用 #英文 講 #下台階: #an #out
#a #climbdown
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可有聽過這句話?「人生在世不外處理三面:人面、場面及情面」。一句過,也就是面子問題。
於是,見到有人困於尷尬處境,要幫他挽回面子,可以給他一個下台階,讓他脫困。
下台階,英文怎麼說呢?有人會直譯 bottom bench、或 down the steps,當然都不對。也有意譯:
•Try to make the situation less embarrassing. 嘗試令情况沒那麼尷尬。
但這樣形容不夠完善,因為可以純粹是打個哈哈打圓場,缺乏下台階包含的實質意思。
另有一句:
•With diplomatic skill, the man sitting opposite had offered him a way out. 坐在他對面的男子,以外交手腕給他一個下台階。
A way out 出路,亦即我們常說的 exit strategy 離場策略。
To offer A WAY OUT,有更簡單的講法,是 to give AN OUT,就直接等於「給人一個下台階」。
不要以為 an out 只不過是 a way out 的縮短版,事實是 an out 本身就有清晰的字典解釋:
An excuse or reason for avoiding an unpleasant situation. 避免不快場面的藉口,或理由。
•We must arrange the negotiations so we have an out if we need it. 我們必須搞好談判安排,以備有需要時體面地離場。也就是下台階。
•I honestly don't want to go to that gathering, I wish I have an out. 我真的不想去那個聚會。我希望我有個好的藉口。
•Our suggestion gave her an out, if she was willing to take it. 我們的建議給了她下台階,還看她是否願意接受。
也有對話作例:
•甲:Thanks much for your help just now. 謝謝你剛才幫忙。
乙:Glad to give an out. 樂意提供一個下台階。
也即是說,既可向人提供 give an out;亦可以自給 have an out,自找出路。
要留意的是,英文的 an out 多純粹指避開尷尬不快的場面,回看中文下台階牽涉的「面子」成分,就重許多了。
或問,可否亦用 offer a climb-down?也可以。Climb-down 指往下爬,意境更見清晰。最大的分別,是一般指已見敗局,自行鳴金收兵:a retreat,as from an indefensible opinion or position 一己之見站不住腳而退場。
看這句英國新聞標題:
Coronavirus laws may not go ahead — as PM mulls a climbdown. 防疫法例或未能通過——首相(Prime Minister)考慮自找下台階。//
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今早為Asian Medical Students Association Hong Kong (AMSAHK)的新一屆執行委員會就職典禮作致詞分享嘉賓,題目為「疫情中的健康不公平」。
感謝他們的熱情款待以及為整段致詞拍了影片。以下我附上致詞的英文原稿:
It's been my honor to be invited to give the closing remarks for the Inauguration Ceremony for the incoming executive committee of the Asian Medical Students' Association Hong Kong (AMSAHK) this morning. A video has been taken for the remarks I made regarding health inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic (big thanks to the student who withstood the soreness of her arm for holding the camera up for 15 minutes straight), and here's the transcript of the main body of the speech that goes with this video:
//The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, continues to be rampant around the world since early 2020, resulting in more than 55 million cases and 1.3 million deaths worldwide as of today. (So no! It’s not a hoax for those conspiracy theorists out there!) A higher rate of incidence and deaths, as well as worse health-related quality of life have been widely observed in the socially disadvantaged groups, including people of lower socioeconomic position, older persons, migrants, ethnic minority and communities of color, etc. While epidemiologists and scientists around the world are dedicated in gathering scientific evidence on the specific causes and determinants of the health inequalities observed in different countries and regions, we can apply the Social Determinants of Health Conceptual Framework developed by the World Health Organization team led by the eminent Prof Sir Michael Marmot, world’s leading social epidemiologist, to understand and delineate these social determinants of health inequalities related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to this framework, social determinants of health can be largely categorized into two types – 1) the lower stream, intermediary determinants, and 2) the upper stream, structural and macro-environmental determinants. For the COVID-19 pandemic, we realized that the lower stream factors may include material circumstances, such as people’s living and working conditions. For instance, the nature of the occupations of these people of lower socioeconomic position tends to require them to travel outside to work, i.e., they cannot work from home, which is a luxury for people who can afford to do it. This lack of choice in the location of occupation may expose them to greater risk of infection through more transportation and interactions with strangers. We have also seen infection clusters among crowded places like elderly homes, public housing estates, and boarding houses for foreign domestic helpers. Moreover, these socially disadvantaged people tend to have lower financial and social capital – it can be observed that they were more likely to be deprived of personal protective equipment like face masks and hand sanitizers, especially during the earlier days of the pandemic. On the other hand, the upper stream, structural determinants of health may include policies related to public health, education, macroeconomics, social protection and welfare, as well as our governance… and last, but not least, our culture and values. If the socioeconomic and political contexts are not favorable to the socially disadvantaged, their health and well-being will be disproportionately affected by the pandemic. Therefore, if we, as a society, espouse to address and reduce the problem of health inequalities, social determinants of health cannot be overlooked in devising and designing any public health-related strategies, measures and policies.
