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今天早上有事趕著出門，但還是不忘來跟大家一起讀英文，不過時間不夠，我們就來一起唸一篇短短的英文新聞吧！
正好跟大家介紹自由時報有個中英新聞對照的網站，透過閱讀新聞學習英文很方便，假日就來跟大家分享一篇可愛的新聞！
《 Chicago cat fleeing fire survives 5-story jump 》
《芝加哥1隻逃離火災的貓 從5樓跳下後生還》
（全文詳連結）
單字：
exterior外表的、外部的
extinguish撲滅
blaze火焰
billowing smoke 冒煙
fire-fleeing 從火中逃出
feline 貓科動物
paws爪子
Onlookers圍觀者
gasp喘氣
scale the wall翻牆
今天颱風天，大家如果出門要小心平安喔！
寫英文作文的開頭、銜接、結尾常常會詞窮嗎？喬在本篇文章中整理了些英文句型用法，希望能幫助到同學。
There’s rhythm in writing! 🎶
這個禮拜Presentality的Andrew來分享英文寫作的節奏!
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我的工作需要看非常多的英文。
其中有英文母語的人寫的，也有非母語的人寫的。最近，我注意到一個兩者之間很明顯的差別。這個差別很少有人提到，因為它無關文法正確，也不是有學問的用語，或是文雅的詞彙。
是句子的長短。
Well，更正確的來說，是長句跟短句的交錯。我發現，非母語人士寫的英文句子，不但比英文母語的人寫的長，而且是大部分句子都很長。
母語的人，尤其是很會寫的人，則是會把長句跟短句混合搭配。
那又怎樣？
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你可能會說 ok，以英文為母語的人比較會用短的句子，那又怎樣？句子的長短，跟我寫作的好壞，有關嗎？
關係可大了。
就像音樂，或是影片，文字也是「內容」。只要是「內容」，就有它的節奏。你可以想像一首曲子，從頭到尾都是很長的音，而且一點變化都沒有嗎？或是一部很長的影片，從頭到尾都是很長的畫面，而且一點節奏的變化都沒有嗎？
Well actually，你應該可以想像，這些就是要幫助我們睡眠的。
如果你不想要你的讀者覺得無聊或甚至睡著，我建議適度變換你文字的節奏。
但我們先看案例。
我拿一篇台灣人寫的文，跟另一篇美國人寫的，來做比較：把每個句子都分拆成不同的段落，句子的長短就一目了然了。
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但我們先看案例。
我拿一篇台灣人寫的文，跟另一篇美國人寫的，來做比較：把每個句子都分拆成不同的段落，句子的長短就一目了然了。
📌 台灣案例：Taipei Times Opinion
1. The TAIEX last month rose above 17,000 points as rallies in steel, shipping and some non-tech stocks offset a weakness in semiconductor and electronics stocks.
2. While news about a cluster of local COVID-19 infections connected with China Airlines cargo pilots and a hotel in Taoyuan fueled selling pressure early this month and pushed the local stock market into consolidation mode, the daily market turnover in the first two trading sessions of this month hit fresh highs.
3. Moreover, Taiwan’s stock trading volume last month began to surpass that of Hong Kong for the first time in 15 years, which was beyond most market participants’ expectations.
4. Taiwan’s daily market turnover exceeding Hong Kong’s might gradually become a new normal from this year, and there are good reasons for this.
5. First, Hong Kong’s stock market has lost its appeal to foreign investors since China last year imposed national security legislation on the territory, triggering a potential flight of capital and talent.
6. Second, many wealthy Taiwanese tend to park their overseas funds in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Switzerland and the US, but government statistics showed that more than 80 percent of funds repatriated by wealthy individuals last year were from Hong Kong, as they saw the political situation in the territory worsen after its self-governance, human rights and freedom of speech were further suppressed.
7. Third, China’s new NASDAQ-style stock board — the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR board — has emerged as a fast-growing capital markets center for Chinese companies at a time when rising China-US tensions have triggered concerns about their prospects of listing in New York, posing a growing challenge to the Hong Kong stock exchange.
8. On the other hand, Taiwan’s economic fundamentals, the central bank’s adoption of extraordinary monetary easing and the government’s fiscal policies have fueled continued rallies in the nation’s stock market since last year.
9. It might be too early to tell how long the consolidation trend might last, as a resurgent COVID-19 outbreak is coloring the global economic outlook, but some insight can be drawn from the stock market:
10. Taiwan’s GDP grew a larger-than-expected 8.16 percent in the first quarter, as exports and private investment remained healthy.
