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《中英對照讀新聞》White House visitor logs show up famous names白宮訪客紀錄簿出現名人大名
◎張沛元
中英對照
White House visitor logs show up famous names
白宮訪客紀錄簿出現名人大名
Did Barack Obama’s controversial ex-pastor Jeremiah Wright visit the White House? Or did the great Michael Jordan shoot some hoops with the president on his basketball court?
頗具爭議性的巴拉克．歐巴馬的前本堂牧師耶利米．萊特曾造訪白宮？抑或是偉大的麥可．喬丹曾與總統在他的籃球場上灌籃？
The answer to both questions is no.
這兩個問題的答案都是否定的。
But those famous names, and others, were thrown up in an exercise in government transparency Friday, when the Obama administration released the first 500 names on a list of the 100,000 people cleared to visit the White House every year.
但這些眾所周知的姓名，以及其他人的姓名，都在週五的一場政府透明度活動上、歐巴馬政府公佈每年獲准參訪白宮的10萬人中的前500個姓名時曝光。
Though the administration touted the release as evidence of "transparency like you’ve never seen before," the list did spark confusion, as some people with famous names were listed on the visitor logs.
儘管行政部門宣稱此一公佈行為足以證明「（政府的）前所未見的透明度，」但該名單卻也引起困惑，因為訪客簿上也列出了一些與名人同名的人。
The White House said several "false positives" of people saddled with famous names were on the list of 500 guest entrances to the White House, including that of one Jeremiah Wright.
白宮表示，500名踏入白宮大門的訪客清單上，有不少普通老百姓因同名之累而「讓人誤會」，其中包括耶利米．萊特。
新聞辭典
show up：片語，出現，露面；暴露。例句：When will the train show up?（火車什麼時候會來？）
transparency：名詞，透明，透明度。transparent，形容詞，透明的；坦率的；一目了然的。
false positive：在醫學上指的是「偽陽性」，在阻擋垃圾郵件的程式中，指的是真正的訊息被誤判為垃圾郵件，因此遭到程式阻擋並退回給寄件者。
saddle someone with someone or something：讓某人肩負重擔。saddle，名詞，馬鞍；動詞，加馬鞍；使負擔。例句：I didn’t mean to saddle you with my problems.（我無意拿我的問題來增加你的負擔。）
hoop
noun [C]
a ring of wood, metal or plastic, or sometimes a half ring:
The dogs had been trained to jump through hoops.
n.
- A circular band of metal or wood put around a cask or barrel to bind the staves together.
- A large wooden, plastic, or metal ring, especially one used as a plaything or for trained animals to jump through.
- One of the lightweight circular supports for a hoop skirt.
- A circular, ringlike earring.
- One of a pair of circular wooden or metal frames used to hold material taut for embroidery or similar needlework. Basketball. The basket. A field goal: hit a big hoop.also hoops The game of basketball.
- Sports. A croquet wicket.
- To hold together or support with or as if with a hoop.
- To encircle.
jump (or go) through the hoop
- To undergo a rigorous trial or examination.
[Middle English hop.]
━━ n. たが, （輪回し遊びの）輪; （サーカスで動物がくぐり抜ける）輪; （スカートを広げる）張り骨; (croquetの）柱門; （バスケットボールの網をつるす）リング.
go through the hoop(s) 苦労する.
put … through the hoop(s) 人をつらい目に遭わせる.
━━ vt. たがを掛ける; 取り巻く; 輪をはめる.
hoop・er ━━ n. おけ屋.
hoop・man, hoop・ster 〔俗〕 バスケットボール選手.
“How are you going to shoot a couple of hoops with your son if you can’t even find the basketball?”
hoop・skirt hoopでふくらませたスカート.
hoopster[hoop・ster]
- 発音記号[húːpstər]
taut
adjective
1 tight or completely stretched:
a taut rope
He kept his eyes on the road ahead, his face taut with concentration.
Compare slack (NOT TIGHT).
2 LITERARY tense and excited or nervous:
His latest film was described in today's paper as a taut thriller.
There was a taut edge to Niall 's voice.
3 LITERARY describes writing or speech which is controlled, clear and brief:
taut prose
tauten
verb [I or T]
The muscles in his face suddenly tautened.
conspiratorial
adjective
1 relating to a secret plan to do something bad, illegal or against someone's wishes
2 showing that you share a secret:
They exchanged conspiratorial glances.
conspiratorially
adverb
She heard them whispering conspiratorially in the bedroom.
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