Although a higher rate of incidence and deaths have been widely observed in the socially disadvantaged groups, especially in countries with severe COVID-19 outbreaks, this phenomenon seems to be less discussed and less covered by media in Hong Kong, where the disease incidence is relatively low when compared with other countries around the world. Before the resurgence of local cases in early July, local spread of COVID-19 was sporadic and most cases were imported. In the earlier days of the pandemic, most cases were primarily imported by travelers and return-students studying overseas, leading to a minor surge between mid-March and mid-April of 874 new cases. Most of these cases during Spring were people who could afford to travel and study abroad, and thus tended to be more well-off. Therefore, some would say the expected social gradient in health impact did not seem to exist in Hong Kong, but may I remind you that, it is only the case when we focus on COVID-19-specific incidence and mortality alone. But can we really deduce from this that COVID-19-related health inequality does not exist in Hong Kong? According to the Social Determinants of Health Framework mentioned earlier, the obvious answer is “No, of course not.” And here’s why…
In addition to the direct disease burden, the COVID-19 outbreak and its associated containment measures (such as economic lockdown, mandatory social distancing, and change of work arrangements) could have unequal wider socioeconomic impacts on the general population, especially in regions with pervasive existing social inequalities. Given the limited resources and capacity of the socioeconomically disadvantaged to respond to emergency and adverse events, their general health and well-being are likely to be unduly and inordinately affected by the abrupt changes in their daily economic and social conditions, like job loss and insecurity, brought about by the COVID-19 outbreak and the corresponding containment and mitigation measures of which the main purpose was supposedly disease prevention and health protection at the first place. As such, focusing only on COVID-19 incidence or mortality as the outcomes of concern to address health inequalities may leave out important aspects of life that contributes significantly to people’s health. Recently, my research team and I collaborated with Sir Michael Marmot in a Hong Kong study, and found that the poor people in Hong Kong fared worse in every aspects of life than their richer counterparts in terms of economic activity, personal protective equipment, personal hygiene practice, as well as well-being and health after the COVID-19 outbreak. We also found that part of the observed health inequality can be attributed to the pandemic and its related containment measures via people’s concerns over their own and their families’ livelihood and economic activity. In other words, health inequalities were contributed by the pandemic even in a city where incidence is relatively low through other social determinants of health that directly concerned the livelihood and economic activity of the people. So in this study, we confirmed that focusing only on the incident and death cases as the outcomes of concern to address health inequalities is like a story half-told, and would severely truncate and distort the reality.
Truth be told, health inequality does not only appear after the pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, it is a pre-existing condition in countries and regions around the world, including Hong Kong. My research over the years have consistently shown that people in lower socioeconomic position tend to have worse physical and mental health status. Nevertheless, precisely because health inequality is nothing new, there are always voices in our society trying to dismiss the problem, arguing that it is only natural to have wealth inequality in any capitalistic society. However, in reckoning with health inequalities, we need to go beyond just figuring out the disparities or differences in health status between the poor and the rich, and we need to raise an ethically relevant question: are these inequalities, disparities and differences remediable? Can they be fixed? Can we do something about them? If they are remediable, and we can do something about them but we haven’t, then we’d say these inequalities are ultimately unjust and unfair. In other words, a society that prides itself in pursuing justice must, and I say must, strive to address and reduce these unfair health inequalities. Borrowing the words from famed sociologist Judith Butler, “the virus alone does not discriminate,” but “social and economic inequality will make sure that it does.” With COVID-19, we learn that it is not only the individuals who are sick, but our society. And it’s time we do something about it.
