On Tuesday night, President Trump spoke of a “growing humanitarian and security crisis” at the southern border, as if the word “humanitarian” would vouch for the word “security,” like a plus-one at a party.
This has fed a fear of rising social inequalities, and the feeling that unseen barriers are preventing new talent, new ideas —literally, new blood — from entering politics, and from helping Japan find a way out of its morass.
“It takes a blood test to get elected these days,” said Sota Kato, a senior fellow at the Tokyo Foundation, a private research organization. “It is a symptom of how Japanese society has lost its postwar dynamism and become more rigid and less democratic.”
女作家蒙哥馬利一百年前出版的小說《清秀佳人》已成經典名著，她的生平軼事也成書迷追蹤的話題。
經典童書《清秀佳人》（Anne of Green Gables）中，十一歲的紅髮女主角安‧雪莉，發想靈感竟是美國一樁兇殺社會新聞中的模特兒名媛？經過研究者鍥而不捨的追查，最近真相大白。
1908年，加拿大女作家露西‧蒙哥馬利（Lucy Maud Montgomery）出版《清秀佳人》。三十四歲的女作家一定想不到這本處女作會大暢銷，半年熱賣兩萬本，更連續推出多本續集，登上經典寶座。從 1919年拍成默片起，《清秀佳人》多次改編上大小銀幕，尤其1980年代電視電影最是轟動，在台灣播出時掀起驚人風潮，書市並爆出中譯授權爭議。紅髮安 的故事，譯成三十六種語言，全球銷售破五千萬冊，是無數書迷成長時的枕邊愛書。
今年慶祝《清秀佳人》出版百年，故事場景加拿大愛德華王子島安排了一整年系列慶祝活動。蒙哥馬利家屬也授權出新書，請出加拿大知名童書作家芭姬‧威爾森 （Budge Wilson）寫《清秀佳人前傳》（Before Green Gables），以安的出身和陰錯陽差被收養前的童年生活作文章；另外精心編印復刻初版封面的《清秀佳人》百年典藏版，蒙哥馬利早年札記本也精裝出書。影 劇圈跟著動員，紅星莎莉‧麥克琳、芭芭拉‧荷西在新電視影集中重新詮釋溫馨感人的真情故事。
【聯合報╱李維國／報導】2008.08.31
assert or confirm as a result of one's own experience that something is true or accurately so described.
"the explosive used is of my own formulation, and I can vouch for its efficiency"
throw one's weight behind
confirm that someone is who they say they are or that they are of good character.
"he was refused entrance until someone could vouch for him"
- The generally triangular section of wall at the end of a pitched roof, occupying the space between the two slopes of the roof.
- The whole end wall of a building or wing having a pitched roof.
- A triangular, usually ornamental architectural section, as one above an arched door or window.
[Middle English gable, gavel, from Norman French gable (perhaps of Celtic origin) and from Old Norse gafl.]
gabled ga'bled adj.
ga・ble
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