都是一堆很長的句子對不對？我們來看美國人寫的句子，也是一個主流媒體的 opinion 文。
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📌 美國案例：New York Times Opinion
1. I miss torturing Liz Cheney.
2. But it must be said that the petite blonde from Wyoming suddenly seems like a Valkyrie amid halflings.
3. She is willing to sacrifice her leadership post — and risk her political career — to continue calling out Donald Trump’s Big Lie.
4. She has decided that, if the price of her job is being as unctuous to Trump as Kevin McCarthy is, it isn’t worth it, because McCarthy is totally disgracing himself.
5. It has been a dizzying fall for the scion of one of the most powerful political families in the land, a conservative chip off the old block who was once talked about as a comer, someone who could be the first woman president.
6. How naïve I was to think that Republicans would be eager to change the channel after Trump cost them the Senate and the White House and unleashed a mob on them.
7. I thought the Donald would evaporate in a poof of orange smoke, ending a supremely screwed-up period of history.
8. But the loudest mouth is not shutting up.
9. And Republicans continue to listen, clinging to the idea that the dinosaur is the future.
10. “We can’t grow without him,” Lindsey Graham said.
📌 Note: 即使是比較長的句子，這位作者也會用標點符號拆散它：She is willing to sacrifice her leadership post — and risk her political career — to continue calling out Donald Trump’s Big Lie. 這就好比用句點一樣，讓我們讀起來有點停頓休息的時間。
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📌 注意到了嗎？
台灣人寫的英文，句子都偏長，而且長度都差不多。
美國人寫的就不一樣了：一個只有五個字的句子開頭，然後一堆稍微長一點的句子，然後再來一串短句。
你可能懷疑我故意挑選很極端了例子出來，而且幹嘛專門打台灣人呢？
所以想到這裡，我從我的書架上，隨便挑了兩本跟科技有關的書出來。左邊的，是美國人，矽谷知名投資人 Peter Thiel。右邊的是德國人，但注意了，是一個英文非常好的德國人。他不但是世界經濟論壇的創辦人，研究所也是在哈佛大學唸的。
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📌 兩本書 Introduction 是怎麼寫的？
Klaus Schwab (德國)：
Of the many diverse and fascinating challenges we face today, the most intense and important is how to understand and shape the new technology revolution, which entails nothing less than a transformation of humankind.
We are at the beginning of a revolution that is fundamentally changing the way we live, work, and relate to one another.
In its scale, scope and complexity, what I consider to be the fourth industrial revolution is unlike anything humankind has experienced before.
Peter Thiel (美國)：
Whenever I interview someone for a job, I like to ask this question: "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"
The question sounds easy because it's straightforward.
Actually, it's very hard to answer.
It's intellectually difficult because the knowledge that everyone is taught in school is by definition agreed upon.
See the difference?
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📌 如何變換節奏呢？
需要Andrew的完整分享請留言「There’s rhythm in writing~」。
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凛として咲く花の如く / Rin to shite saku hana no gotoku / 宛如凜風中綻放的花 / Like a flower that blooms bravely
