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Growing Numbers Advocate Independence
The year 2008 has been a historic one for Taiwan, with the opening of direct cross-Taiwan Strait transportation links marking a major milestone in relations between Taiwan and China.
Yet there is a split in public opinion over whether the fast pace of development of this relationship is to Taiwan's benefit. While 38.3 percent of respondents said China policy was on the right course, 35.1 percent disagreed. (Table 17)
In terms of relations with China, this year's survey exposed a paradoxical trend.
The State of the Nation survey first began analyzing the inclinations of Taiwan's people toward independence from and unification with China in 1994. The latest numbers reveal that 23.5 percent of respondents want formal independence for Taiwan (whether as quickly as possible or as a long-term goal), the highest percentage in the history of the poll and far higher than during the pro-independence Chen Shui-bian's eight years in power.
In contrast, only 6.5 percent of respondents hoped for unification with China (either quickly or eventually under certain conditions) – the lowest percentage ever. Some 7.6 percent of those surveyed favored unification in last year's poll, down dramatically from the 13 to 18 percent who backed unification in the poll's earlier years.
The majority of Taiwanese (57.8 percent) still favored maintaining the status quo.
In the more than six months that Ma has been in power, the number of people advocating independence has risen. National Sun Yat-sen University's Lio suggests the trend reflects concern that while relations between Taiwan and China have advanced at a rapid clip over the past few months, the government has ignored the divergence that still exists domestically over Taiwan's international identity.
Lio cited the violence seen during the visit by Chinese negotiator Chen Yunlin in early November and the rise of a student movement criticizing police crackdowns of protests during the visit as indicative of the government's tone deafness on the issue.
With the opening of direct transportation links with China, respondents believed the areas the government must pay greatest attention to are economic prosperity (24.7 percent), national sovereignty (19.4 percent), and cross-strait peace (16.8 percent). (Table 19)
The poll suggests that Taiwan's people are most concerned about whether the direct links will provide momentum for positive economic growth in Taiwan.
馬上任半年，主張獨立者增加
今年也是台灣歷史上關鍵的一年；大三通使兩岸關係進入新的里程碑。
但民眾對兩岸的快速進展是否有利台灣，立場分歧。認為兩岸政策走在正確道路上的有三八．二％，但持反對意見者也有三五．一％。
在兩岸關係上，此次調查更呈現一個詭譎的趨勢。
一九九四年開始，國情調查開始分析台灣人民對於兩岸統獨發展的意向；最新數字顯示，期待獨立（包括儘快獨立及長程目標獨立兩者）的比例為歷年最高， 達二三．五％，遠高於陳水扁八年執政時期的數字；而期待統一（包括儘快統一與在一定條件下統一）的比例是歷年最低的一次，為六．五％（去年為七．六％，更 早前則在一三％到一八％之間）。但是，認為兩岸應維持現狀的人仍佔大多數，有五七．八％。
馬英九執政半年多來，主張獨立的比例卻增加了。中山大學副教授劉孟奇解釋，過去幾個月，兩岸關係走得很快，但像陳雲林事件、野草莓事件，都顯示政府忽略了台灣內部對民主價值及國家認同存在差異的現況。
兩岸三通後，人民認為政府最該注意的事項，分別是：經濟繁榮（二四．六％）、國家主權（一九．四％）、兩岸和平（一六．八％）。
民眾最關心的是，三通是否能推動台灣經濟正向成長。2008.11
CHINA’s lunar new year sees the world’s largest migration, as tens of millions of workers flock home. Deserting for a few days the factories that make the goods that fill the world’s shops, they surge back to their native villages. This week, however, as they feasted to the deafening rattle of the firecrackers lit to greet the Year of the Ox, their celebrations had an anxious tinge (see article). Many will not have jobs to go back to.
A Jukebox on MySpace That Takes Aim at AppleBy BRAD STONE
Just a few years ago, a Web site offering virtually every notable song ever recorded for free listening would have had music business executives speed-dialing their lawyers.
