「每日英文閱讀分享#034-你因科技而快樂嗎?」
▷文章:Robots Save Us Time — But Do They Make Us Happier?
▷總結:機器人幫我們做討人厭的雜事,大多數人都變得更快樂。但是有些人會因為機器人太人性化而覺得愧疚,或者是因為使用自動化產品被貼上「懶惰」的標籤。
▷討論:科技給我們帶來更多的快樂嗎?
文章中探討的雜事機器人,快樂與焦慮比較顯而易見,但是對於整體的科技呢?
對我來說,
=>資訊快速的取得,讓我們對任何事情都失去了耐心。
一有疑惑,立刻就要取得答案,是不是某一個層面也體現了,一有爭吵,就要告訴自己『是他不適合我,如果真正適合的人是不用付出心力磨合的』。速食愛情,是不是就是這樣出現的呢?
我們不再有耐心等待,沒辦法慢慢的觀察彼此,又或是花時間等待對方的改變或成長。
=>無時無刻都可以取得的網路,讓我們沒辦法停下來,我們缺少很多跟自己對話的時間,如果探索不到自己內心真正想要的,那又怎麼能夠找到人生的方向呢?
但我確實很喜歡科技帶來的便利,但是要怎麼不被這些便利牽著鼻子走,就是很重要的功課了。
▷單字分享:【tend to】
tend:有兩個意思:
當作不及物動詞時,
1. to be likely to behave in a particular way or have a particular characteristic
習慣用法為:tend to VR,
例句:The British traditionally tend not to display much emotion in public. --Cambridge Dictionary
2. to pay attention : apply oneself
習慣用法也是:tend to sth
例句:tend to your own affairs--Merriam Webster
當作及物動詞時,
1. to care for something or someone
例句:He carefully tended his sunflower plants. --Cambridge Dictionary
文中例句:Robotic lawn mowers tend to our yards, robotic suitcases follow us through the airport, and smart cooking machines prepare ingredients and implement entire recipes.--Harvard Business
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英文也有「被消失」
針對上一則關於「勘譯功德院」的發文,有位網友私訊表達支持,謝謝。但他說,「disappear 這個只能主動,不能用被動,因此要將was disappeared 改為disappeared才正確。即便是為了符合中文的『被消失』,似乎也不該以英文文法的正確性為代價。」
我的回覆:
抱歉我選擇公開回覆並且未具名引述你的話,因為這是一個切磋學習的機會。針對disappear當成及物動詞,請有興趣的朋友上網查詢這個「近期」的用法,英文中文皆然,我甚至認為,中文的新用法「被消失」很可能是仿自、翻譯自英文的to disappear someone; someone was disappeared。語言不斷演進,disappear做及物動詞,已有一百多年了歷史,好一點的、新一點的大字典已收。台灣的「規範派」(prescriptivist)制式英語學習環境或許還來不及教到這個字義。
例如,知名的American Heritage Dictionary第四版,未列出及物用法。幾年前推出的第五版,收了:
https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=disappear
這顯示,好字典必須與時俱進才不被淘汰。另一部著名的美式英語字典,Merriam-Webster,收得更早。
又如,下文指出,disappear的新義,語帶委婉或戲謔的用法,早在1961就有知名英文小說家使用了。
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/111998/disappear-as-a-transitive-verb
// OED shows that disappear has been used as a transitive verb for a surprisingly long time:
3. trans. To cause to disappear.
1897 Chem. News 19 Mar. 143 : We progressively disappear the faces of the dodecahedron.
However its euphemistic use is a bit more recent, and specifically relates to the rule of the Argentine military junta in the late 1970s.
b. trans. euphem. To abduct or arrest (a person), esp. for political reasons, and subsequently to kill or detain as a prisoner, without making his or her fate known.Freq. with reference to Latin America. //
The modern, euphemistic, transitive use can be found many times before the OED's 1979 citation, in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22:
She had urgent news about Dunbar.
'They're going to disappear him,' she said.
Yossarian squinted at her uncomprehendingly. 'They're what?' he asked in surprise, and laughed uneasily. 'What does that mean?'
'I don't know. I heard them talking behind a door.'
'Who?'
'I don't know. I couldn't see them. I just heard them say they were going to disappear Dunbar.'
'Why are they going to disappear him?'
'I don't know.'
'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?'
'I don't know.'
Jesus, you're a great help!'
'Why are you picking on me?' Nurse Duckett protested with hurt feelings, and began sniffing back tears. 'I'm only trying to help. It isn't my fault they're going to disappear him, is it? I shouldn't even be telling you.' //
StackExchange上的這個English Language & Usage論壇,深入紮實而優質,常有說母語且熱衷語言學的人士參與,是個發問、學習道地英語的大寶庫,大力推薦。也有一個較初階,專為英語學習者所設的版本,同樣高品質:
https://ell.stackexchange.com/
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