作詞 / Lyricist：あさき
作曲 / Composer：紅色リトマス（TOMOSUKE）
編曲 / Arranger：紅色リトマス（TOMOSUKE）
歌 / Singer：オカマチコ
翻譯：CH（CH Music Channel）
意譯：CH（CH Music Channel）
English Translation: from the wiki
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中文翻譯 / Chinese Translation :
https://home.gamer.com.tw/creationDetail.php?sn=5270562
英文翻譯 / English Translation :
https://popnmusic.fandom.com/wiki/Rin_to_shite_saku_hana_no_gotoku
日文歌詞 / Japanese Lyrics :
春深く夢の輪郭を ぼかして 行き過ぎて 舞い戻る
花びらは仕草を追いかけ 薄明かりの下で 密やか
つまさきであやす月の兎は踊り
星の間を飛び回る 口笛吹き
飛沫 あがる わたし 掛ける
追いかける星は まわる まわる ちいさなつぼみ
さいて さいて 月にお願い おだやかな影に薄化粧
しらず しらず えいや！と投げた つぼみは行方知れず のまま
見下ろして小さくなった雲の間に
芽を出した線香花火 つぶらな夢
飛沫 あがる 火花 翔る
問いかけた星は かわる がわる 顔を変えた
さいて さいて くるりとまわる 舞姫の如く たまゆらに
思い思いに動く影と 背中を合わせて ああ 走る！
弧を描き 影は延びる 陽炎の先に
さいた あった！ まあるい花が
さいた さいた 星の欠片が 月の裏側で泣いていた
気付かぬうちに 隠れていた兎も また弧 描く
さいて さいて 月にお願い おだやかな影に薄化粧
しらず しらず えいや！と投げた つぼみは 行方知れず
さいて さいた 風に揺られて おだやかな坂は薄化粧
下駄鳴らして口笛合わせ 凛として はんなりの こころ
中文歌詞 / Chinese Lyrics :
春意正深，浸暈了夢的輪廓，花瓣紛飛、舞態極妍
薄曉微光下靜悄地，飄揚的繁華隨著動作飛繞於身
月兔墊著爪稍舞蹈
吹著口哨，在群星間來回穿梭
水濺花揚，我奔跑著
追逐的明星，正轉啊、轉動著，恰似幼嫩的花蕾
「綻放吧、綻放吧！」向月娘祈禱，並為靜宓的月影淡施薄妝
「不明白、不明白呀！」唉聲嘆氣，始終無從知曉，渺小花蕾的蹤跡
因俯瞰而微渺的從雲間隙
綻放恰似花蕾的線香煙火，燃著甜美的夢
激起水沫、揚起火花
於此叩問的繁星，一張接著一張，反覆變換面貌
「綻放吧、綻放吧！」反覆迴旋，猶如稍縱即逝的輕巧舞女般
想念著、想念著的那個身影，與記憶形影交織，就這樣走吧！
舒展身姿、描繪形影，在此驕陽之前——
凜然地綻放了一朵，好完滿的花啊
綻放吧、綻放吧，於月娘身後哭泣的、宙海繁星的殘片
卻沒有注意到，躲著的兔兒也再度描起新月的身姿
「綻放吧、綻放吧！」向月娘祈禱，並為靜宓的月影淡施薄妝
「不明白、不明白呀！」唉聲嘆氣，始終無從知曉，渺小花蕾的蹤跡
「綻放吧！綻放啦！」風兒搖曳，為沉靜的丘壑淡施薄妝
木屐鳴響、口哨伴歌，凜冽綻放的是，那顆明潔絢爛之心
英文歌詞 / English Lyrics :
The outline of spring's deep dream
That had blurred way too much returns to me
When the flower petals chased after my moves,
Quiet under the dim twilight
Balancing on tiptoe, moon rabbits dance,
Whistling and flying through the stars
In a splash of color,
I begin chasing
A star spinning round,
Spinning round, a small flower bud
"Bloom, bloom!" I begged of the moon,
"And dress the gentle shadows in your light makeup."
But I never knew, never knew, augh! I give up!
I still don't know where this little flower bud will end up.
Looking down through the shrinking clouds of smoke,
A sparkler suddenly blossomed to life
In a blinding dream.
In a splash of color,
Sparks begin
And the strange stars
One after another, changed their faces
Bloom, bloom! Twirl right around
Like a ballerina for a fleeting moment
But I think, I think something's moving in the shadows
From behind my back, ah, run away!
The arc of shadow drawn
On the moon extends beyond the heat haze
And, it bloomed already! Into a round flower,
It bloomed, it bloomed! Fragments of stars
Cried on the other side of the moon and unnoticed to me,
The hidden rabbits continued
To draw an arc
"Bloom, bloom!" I begged of the moon
"And dress the gentle shadows in your light makeup."
But I never knew, never knew, augh! I give up!
I don't know these little flower buds,
But they bloom, they bloomed!
Blowing in the wind, dressing the gentle hill in light makeup
Their footsteps ring, whistling to one another
From their dignified, quietly beautiful hearts.
