今天的公式是prefer A to B 最簡單的用法~
像是比起蘋果🍎我更愛芭樂!
🥝 I prefer +名詞+ to +名詞
我喜歡⋯⋯勝過⋯⋯
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🥬I prefer tuna to salmon.
我喜歡鮪魚勝過鮭魚。
🥬I prefer sea urchin to sea cucumber.
我喜歡海膽勝過海參。
🥬I prefer cuttlefish to shrimp.
我喜歡烏賊勝過蝦子。
🥬I prefer prawn to octopus.
我喜歡大蝦勝過章魚。
🥬I prefer lobster to crab.
我喜歡龍蝦勝過螃蟹。
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我真的覺得鮪魚比鮭魚好吃🐟
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「報復性消費」英文怎麼說?
Revenge spending?
聽說大家在疫情期間都超悶,只好買東西舒壓。
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好,回到我們今天的主題,疫情期間流行的「報復性消費」,到底該怎麼用英文表達?
A. vengeful shopping
Go on a vengeful shopping spree 的確會出現在一些文章中,但頻率不高也不正式,通常需要上下文才可充分理解。
例:
1. It might be tempting for some to go on a vengeful shopping spree with their spouses’ credit card after an argument.
在吵架後,有些人可能會帶著配偶的信用卡,進行一次報復性的瘋狂購物。
2. It explains why in the weeks leading up, Orchard Road is clogged with vehicles and human bodies, makeshift bazaars sprout on every empty grass patch, and Singaporeans shop with a vengeance.
這解釋了為什麼在接下來的幾個星期裡,(新加坡的)烏節路被車輛及人群擠得水泄不通,臨時集市在每處有空位的草地上如雨後春筍般冒出,而新加坡人在報復性購物。
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B. revenge shopping
最近在新聞中偶爾也可以看到比較聳動的用語——revenge shopping:
這通常是從中國的慣用語「復仇式購物」直接翻成英文。
1. “Revenge shopping”, a term first invented in China, refers to the overindulgence in spending and consumption by shoppers who have been patiently awaiting quarantines, lockdowns and social distancing measures to ease. Fuelled by revenge shoppers, long queues and a spike in sales have been recorded in various major brand outlets in a number of Chinese cities, such as Apple, Gucci, Nike and Estée Lauder among others.
「復仇式購物」一詞首見於中國,係指靜待隔離、封城與社交距離等措施解除後,沉浸在花錢與消費裡的人。在復仇性購物者的推動下,許多中國城市的各大品牌門店,諸如蘋果、Gucci、Nike與雅詩蘭黛,都排起了長隊,銷量大增。
--GreenQueen.com
2. Several luxury goods companies reported an uptick in China this spring as people emerged from weeks of lockdowns, spurring what some analysts have called a trend of "revenge spending" — the release of pent-up demand once people aren't forced to stay home.
幾家奢侈品公司的報告稱,今年春季中國出現上漲,因為人們剛脫離數週的封鎖,激起了一些分析人士所謂的「復仇式消費」趨勢——一旦人們無須留在家中,被壓抑的需求就會釋放。
--CNN
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C. I personally prefer to use the following phrases to describe people who shop to relieve stress or just shop excessively:
我個人更喜歡用下列片語來描述以購物舒壓的人,或只是過度購物的人:
•go on a shopping spree 大採購
•go on a shopping binge 瘋狂購物
•binge shopping/eating 爆買/暴飲暴食
•buying spree 瘋買
•compulsive shopping 強迫性購物
•splurging 亂花(錢);揮霍(尤指購買奢侈品)
•a shopping frenzy 購物狂潮
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Feel free to add more related phrases in the comments, and please take precautions when shopping!
歡迎在下方留言跟大家分享更多相關用法,購物時也請務必記得做好防疫措施!
同學提供的片語:
•compensatory consumption
•retaliatory consumption
•retail therapy
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從世衛WHO發言看people兩個用法
無條件支持台灣重新加入世界衛生組織WHO。
不過,爲維護國人「語言衛生」(linguistic health),還是要指出,蔡總統臉書分享取自WHO官網的影片(連結見留言)中,美國衛生部長發言的中譯字幕,把第一個people翻譯成「人民」(the people, the public in general)是不正確的。(字幕製作者不詳。)
這裡,people位在nation, people, and sector這一串三個連接起來的單數名詞組,自然受前面的'every'修飾,所以意義上是every nation, every people, and every sector。那every people是什麼?國一英文學過,every後面必接單數可數名詞。那麼,people也可以做單數可數名詞嗎?大家回想一下老師教過的,當然可以。我們很早就學到這個用法,意思就是「民族」。
這句正確的理解和翻譯是:
……得益於每一個國家、(每一個)民族、及(每一個)部門。
(部門,sector,指公、私,產、官、學等領域。)
播放一下影片發現,美國部長的下一句話,又用到了people,提到台灣的23 million people,翻譯為「2千3百萬人民」,這就對了,這個people才是我們經常看到的「人民、民眾、人」的意思,前面可以如這裡加具體的數字,也可以只寫the people of Taiwan(台灣人民),這樣的people必須加the。這用法和前面的every people是兩回事。
如果某一個語境說the peoples of Taiwan,那意思當然是「台灣各族裔」,而不是「台灣人民」了。
順便鑑賞一下吳明益《複眼人》(Darryl Sterk英譯)片段,其中單數可數的people的用法、譯法:
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「有不少是Pangcah(邦查),嗯,這裡的阿美人自己稱自己叫邦查,他們多半都投入復原的工作。我很怕這片海岸完了,漁場也完了,邦查的海洋文化,也毀掉了一部分。對漢人來說,海的污染就是沒有錢而已,但對邦查來說,海是他們的祖先,太多神話是跟海相關的,沒有祖先,還當什麼人?」
“Many of them are Pangcah. The word means ‘people,’ and it’s what the Amis aboriginal people around here prefer to call themselves. Most of the Pangcah in Haven are involved in the recovery work. I’m afraid that this is it for this stretch of coast and for the fishing ground too. Part of the sea culture of the Pangcah people has been ruined. To Han Chinese people, all the pollution means is that there’s no more money to make from the sea, but for the Pangcah it’s different: the sea is their ancestor, and so many of their traditional stories are about the sea. Without ancestors, what’s the point of being ‘Pangcah’?”
「你是邦查嗎?」
“Are you Pangcah yourself?”
「不,我是布農。」達赫說:「Bunun的意思,是真正的『人』。」
“No, I’m Bunun,” Dahu said. “The word bunun means that we are the true ‘people.’ ”
莎拉完全懂。世界各地的種族,原先都只以為自己才是「真正的人」。
Sara completely understood. Every people in the world, in the beginning, felt that they were the only “true people.”
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