2023年12月13日 星期三

nuance, Fucking Lunatic, the lunatic fringe, middle-of-the-road


Though he mostly avoided mentioning Trump until the 2020 election, Obama reportedly had some very pointed things to say about his successor in conversations with foundation donors.
Google's Moto X smartphone hugs middle of the road The Seattle Times
The Moto X uses Google's Android software and offers a 1280-by-720 display ... But the Moto X, the first flagship phone from Motorola since Google bought the ...

'Wanting'
By RICHARD FLANAGAN
Reviewed by WILLIAM BOYD
The strands of this nuanced historical novel involve a Dickensian orphan in Tasmania and Charles Dickens himself at a fraught midlife turning point.



T. 羅斯福總統說的"lunatic fringe" 它現在成為是專有名詞

middle-of-the-road

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adjective


  • avoiding extremes; moderate:the paper reflected the views of its middle-of-the-road readers
  •  (of music) tuneful but somewhat bland and unadventurous:their last record was very nice but it’s very middle-of-the-road stuff

the lunatic fringe DISAPPROVING OR HUMOROUS
people who have very strong opinions that are outside the usual range
Meaning #1 : a political unit with extreme and fanatical views
The fanatical, extremist, or irrational members of a society or group.
lunatic fringe  狂信的一派, 過激派 , 少数過激派 .
lunatic fringe
[IBM] Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software. Compare heatseeker.


這是他 T. R. 創的 慣用語


Wikiquote 的資料
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as T.R. or Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909).

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.(1912??)
1913
Matisse and Cezanne were artists labeled "the lunatic fringe" by Theodore Roosevelt.

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大陸版翻譯:「精神錯亂的一群」;

台灣版:「瘋狂邊緣」
翻譯者解釋--"羅斯福是"因為"政治上或藝術上或任何"前進"運動中那些相對於"中庸"核心多數的邊緣次要份子行為思想激進瘋狂, "所以"形容他們為lunatic fringe, 而非倒過來因為lunatic fringe本身是政治上專有名詞, 再引用來形容這些立體派. 不過台灣版的確可以改進, 也許可以譯成"瘋狂的邊緣分子"
"......而且, fringe的marginal, lunatic無理性癲味最好也表示出來, 不然原文直接用radical就可以了 若也概化推衍成中文的激進狂熱極端而隱其"原形" 似不能盡現文本意蘊的nuance, 文字表現的subtlety 因為T.R.之所以用此二字, 就是在說這些人是瘋瘋癲癲的邊緣人 那種捍衛中道, 自許正常核心的"大欺小"context心理昭然若揭"
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nuanced and cleareyed study

 Yet the rustification movement has produced hundreds of Chinese-language memoirs, many of which testify that for some young people, the time in the country­side was more nuanced or even bittersweet than he indicates.


"Nuance"的本意為何呢?
李明宗
翻閱洪雯倩所著《歐洲人文行板 音樂與文學間的時空絮語》一書,在〈美感,來自孤寂的凝視——蕭邦〉一文中,以下數句話特別引起我關注:
【蕭邦要的是Nuance:精細入微之處。一種孤寂凝視的美感。……事實上,一個潛心功課的藝術家,過的日子,就和僧侶是沒什麼兩樣的。靜心諦聽,見性生慧。孤獨中,一再的自我要求,為的,就是精緻靈性化的生活。】
到底 "Nuance"的本意為何呢?經查大略有以下的意義:
★ a subtle distinction or variation (某種細緻的差異或變化)
★ a subtle quality (某種精微的品質)
★ sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate shadings (as of meaning, feeling, or value) (具有感性、知覺、或能力去表達意義、感覺、或價值的精妙光影)
我立即聯想到這一年多來,我小孩修練烘焙咖啡豆的心路歷程,與沖泡咖啡手法的獨特細膩,我以往喝咖啡從未如此講究感官精微的差異。
nuance
n.音・調意味感情などの微妙な差違ニュアンス陰影微妙な色合いof〕.
  1. A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation.
  2. Expression or appreciation of subtle shades of meaning, feeling, or tone: a rich artistic performance, full of nuance.
[French, from Old French, from nuer, to shade, cloud, from nue, cloud, from Vulgar Latin *nūba, from Latin nūbēs.]
nuanced nu'anced adj.
SYNONYMS nuance, gradation, shade. These nouns denote a slight variation or differentiation between nearly identical entities: sensitive to delicate nuances of style; gradations of feeling from infatuation to deep affection; subtle shades of meaning.



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