the corruption that existed in the world, ignoring the fact that, one day, she would have to find this out, and would then be defenseless against them. 

It was a love that X, ignoring the fact that Y

ignoring 分詞構句，說明 a love, 

a love that ignored the fact that ...

這種愛隱藏了事實 X， 同時忽略了事實 Y

X＝the difficulties and the corruption that existed in the world

Y＝one day, she would have to find this out, and would then be defenseless against them

忽略了有一天她會不得不發現真相，而到時會沒有力量抵抗（世俗所存在的困難及污穢）

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82, 日本人會因為丟了一頂帽子而自殺。

出聲思考：真的嗎？

p.71

"The Indians believe the murderer to be guilty, not society, not his parents, not his ancestors. Do the Japanese commit suicide because a son of theirs decides to take drugs and go out and shoot people? The reply is the same: no! And, as we all know, the Japanese will commit suicide at the drop of a hat. The other day I read that a young Japanese man killed himself because he had failed his university entrance exams."

at the drop of a hat: 成語，不能看字面的意思去理解：

 immediately; instantly; on the slightest signal or urging. (Alludes to the dropping of a hat as a signal.) John was always ready to go fishing at the drop of a hat. If you need help, just call on me. I can come at the drop of a hat.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/at+the+drop+of+a+hat

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83. 除了一些特定的由精神病引起的嚴重案例之外，一般人只有在他們想要擺脫日常事務時才會發瘋

出聲思考：日常事務是什麼？

p.71

 apart from certain grave pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escape from routine. Do you understand?"

routine: 日復一日，例行公事，讓人厭煩,否則為何會想自殺？

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p.83   我瞭解，她回答。如果你覺得我沒有能力照顧她，你可以省省力氣，我從來沒有想著改變我的生活。

出聲思考：你可以省省力氣？是用在，你想勸我做什麼事，或要我改變心意，你可以省省力氣，你是沒辦法改變我的。但是，這裡應該是什麼？

p.71

"I do," she replied. "And if you think that I won't be capable of looking after her, you can rest assured, I've never tried to change my life."

rest assured: 放心！

p.92

所以只是因為我給一條色布正確的名字，你就得到我不是瘋子的結論

出聲思考： 名字？正確的名稱 

p.79

"So just because I gave the right name to a bit of colored cloth you conclude that I'm not mad."

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p.93 他卻借用了當年皇帝，國王，以及愛人們想要除掉眼中釘時喜歡用的名字為該物質命名。

出聲思考： 用名字可以除掉眼中釘？

p.80
Dr. Igor, the as-yet-unrecognized discoverer of this fatal substance, had given it the name of a poison much favored in the past by emperors, kings, and lovers of all kinds whenever they needed to rid themselves of some obstructive person.

name of a poison:  毒藥的名字 

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p.94 奇怪的是從來沒有人描述過礬是一種毒藥，雖然大部份受它影響的人可以指出它的滋味，

出聲思考：前面才說（p.93 ）但是這個毒藥，現在卻很不容易取得，而且非常昂貴，

 為何說：

                   沒有人描述過礬是一種毒藥，

p.80

It was odd that no one had ever described Vitriol as a mortal poison, although most of the people affected could identify its taste, and they referred to the process of poisoning as bitterness. To a greater or lesser degree, everyone had some bitterness in their organism, just as we are all carriers of the tuberculosis bacillus. But these two illnesses only attack when the patient is debilitated; in the case of bitterness, the right conditions for the disease occur when the person becomes afraid of so-called reality.


mortal poison: 該如何解讀？一直到死亡。。。
到死方休的毒藥，也就是一輩子纏著不放的毒藥

lasting until death

SYNONYM

 deadlymortal enemiesThey were locked in mortal combat(= a fight that will only end with the death of one of them).http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/mortal
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出聲思考：可恥？還是可惜？可惜。。他們沒有活在現在。。。
p.95It was a shame that Allah, Jehovah, God-it didn't matter what name you gave him-did not live in the world today, because if he did, we would still be in paradise, while he would be mired in appeals, requests, demands, injunctions, preliminary verdicts, and would have to justify to innumerable tribunals his decision to expel Adam and Eve from paradise for breaking an arbitrary rule with no foundation in law: Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat.
  shame 有不止一種解釋：查字典的時候，要看哪個合適？a shame: http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/shameused to say that something is a cause for feeling sad or disappointed

SYNONYM

 pityWhat a shame they couldn't come.