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「地緣政治」到底是什麼？
為什麼很多人分析國際情勢的時候，都說「地緣政治」嗎？政治就政治，為什麼還要加上地緣？
這個地緣，就是地理的意思，地緣政治的英文，是 geopolitics，前面的這個 geo- 字根，就是 geography 地理的意思。
也就是說，講政治實在不夠，必須配合這個國家的地理一起看，才能看懂國際情勢。
而這本書，就是很好的地緣政治入門。
去年底，英文版剛出版的時候，有幸看到介紹，我當時就感到很驚艷，私心期待臺灣有人願意引進這樣的書，很高興才隔不到一年，親子天下就做出了完整的繁體中文版本！
花博絮語：從不請專業口譯到官網文宣菜英文——臺中宣言
花博又「花現」問題！
（「花現GNP」是花博宣傳口號 XD）
談談臺中市府官網宣傳《臺中宣言》的英文標題，見圖。
原版：累贅、不像樣的的台式菜英文：
《Taichung Declaration》has redefined the GNP Promote and raise the proposal for Green, Nature and People
設法順著原標題想表達的意思改成及格的英文：
The Taichung Declaration has redefined the pursuit of GNP growth in a new proposal of Green, Nature, and People
英文雖然對了，但仍累贅，沒有標題的樣子。
再改，使其精簡易懂，有標題樣：
The Taichung Declaration redefines GNP as Green, Nature, and People
最後這標題比較令人滿意，簡明、有重點、有哏。
* 重點明確：臺中宣言提出GNP新定義
* 明示GNP所代表的新名，但細節賣關子
* 藉此吸引讀者閱讀內文一探究竟
原標題在文法、寫作上的問題：
* 英文不存在中文新式書名號《……》
* 亂用動詞原形raise，不合文法
* 「GNP Promote」是啥？看似想表達「GNP提升」、「提升GNP」？就算視爲一個方案名，這也是糟糕的台式英文，正如Taiwan(,) Touch Your Heart 給人的感覺，無法端上國際。
問題出在把不合文法的動詞原形 promote、touch 一路用到底，不管意思如何，這顯示英語尚在牙牙學語階段，尚無動詞變化的意識和能力。
爲何 GNP Promote 是菜英文？進一步佐證：
請上 Google 搜索 "GNP Promote" （記得加英文引號），出現百餘條結果，清一色與「臺中宣言」有關，細查其實皆出自同一則臺中政府官方英文新聞文章，即本文探討的文章標題。難道「提升GNP」這概念在全人類有英語記錄的歷史中，是臺中市府首推？當然不！更合理的推論是：
一、像樣的英文不是這樣寫。
二、不像樣的這個英文表達，在全宇宙為臺中市府獨創。
這篇文宣，判斷又是不重視翻譯專業的結果。其實，有待批評的英文書寫問題還多著，有興趣的讀者不妨一讀，親自感受一下。
正如不久前逢甲大學一位外國英語教授針對「英語列爲第二官方語言」的計畫投書賴院長，批評這做法是緣木求魚，我也認爲台灣政府各層級應該檢討是否真已準備好，有能力拿出像樣的對內、對外的英語書寫。答案好像不證自明。
以下轉錄臺中官網全文，先是介紹何謂臺中宣言，後是臺中宣言英文版。（連結見留言）
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《Taichung Declaration》has redefined the GNP Promote and raise the proposal for Green, Nature and People
Issued by Information Bureau Date:2018-04-19
Taichung will conduct World Flora Expo in November. Green productivity proposed by the City Government was based on the Flora Expo addressed concepts of Green productivity, Nature sustainability and People with Green-ability.「Taichung Declaration」is aiming for inviting 100 cities to sign up. Taichung City Mayor, Chia-lung Lin has signed the declaration with Changwon City Mayor, Ahn Sang-soo tonight at Masan Baseball Stadium in South Korea, he also kicked off the starting game for the Taiwanese baseball pitcher, Weichung Wang, who is working currently in South Korea. It’s very meaningful to have Changwon City as the first city to sign up to the Taichung Declaration.
The theme of 2018 Taichung World Flora Expo is「Exploring GNP」 which change the old meaning of GNP as Gross National Product. Redefined GNP now means Green productivity, Nature sustainability and People with Green-ability for pursuing green productivity and facilitating the ecological eternity and embrace the nature in addition to pursuing the technological development. to make people’s living better. We wish to promote and raise the awareness of enhanced collaborations between international societies because this is the only way to connect people to help each other for sharing the goodness and prosperity for the world. (4/11*11)*Information Bureau.
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Taichung Declaration：
《Taichung Declaration》
A New Proposal for GNP
Have you ever thought about that, sound of blooming, could be heard?
Modern people are busy in earning their livings when they are pursuing the development of economics and technologies. They’ve been too busy to see things through so they’ve forgotten to listen to the hearts, realize the nature how close they are relying on the environment.
In 2018, let’s find out the balance for ourselves, let’s listen to the whispers of the nature, let’s listen to the happy sounds of the blooming, we can feel the the value of life and how great to be alive. After all, the meaning of life is to make the world better.
