分類: 背景知識

Why are advanced countries still whaling?

Key Word

1. hacktivist 激進駭客
2. baffle 困惑
3. are opposed to 反對
4. justification 合理化說詞
5. sustainable 永續的
6. minke whale 小須鯨
7. fin whale長鬚鯨

A “hacktivist" group recently took down many Icelandic government websites, in protest at the country’s practice of whaling.

In fact, Iceland is not the only country that still practices whaling: Japan and Norway also do so. This often baffles people from elsewhere. We wonder why are the countries still whaling if most counties are opposed to it.

Iceland’s whalers are legally allowed to hunt 154 fin whales and 229 minke whales. Icelanders usually offer two justifications. First, there are too many whales in the ocean and they eat all the fish. Second, Icelanders do not eat whale meat: it is the tourists that do that.

That first claim is arguable. The second is largely true. According to an official report, 35-40% of visitors to Iceland eat whale meat. And minke whales are found in all of the world’s oceans. There are over 100,000 minke whales in the wild. And although Fin whales are an endangered species based on the remaining number of them around the world, the fin whale population in North Atlantic is considered healthy. For that reason, hunting fin whales around Iceland is not a conservation threat. So, to Icelandic whalers, when they talk about whaling, they talk about whaling a particular population, not a species.

Whaling is a long tradition in Iceland and Icelanders think that they can use marine resources, as long as they do it in a sustainable and responsible way. The Japanese and Norwegian governments take a similar attitude towards whaling.

無論您是(1)注重口說寫作的國高中生; (2)提升競爭力的英文老師; (3)努力成為各科雙語老師; 或(4)提升專業英語說寫能力的碩博生或社會人士。請洽客製化訓練課程詢問專線。

唯一雲端虛擬教室，將想法全文輸入輸出訓練🎯，雲端專人訂正提供改善建議。
影片線上教學平台：Youtube教學頻道
提升國際競爭力 加入超凡遠距 

I don’t have the Internet.雖然文法沒錯，但跟表達者所想的內容可能不同。

I don’t have the Internet.意思是「我沒有擁有整個網路。」這當然是事實，網路(WWW)或互聯網並不屬於任何人，但這並不是「我沒有網路可以上網」的意思。

若要表達「我沒有網路可以上網」，有下列幾種表達：

1. I don’t have access to the Internet.
2. I cannot access the Internet.
3. I cannot connect to  the Internet.
4. I have no connection to the Internet.
5. We don’t have Internet connection here.
6. There is no Internet access here.

現在越來越多人接受網路 the internet 這個字用小寫開頭 (除非是在句首)，大家閱讀的時候可以多留意。。

Key words
war-torn受戰爭蹂躪的
demonstrate展示；示威
domestic violence家庭暴力
rampant猖獗的

❤️“Women hold up half the sky.”

The sentence is being passed down not because Mao Tse-Tung said it, but because it is what is happening today. From war-torn south America, where women demonstrate for peace to protect their children, to poor rural India, where girls spend all day walking miles collecting water for family, instead of going to school. Men and women each take responsibility in different ways for their own part in order to hold up the sky together. Men and women are surely different. Just because men and women are different, they are able to compensate for the disadvantages of each other to form a perfect whole. They both should value this truth.

Today, even if domestic violence is still rampant in some places in the world, ❤️men know very well that they can never hold up the sky without women.

中英對照

Women hold up half the sky!
女性撐起半邊天

The sentence is being passed down not because Mao Tse-Tung said it, but because it is what is happening today.
這個句子不斷流傳，並不是因為說這句話的人是毛澤東，而是因為這是今天的真實樣貌。

From war-torn south America, where women demonstrate for peace to protect their children, to poor rural India, where girls spend all day walking miles collecting water for family, instead of going to school.
從受到戰爭揉躪的南美洲，女性為了保護孩子而示威爭取和平，到印度的偏遠貧窮地區，那兒的女孩花一整天的時間走好幾英哩取水供家裡使用，而沒能上學。

Men and women each take responsibility in different ways for their own part in order to hold up the sky together.
男性及女性各自以不同的方式負起責任盡本分來一起撐起那一片天。

Men and women are surely different.
男性跟女性的確是不同的。

Just because men and women are different, they are able to compensate for the disadvantages of each other to form a perfect whole.
正是因為男女不同，他們能夠互補彼此不足來形成美好的整體。

They both should value this truth. Today even if domestic violence is still rampant in some places in the world, men know very well that they can never hold up the sky without women.
男性女性都應該重視這個事實。今天即使家庭暴力在世界上有些地方仍然猖獗，男性心裡非常明白，沒有女性，他們絕對沒有辦法獨立撐起那一片天。

A: What is your “plan” for this summer vacation? 今年暑假有些什麼「計畫」?

B: I am going to finish several “projects”. 我要完成幾個「計畫」。

這兩個句子中都有「計畫」，當我們讀別人寫的句子，通常不會覺得有甚麼奇怪之處。但是當我們必須自己創造句子，有時候就會為了用字遣詞煩惱，甚至使用錯誤的字。訂正學生筆譯作業時，常發現許多人對於「計畫」是要用project 還是plan弄不清楚。

大家可以想一想為什麼專案管理叫做project management，也常常會用到project plan這樣的片語。可是絕對不會有plan project (跟planned project可是不同的！)。我們就可以歸納出兩者的差別：(1) Plan是想法以及達成這種想法採取的動作，是方向以及如何掌控這個方向的思考。是完成一個project的想法; (2) Project就是指到達一個方向所指的目的地，也就是目標。

Project通常是單一的短期目標，plan是達成一個或多個project的想法及步驟。下列這三個句子也許可以幫助大家進一步思考兩者差異。

The government had the long-term plan to improve the city’s road system for years. The government has started a multi-billion-dollar highway project. The cost of the project has increased since it began.

也許有些情況下兩者可互換，但是有時用錯會很怪，例如將What is your plan for dinner?說成What is your project for dinner?😜

無論您是(1)注重口說寫作的國高中生; (2)提升競爭力的英文老師; (3)努力成為各科雙語老師; 或(4)提升專業英語說寫能力的碩博生或社會人士。請洽客製化訓練課程詢問專線。

唯一雲端虛擬教室，將想法全文輸入輸出訓練🎯，雲端專人訂正提供改善建議。
影片線上教學平台：Youtube教學頻道
提升國際競爭力 加入超凡遠距