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。
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？
p.41 All the other women took pills, Veronika was the only one who was given an injection. She never complained, she just wanted to know why she was given so many sedatives since she never had problems sleeping. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－
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
----------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
82, 日本人會因為丟了一頂帽子而自殺。
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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
p.71
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。
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."
p.92
p.79
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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。
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.
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，
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
－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－p.109 真可恥，阿拉，耶和華，上帝 －－－不管你們替他安的是什麼名字－－－並未居住在現在的世界，因為如果他是，我們還是會待在伊甸園，而他則是會被一大堆的上訴，情願，要求，禁制令，初審判決等陷入泥沼。。。
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
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？
p.41 All the other women took pills, Veronika was the only one who was given an injection. She never complained, she just wanted to know why she was given so many sedatives since she never had problems sleeping. －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－
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.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.
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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）
-----------------------------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
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？
－－－－－－－－－－－－－－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
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."
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
－－－－－－－－－－－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，
為何說：
沒有人描述過礬是一種毒藥，
p.80
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－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－p.109 真可恥，阿拉，耶和華，上帝 －－－不管你們替他安的是什麼名字－－－並未居住在現在的世界，因為如果他是，我們還是會待在伊甸園，而他則是會被一大堆的上訴，情願，要求，禁制令，初審判決等陷入泥沼。。。
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. 
http://mybelles-lettres.blogspot.tw/2008/03/veronika-decides-to-die.html
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