Thank you very much!//
Please join me in congratulating the incoming executive committee of AMSAHK and giving them the best wishes for their future endeavor!
Roger Chung, PhD
Assistant Professor, CUHK JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, @CUHK Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 香港中文大學 - CUHK
Associate Director, CUHK Institute of Health Equity
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How much did Naomi give Aunty Anne in total throughout the episode?
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* 中文:
哈囉大家好
因為工作的關係時常曝曬在壓力大的環境中,為了平衡繁忙的城市生活,所以我一週需要幾次去海邊放鬆,享受大自然的美跟正能量,尋找更多的靈感,讓身心靈得到真正釋放。
我會持續努力尋找生活的平衡點,那可以帶領我尋找到真正的快樂。
持續做我熱愛的事情,這些能量可以讓我更強壯的面對一切及所有的狀況跟責任。
接下來的影片帶你窺探我在台灣的生活也是在我心裡佔據了很重要的一部分,「台灣是我的家」!
感受大自然的美和正能量幫助我找到生活的平衡點。但過程中流汗、陽光和海水容易讓我的頭皮敏感。
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用 #海倫仙度絲 照顧頭皮,清爽、療癒又放鬆,又讓我重新得到面對繁忙工作的能量!
有健康的頭皮 #別讓頭皮屑說壞話 海倫仙度絲 #讓你自信零距離
海倫仙度絲全聯現正優惠中!
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* English:
To balance with the busy life of the city, my work and sometimes, (often), stress, I feel the need to escape few times a week to the coast, enjoying the beauty and the energy of the nature, reseting my mind and finding inspiration.
I strive for finding the right balance everyday that lead to happiness.
Doing things I love, things that make me feel better while facing my responsibilities.
Here is a sneak peek of one of my journey on this island, my home, this place that has such an important place in my heart.
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* 中文:
哈囉大家好
這次『璞園袖里春』的裝飾佈置 從各式會議,規劃,研究,腦力激盪,拜訪鄰居,傢俱家飾品採買,現場布置,現場完成後的最後確認等等,.... 是一個很有趣也很具有挑戰的工作。 在這集 我很開心跟大家分享最後的成果,我希望藉由這次的裝飾佈置讓來現場參觀的貴賓們都可以讓你們感受到家的味道,更希望可以讓你們想像住在這裡的溫馨畫面。
想參觀 璞園『袖里春』天母建案的朋友,完整資料可以在下面資訊裡找到
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* English:
Hi everyone!
Decorating “Spring sleeves” show house has been a fun project. Meetings, plans’ studying, brainstorming, visiting the neighborhood, furnitures and deco shopping, installation, first check, second check, shooting all the process… and I’m happy and proud to share with you all the final result in this second episode.Decorating this show house with the restrictions encountered has been a great challenge but I hope this decoration allows every clients visiting to feel comfortable and trigger some pictures and excitement imagining living in this space.
If you are interest to visit this model house, you can find all the information in the video description.
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* 中文:
哈囉大家好
我很開心跟大家分享這個新的規劃
去年12月 我受到 璞園建築團隊的邀請來裝飾他們新的樣品屋
熱愛室內裝飾佈置的我 立刻接受了這個新的挑戰
整個過程與專業人士的交流對我來說非常的有成就感
第一集在介紹我對這個案子整個空間的想法及規劃
跟大家分享我對“家”的感覺下週很期待與大家分享第二集
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* English:
Hi everyone!
I’m excited to finally share this new project with everyone!End of December I received a call from the renowned Pauian development company to decorate their new show house.Being myself passioned about interior design and home decoration I immediately accepted this new challenge. It was such a rewarding experience to work with professionals and I shot two episodes to share with everyone the whole process.Here is the first one introducing this project, my vision for this space and my definition of a home. Stay tuned next week for the second episode!
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