tact, tactful, push somebody's buttons, vibrotactile, tactile, haptics, inaudible, takt, takt time, pulse

In Germany, the 1st of May is a national holiday – is it also in your country? It's the perfect opportunity to take a relaxing walk through nature as it blossoms, much like in this atmospheric picture by the English painter Malers Alfred Sisley. Do you like it?

Fun fact: Sisley was considered very shy, standing lifelong in the shadows of

Pierre Auguste Renoir

and

Claude Monet

, with whom he was friends. In a letter to his brother,

Vincent van Gogh

called him “the most tactful and sensitive of the Impressionists.”

Windy Afternoon in May, 1880

Alfred Sisley

English

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Work efficiency is highly emphasized in many plants. Sometimes, it may be over-emphasized. Workers must run from station to station to meet their required Takt time.

push somebody's buttons

to do exactly the right thing to get people to act the way you want He was an extremely good speaker and knew just how to push anaudience's buttons to keep them interested.

Usage notes: also used in the form know what buttons to push: People in your own family know exactly what buttons to push toupset you.

独Cherry製「MX tactile feelスイッチ」(通称：茶軸スイッチ)を採用しながらも

A tact switch is type of switch that is only on when the button is pressed. As soon as you release the button, the circuit is broken. Think of the keys on a keyboard.


《中英對照讀新聞》Humans "hear" through their skin 人類透過皮膚來聽
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A study found that inaudible puffs of air delivered alongside certain sounds influenced what participants thought they were listening to.
研究發現，隨著某種聲音傳遞的一股聽不見的空氣聲，會影響參與者認為他們正在聽的聲音。
Writing in the journal Nature, the team said the findings showed that audio and visual clues were not the only important factors in how people hear. The findings may lead to better aids for the hard of hearing, experts said.
團隊在自然期刊上表示，這項發現顯示，聽覺與視覺線索，不是人怎麼聽聲音的唯一重要因素。專家說，這項發現或許有助於幫助聽力困難者。
It is already well known that visual cues from a speaker’s face can enhance or interfere with how a person hears what is being said.
目前已知，說話者臉部的視覺線索，可能增加或干擾聽者聽到的聲音。
In the latest study, researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver wanted to look at whether tactile sensations also affected how sounds are heard.
在這份最新研究中，溫哥華英屬哥倫比亞大學的研究人員希望探究，有形的感覺是否也會影響聲音被聽到的方式。
They compared sounds which when spoken are accompanied by a small inaudible breath of air, such as "pa" and "ta" with sounds which do not such as "ba" and "da". At the same time, participants were given-or not-a small puff of air to the back of the hand or the neck.
他們比較說話時，伴隨聽不見的一小股空氣的「pa」、 「ta」等聲音，以及伴隨聽起來不像「ba」、 「da」的聲音；在此同時，又對參與者的手背或頸部吹或不吹一小股空氣。
They found that "ba" and "da", known as unaspirated sounds, were heard as the aspirated equivalents, "pa" and "ta", when presented alongside the puff of air.
他們發現，「ba」、 「da」等不送氣音，與空氣一起出現時，會被視為與「pa」、 「ta」一樣的氣音。
It suggests people also use tactile sensory information alongside other cues to decipher what is being said.
這顯示人們使用有形的知覺訊息與其他線索，來解讀別人說的話。


新聞辭典

inaudible：形容詞，聽不見的。例句：The noise of the machinery made her voice inaudible.（機器的噪音讓她的聲音聽不到。）
alongside：副詞，在旁邊，沿著。例句：Britain fought alongside France, Turkey and Sardinia during the Crimean War.（英國在克里米亞戰爭與法國、土耳其與薩丁尼亞並肩作戰。）
decipher：動詞，破解（密碼等）；辨認（潦草的字跡等）。例句：Can you decipher the writing on this envelope?（你可以解讀信封上的字嗎？）


Long neglected in favor of the sensory heavyweights of vision and hearing, the study of touch lately has been gaining new cachet among neuroscientists, who sometimes refer to it by the amiably jargony term of haptics, Greek for touch. They’re exploring the implications of recently reported tactile illusions, of people being made to feel as though they had three arms, for example, or were levitating out of their bodies, with the hope of gaining insight into how the mind works.

Others are turning to haptics for more practical purposes, to build better touch screen devices and robot hands, a more well-rounded virtual life. “There’s a fair amount of research into new ways of offloading information onto our tactile sense,” said Lynette Jones of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “To have your cellphone buzzing as opposed to ringing turned out to have a lot of advantages in some situations, and the question is, where else can vibrotactile cues be applied?”

Readers of weightier fare, including literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, have been less inclined to go digital. They seem to prefer the heft and durability, the tactile pleasures, of what we still call 'real books'─the kind you can set on a shelf.純文學小說和敘事性非虛構類文學等嚴肅作品的讀者不願讀電子書。他們似乎更喜歡可以放在書架上的“真正的圖書”那種厚重、耐久和令人愉悅的触 感。

Wines of The Times: Rye Whiskey
In a tasting of Rye Whiskey, the tasting panel rediscovered the world's great forgotten spirit, offering a tactile pleasure unlike any other.

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中起瑪有兩處翻譯不對或不好：
Deming講什麼是鞋子/女鞋之品質，其中說A tact in the insole  ?

我想insole是[ n. （靴）底; 敷皮].比較容易了解，這tact一般字典解釋為「老練;機智;得體;圓滑[U]」，都不適用。查它比較早的用法為[Archaic. The sense of touch.]，所以這應該是”內底之觸感嗎?”

另外，他講紙張中含rag ，這是現在比較罕見的高級「布漿紙」。

She is forthright and without tact, but her forgiving nature takes the sting from ...