2018 Taichung World Flora Expo will raise a new proposal for GNP. GNP has it’s own life and means Green, Nature and People so it is no more a neutral number of Gross National Product. GNP stands for green productivity and facilitating the ecological eternity to make people’s living better.
It’s the time to move forwards, it’s the time to look back to the past. When we move forwards to develop the smart technologies in the future, we should remember to turn to embrace the nature again to facilitate the ecological eternity. We believe the prosperity and environmental protection can exist concurrently while the technologies can live with the nature.
Green Productivity
City in green and green in the city. The economical growth traded off by the environment will no more last as we know quite well how to play the role as one of the members in the global village. By applying green technologies, reducing energy consumption and create the shared resources to construct a sustainable city with green production and green economics as the backbone.
Nature Sustainability
The mountain geography left from the ice age and the recent wetland scenes formed by the waves and tides are all the low polluted ecological environment and diverse biological systems we would like to sustain. We will never pay the price of nature to pursue the technological prosperity again. We will rebuild the tight connections between people and nature to find back the harmony and balance between people and nature.
People with Green-ability
We are anticipating people will develop their green concepts and capabilities. Such trivial things as personal thought, diet, living and action or big scope as urban construction and future development, all of them will become the group energy of Green to contribute to the international society. So-called green concepts is to implement the actions, including respect the varieties and embrace diversity. No matter in the aspects of culture, race, politics, education or religion, we will maintain the old traditions and develop the innovations to share a better future with everyone. The aesthetics of living is to live with varieties and grow with the compatibilities.
We believe,
The perfect balance among production, ecology and living can be obtained.
Listen to the nature, connect with the society and link to the world.
Collaborate and facilitate the development of international non-government organizations.
Create the new model of urban management.
Because we connect with each other,
We will share the achievements and good results.
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(English writing below)
燈光玄理知多少，玳瑚師父是知曉，萬金難買的歌謠，富含發達的富苗。吾這陣子所寫的短文，宛如一首首含藏著，入世與出世，福喜旺達的歌謡。妳你若用心觀讀，生活無懮亦無愁。
勘輿師是必需要懂得，看出人及房屋的氣勢的。在超過一個成年人的，相宅歲月裡，吾赫然發覺，地，人，屋，原是息息相關的。吾也赫然發覺，貧窮孤苦的人家，她他們的屋宅裡外，都有著貧窮孤苦的，山水樹木花草，及秋天凋零之休相。有這類的休相，當然就休想，否極變泰來了。
那有化解之法嗎？學地理本來就是除後患也。當然，學藝要在精。短文的開頭吾已寫到，萬金難買的歌謡，就不知有人感興趣否？似乎沒有回音哦！不好意思，不好意思，還以爲正在做直播。怎麼搞的，堂堂玳瑚師父，怎可受外界影響。一笑。妳你若有以上之困境，那就請妳你，速速來個亮燈儀式吧！儀式過後，就永遠把妳你家宅，天天燈火通明。這是一個萬金難買的貧窮解葯，不費吹灰之力即可成辦，妳你若連這也不去行，那就是命定貧窮直到老。阿彌陀佛。
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How much of the profound theory of lighting do you know? Master Dai Hu knows, and it cannot be bought even with ten thousand taels of gold, for it is the seedling to greater wealth. The short posts I have been writing recently are like songs that contain ways to achieve prosperity and happiness in your secular and transmundane aspirations. If you read them with your full attention, you will live a life free from worry and troubles.
A geomancy Master must be able to tell the external characteristics of a person and a house. In my years of Feng Shui audit experience, which is more than the age of a young adult, I shockingly discover that a person and a house are closed related. I also realise that in the external environment of the house belonging to a poor and lonely family, there will also be poor and lonesome mountains, water, flora and fauna, and withering autumn sights. With such external views, one should not dream to turn things around.
Is there any way to resolve it? We learn geography with the purpose of removing potential future trouble. Of course, there must be mastery in the first place. In the start of this post, I wrote of this song that cannot be bought with ten thousand taels. I wonder if anyone is interested? Hello? Seems like there is no response! Opps, sorry, sorry, I thought I was doing a Live. Oh dear, how can Master Dai Hu get affected by external influence? *laughs*
If you have the troubles I wrote above, then hurry do a Light-up Ceremony! After the ceremony, remember to keep your house bright with the lights on every night. This is the antidote to poverty, which is hard to buy even with 10,000 taels of gold, and it is effortless to implement. If you cannot even perform this, then you are really destined to be stricken with poverty till your old age. Amitabha.
geography意思 在 [問題] 「坑」的意思- 看板Geography - 批踢踢實業坊 的八卦
請問各位，在地圖上常看到有XX坑 X坑這些地名
有些地方有溪流，有些則沒有，但多數(山裡的)都無人居住
很好奇這坑字代表的是什麼樣的地形，名稱又是怎麼來的呢？
(像是粗坑、姜仔坑、待人坑...等等)
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But in real life, you're not properly lit
and there's no soundtrack. --Jack
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