Japan pays jobless incomers to go

Temporary workers in Tokyo protest at high unemployment

Japan's unemployment rate is at a three-year high

Japan is offering 300,000 yen ($3,000;£2,000) for a plane ticket home for some unemployed overseas workers.

In addition, there is 200,000 yen for each family member leaving the country.

The scheme only applies to hundreds of thousands of South Americans of Japanese descent, living in the country on special visas for factory work.

agent

(ā'jənt)

One that acts or has the power or authority to act.
One empowered to act for or represent another: an author's agent; an insurance agent.
A means by which something is done or caused; instrument.
A force or substance that causes a change: a chemical agent; an infectious agent.
A representative or official of a government or administrative department of a government: an FBI agent.
A spy.
Linguistics. The noun or noun phrase that specifies the person through whom or the means by which an action is effected.

v., a·gent·ed, a·gent·ing, a·gents. v.tr.

To act as an agent or representative for: Who will agent your next book?

v.intr.

To act as an agent or representative.

[Middle English, from Latin agēns, agent-, present participle of agere, to do.]

Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: agent

A software routine that waits in the background and performs an action when a specified event occurs. For example, agents could transmit a summary file on the first day of the month or monitor incoming data and alert the user when a certain transaction has arrived. Agents are also called "intelligent agents," "personal agents" and "bots." See mobile agent, bot and workflow.

Definition

incomer

1. One who comes in.

Outgoers and incomers.

Lew Wallace. 2. One who succeeds another, as a tenant of land, houses, etc. [Eng.] incoming Show phonetics
adjective [before noun]
1 arriving at or coming towards a place:
incoming mail/telephone calls
an incoming flight

2 soon to start something such as a job because recently chosen or elected:
the incoming government
What are the biggest problems faced by the incoming president?
US Incoming freshmen (= students in the first year at college) start a week before everyone else.

小讀者留言：「agent 是達調和鼎鼐之妙的那項中心作用者、作用劑。
每道菜都有其關鍵物或關鍵手續，即其cooking agent。比方有的在於糖提味，有的在燒烤火候工夫，

有的在用的那個橄欖油，有的在最後過火的一把九層塔... 此外如：油、水、火、蒸汽等等，也都是cooking agent 。對不起再補充一句，如涼拌菜的cooking agent為鹽。
把"食材" 變成(cook) "食物"，靠的是cooking agent。所以我覺得"調味"不足以盡其意。涼拌菜裡的鹽，是最好的例子。鹽在此的作用，不僅是調味，而是在cook食材，將之變成"熟"食(cooked)。包子的cooking agent是蒸汽；冰淇淋的cooking agent是什麼呢；我想是"冷"吧？」

小讀者留言：「所以譯成什麼好呢？我也不知道。烹調促成物?烹飪作因?烹飪促因?烹飪仲介物烹飪掮客... :-) 」
姓名： nobody 留言：「cooking agent 炊媒?」
小讀者留言：「讚喲！很有那個語境耶！」

小評：
《教育部國語辭典》
鼐ㄋㄞˋ
解釋：大鼎。爾雅˙釋器：鼎絕大謂之鼐。郭璞˙注：最大者。詩經˙周頌˙絲衣：「鼐鼎及鼒。」毛亨˙傳：「大鼎謂之鼐。」

【鼎鼐調和】之解釋：比喻宰相的職責。亦作調和鼎鼐。

鼎鼐，古時為傳國重器，用來代表國家。烹飪鼎鼐比喻治理國家。宋˙佚名˙梅妃傳：「設使調和四海，烹飪鼎鼐，萬乘自有憲法，賤妾何能較勝負也。」

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徵求善心人士幫忙翻譯：
R. Arnheim1984 年8月12日（p.332-33）的雜誌寫道：
參考翻譯(hc)：每回奏樂，我總會先為弓上點松香，同樣，每次運用雕刻工具之前，也會將它們上滴油，到磨刀石去磨利；不過我不能肯定松香確實會使音樂更和諧悅耳、磨刀石可研利刀具。同理，日常一天從早到晚，我們用鹽和碳酸氫鹽之屬刷牙，喝咖啡要想提神時，選用道地的咖啡，睡前則喝除掉咖啡因的。上述這些助陣的東西（agents）盡管尚未證明有效，然而我每回都行禮如儀。我恍然大悟所謂的控制、對照實驗只在科學家得試驗室，而我日常所做所為，都但憑對許多假設的信心罷了。

Every time I begin to play, I rub my bow faithfully with rosin, and every time I used my curving tools, I hone them with a drop of oil on a whetstone; but I have no idea whether the rosin really smoothes the sound or the wheststone really sharpens the chisels. Similarly, from the morning to the evening, from brushing my teeth with salt and bicarbonate of soda to drinking real coffee to stay awake and decaffeinated coffee to sleep. I perform one ritual after another without the slightest proof that any of those agents does the duty. Since controlled experiments exist only in the laboratories of the scientists, nothing better than faith is available for my conduct.

a・gent

━━ n. 行為［動作］者; 周旋人; 代理人; （政府機関の）代表; 〔米〕セールスマン; 動因, 作因; 【文法】動作主; 【コンピュータ】エージェント ((状況認識や価値基準による判断や実行を付け加えたソフトウェアモジュール)); 【哲】（ポストモダン哲学における）自主［自律］性.
━━ vt. （代理人として）遂行する.