Definition of tact

Noun

[mass noun]

• skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues:the inspector broke the news to me with tact and consideration 
  
  處理人際問題及複雜議題的能力和敏感度

Origin:

mid 17th century (denoting the sense of touch): via French from Latin tactus 'touch, sense of touch', from tangere 'to touch'

Definition of tactful

adjective

• having or showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues:they need a tactful word of advice

Derivatives

tactfully

adverb

tactfulness

noun

tactile

(tăk'təl, -tīl')
adj.

1. 1. Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible.
   2. Characterized by or conveying an illusion of tangibility: “Heaney must thus continue to be a poet rich in tactile language” (Helen Vendler).
2. Used for feeling: a tactile organ.
3. Of, relating to, or proceeding from the sense of touch; tactual: a tactile reflex.

[From Latin tāctilis, from tāctus, past participle of tangere, to touch. See tact.]

tactilely tac'tile·ly adv.
tactility tac·til'i·ty (-tĭl'ĭ-tē) n.

Vibrotactile aid: A mechanical instrument that helps individuals who are deaf to detect and interpret sounds through their sense of touch. It is called a vibrotactile aid because it serves as an aid by permitting a person to feel the vibrations, in this case, of sounds.


 2004/5/16語言學習：脈動、糾纏

《紐約時報雜誌》的語言觀察專欄，上周的主題為Pulse（By WILLIAM SAFIRE Published: May 9, 2004）。我曾請過瑞麟兄（rl）解釋一下該文關於「回扣」

的說法。上周末，他惠賜「試論 takt time 的譯法」，無意間剛好觸及到美國政壇關於pulse的新興用法。因為我回答takt time為「每一精實系統的『心跳』或脈動」）。

美國流行的"pulse"（及物動詞），它的同義語最佳字選為 "pester"（ the best synonym for the transitive vogue verb pulse is ''pester.''） ，此即「糾纏」。

查<<教育部 國語辭典>>關於它的解釋有二。
解釋一： 互相纏繞。《文選˙賈誼˙鵩鳥賦》：「夫禍之與福兮，何異糾纏？」《文選˙顏延年˙陶徵士誄》：「糾纏斡流，冥漠報施。」
解釋二：比喻煩擾不休。《聊齋志異˙卷二˙董生》：「勿復相糾纏，我行且死。」

所以，老美用pulse，不只是「把脈」，還進一步讓受方「煩 擾不休」（In this action-oriented usage, you don't just sit there pulsing, throbbing, intransitively staying alive; you pulse the system, regularly pushing, annoying, demanding.）
作者WS指出，在上世紀名英國文人卡萊爾在談德國大帝在戰事上，用過此義：
Thomas Carlyle, writing in 1865 about Frederick the Great, noted, ''Such charging and recharging, pulsing and repulsing, has there been.''

對於官場、學界甚或產業內的組織人（the Organization Person）而言，它的名詞用法，正如TASKING般（執 行某專案的指派(the assignment to carry out a particular project)），「公認」（few will non-concur）會成為不可或缺的字眼。（After a review of this word history, few will non-concur that pulsing has now joined tasking (the assignment to carry out a particular project) as an indispensable verb in the language of the Organization Person. ）


資料來源：http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/magazine/09ONLANGUAGE.html

瑞麟：試論 takt time 的譯法


昨晚在何嘉仁新南店新書架上見到了《精實革命》，

不過我並沒有買，因為已經有將近二十年沒碰生產管理的書籍了。 瀏覽過後，對於書中索引內 takt time 的譯法有點小意見，想提供你參考。 我記得索引裡是譯為「節拍時間」，我認為這是有點偷懶。 當年經常為了在shop floor要有多少測試／調整／修理站和O&E（前身為TEO）部門吵翻天， 當中 takt time 這個計算值就扮演著重要角色，因此我對這個德英混血詞組很有「異見」。 純粹站在一般讀者的角度來看，takt 這個德文單字，它本身在音樂方面相對於英文裡的 bar 和 time，在電子學方面相當於 (clock) pulse 或 signal，所以 takt time 譯作「節拍時間」我覺得是有偷懶之嫌，也不能令讀者「一目了然」。 參考Lean Manfacturing Strategy 網站上對 takt time 的定義是 "the desired time between units of prodution output, synchonized to customer demand." 其簡化的數學式如下: takt time = available production time / customer demand 至於比較恰當的譯法，我覺得不妨參考清大研究生陳俊元所做專案中的用語：產出間隔時間。 rl 11:00 2004/5/15

Definition of pulse

noun

• 1a rhythmical throbbing of the arteries as blood is propelled through them, typically as felt in the wrists or neck:the doctor found a faint pulse the idea was enough to set my pulse racing
• each successive throb of the arteries or heart.

• 2a single vibration or short burst of sound, electric current, light, or other wave:a pulse of gamma rays [as modifier]:a pulse generator
• a musical beat or other regular rhythm.

• 3the central point of energy and organization in an area or activity:those close to the financial and economic pulse maintain that there have been fundamental changes

• 4 Biochemistry a measured amount of an isotopic label given to a culture of cells.

verb

• 1 [no object] throb rhythmically; pulsate:a knot of muscles at the side of his jaw pulsed

• 2 [with object] modulate (a wave or beam) so that it becomes a series of pulses: the current was pulsed (as adjective pulsed)pulsed outputs
• apply a pulsed signal to (a device): a loudspeaker pulsed by a capacitor discharge
• Biochemistryshort for pulse-label.

Phrases

feel (or take) the pulse of

determine the heart rate of (someone) by feeling and timing the pulsation of an artery: a nurse came in and took his pulse

ascertain the general mood or opinion of:the conference will be an opportunity to feel the pulse of those working in the field

Derivatives

pulseless

adjective

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin pulsus 'beating', from pellere 'to drive, beat'