當鈴鼓聲響起時
是該跟著靈感先生走的時候了…
在音樂路上
進行一場不設限的實驗與冒險
韋禮安WeiBird
全新演繹經典英文單曲《Mr. Tambourine Man》
你準備好一起出發了嗎？
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韋禮安全新演繹英文單曲《Mr. Tambourine Man》致敬民歌搖滾教父 Bob Dylan，這首歌是 Bob Dylan 被改編最多次的經典作品之一，《Mr. Tambourine Man》是一首關於「靈感」的歌曲，韋禮安化身為「鈴鼓手先生」，以輕鬆率性的唱腔和編曲重新詮釋，帶著隨性反叛的冒險精神，透過旋律不疾不徐地恣意地暢想和夢想。
《Mr. Tambourine Man》在單曲封面和 MV 設計中特別以六〇年代的復古配色為視覺基調，歌曲旋律從簡單到豐富的層層變化，象徵靈感從點線面的迸發，視覺上更用幾何色塊來呈現樂器的律動。就像《Mr. Tambourine Man》歌曲中一再重複的「I’ll come followin’ you」，對韋禮安來說，沒有靈感時最簡單的解方不是原地等待，而是出發尋找，藉由音樂、電影、書籍，甚至只是烹飪⋯⋯等等生活裡與音樂毫無相關的事情輸入新的刺激，讓身體和腦袋動一動，自然而然就能產生新的創作能量。現在就打開耳朵，準備好一起出發！
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♩ 歌詞 Lyrics
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
Though I know that evening's empire has returned into sand
Vanished from my hand
Left me blindly here to stand, but still not sleeping
My weariness amazes me, I'm branded on my feet
I have no one to meet
And the ancient empty street's too dead for dreaming
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship
My senses have been stripped
My hands can't feel to grip
My toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wandering
I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade
Into my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way, I promise to go under it
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
Though you might hear laughing, spinning, swinging madly across the sun
It's not aimed at anyone
It's just escaping on the run
And but for the sky there are no fences facing
And if you hear vague traces of skipping reels of rhyme
To your tambourine in time
It's just a ragged clown behind
I wouldn't pay it any mind
It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time
Far past the frozen leaves
The haunted frightened trees
Out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky
With one hand waving free
Silhouetted by the sea
Circled by the circus sands
With all memory and fate
Driven deep beneath the waves
Let me forget about today until tomorrow
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning I'll come following you
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♩ 音樂製作 Song Credit
作詞｜Bob Dylan
作曲｜Bob Dylan
製作人 Producer｜韋禮安 WeiBird、蔡尚文 Aven Tsai
編曲 Arrangement｜保卜．巴督路 Baobu Badulu
吉他 Guitars｜保卜．巴督路 Baobu Badulu
和聲編寫 Chorus Arrangement｜韋禮安 WeiBird
和聲 Chorus｜韋禮安 WeiBird
口琴 Harmonica｜藤井俊充 Toshi Fujii
製作行政 Production Administrator｜廖婧紋 Melrose Liao
錄音工程師 Recording Engineers｜蔡尚文 Aven Tsai (Vocal、Chorus、Harmonica)、單為明 Link Shan (Guitars)
錄音室 Recording Studios｜Awesome Music Studio (Vocal、Chorus、Harmonica)、Lights Up Studio (Guitars)
混音工程師 Mixing Engineer｜宋星凱 Sean M. Sinclair
混音錄音室 Mixing Studio｜ff studio
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♩ MV製作 Music Video Credit
美術設計 Art Design | 蘇柔方 JouFang Su
動態設計 Motion Design｜朱詠任 Tino Chu
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👉 完整文章：https://apnews.com/article/europe-middle-east-fires-greece-forests-f9a7b7f02a8fc069847d39acd18efe04
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本集 timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:42 第一遍英文朗讀
3:29 新聞 & 相關單字解說
14:07 額外單字片語
20:08 第二遍英文朗讀
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本集提到的單字片語：
Greece 希臘
Greek 希臘的
Unprecedented 史無前例
Fire brigade 消防隊
Pine forests 松樹林
Smoke 煙霧
Ash 灰燼
Apocalyptic 世界末日的
Jetties 碼頭
Ferries 渡輪
Boats 船
Evacuate 撤離
Athens 雅典
Chaotic 混亂
Prime minister 總理
Kyriakos Mitsotakis 希臘總理米佐塔基斯
Televised 有電視轉播的
Compensation 賠償
Reforestation 造林
Regeneration effort 重建復原工作
Planes 飛機
Helicopters 直升機
Vehicles 消防車輛
Manpower (消防)人力
Turkey 土耳其
North Macedonia 北馬其頓
Montenegro 蒙特內哥羅
Arsonist 縱火犯
Arson 縱火罪
Russia 俄羅斯
Siberia 西伯利亞
North Pole 北極
2015 Paris Climate agreement 巴黎協議
Methane 甲烷
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