In the next two weeks, a battered music industry, facing slumping CD sales and a bleak future, will help to introduce just such a service, called MySpace Music.
They are never far from us, the cereal mascots of our youth. Years after we've given up loops and pebbles and puffs, last tipped the pink-tinged sludge from the bottom of a bowl into our mouths, still we can see them. Surely they hang out together at the end of Saturday-morning cartoon duty, when the inevitable Bowlers for Dollars have taken over the airwaves. Picture it: some sugar-lighted lounge. Jingles on the juke. Marshmallow bar stools. No kids allowed, ever.
"Isolarion", named after a detail on a medieval map, is unsparing, but not bleak. It blends humour and passion, for example, in the author's entanglement in a local-government consultative exercise. Mr Attlee tries valiantly to understand, and then to frustrate, the well-meaning busybodies who want to prettify the road and clear its pavements of the sprawling wares of his beloved Asian greengrocers. Seldom has the suffocating atmosphere of local democracy in Britain—politically correct yet tone-deaf, participatory in rhetoric yet bureaucratic in spirit—been better captured.
從夏公的分析研究裡，我深深感覺一個成功的小說作者所必須具備的一些精神與心理方面的素質。同時也體會到調性的重要。Tone is a literary compound of composition, which shows the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.[1] Tone may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitudes. Works of literature are often conceptualized as having at least one theme, or central question about a topic; how the theme is approached within the work constitutes the work's tone.
學以致用的結果便是在一九八九年完成《折射》，卻到了二○一一年才完成調性完全不同的《多餘的人》。第一本書本來想要用的素材，放置了很久，才被納入第二本書，便是基於同樣的理由。至於聽了前輩的意見，主動大修原稿這一個部份。我個人的感覺還是作者把持不住的責任比較大。當然，作者當年初來台灣，生活非常困苦。生活的煎逼是極大的壓力，使得作者想要獲得經濟的奧援，實在也是無可厚非的。
You can take issue with the individual works in both of the gallery shows, but their ambition is considerable and fully corroborated by the display in Boston.
take issue with sth FORMAL
to disagree strongly:
I took issue with him over his interpretation of the instructions.
prettify
tr.v., -fied, -fy·ing, -fies.
To make pretty or prettier, especially in a superficial or insubstantial way.
━━ vt. めかし立てる, 飾りたてる.
pret・ti・fi・ca・tion ━━ n.jukebox
n. A money-operated phonograph or compact disk player, equipped with pushbuttons for the selection of particular recordings.
juke
also jook n.
A roadside or rural establishment offering liquor, dancing, and often gambling and prostitution. Also called juke house, juke joint.
intr.v., juked also jooked, juk·ing jook·ing, jukes jooks.
- To play dance music, especially in a juke.
- To dance, especially in a juke or to the music of a jukebox.
[Probably from Gullah juke, joog, disorderly, wicked, of West African origin; akin to Wolof dzug, to live wickedly, and Bambara dzugu, wicked.]
tinge
noun [C]
a very slight amount of a colour or of a feeling:
His hair is starting to show tinges of grey.
I have a tinge of regret that I didn't accept her offer.
tinge
verb [T usually passive]
to contain a slight amount of:
Her joy at the birth of her son was tinged with sadness that her father had not lived to see him.
tinged
Her dark hair is now tinged with grey.
noun [C]
a very slight amount of a colour or of a feeling:
His hair is starting to show tinges of grey.
I have a tinge of regret that I didn't accept her offer.
tinge
verb [T usually passive]
to contain a slight amount of:
Her joy at the birth of her son was tinged with sadness that her father had not lived to see him.
tinged
Her dark hair is now tinged with grey.
clip (SPEED)
noun US INFORMAL
at a fast/good clip fast:
We set off at a good clip, but we gradually slowed down.
(tōn'dĕf') 音盲/音痴の(tone-deaf)
adj.
Unable to distinguish differences in musical pitch.
tone-deaf
adjective
Someone who is tone-deaf is not able to recognize different notes or sing tunes accurately.
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