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The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) said Thursday there was no truth to a social media report that a French military vessel had anchored in waters off Taiwan's west coast the previous day.
https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202108120018
Chen Su-chen (陳素貞), widow of democracy activist Chen Wen-chen (陳文成), said in an open letter that she hopes President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) will take action to uncover the truth about the 40-year-old case during the three years she has left in office.
https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202107030016
There’s rhythm in writing! 🎶
這個禮拜Presentality的Andrew來分享英文寫作的節奏!
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我的工作需要看非常多的英文。
其中有英文母語的人寫的，也有非母語的人寫的。最近，我注意到一個兩者之間很明顯的差別。這個差別很少有人提到，因為它無關文法正確，也不是有學問的用語，或是文雅的詞彙。
是句子的長短。
Well，更正確的來說，是長句跟短句的交錯。我發現，非母語人士寫的英文句子，不但比英文母語的人寫的長，而且是大部分句子都很長。
母語的人，尤其是很會寫的人，則是會把長句跟短句混合搭配。
那又怎樣？
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你可能會說 ok，以英文為母語的人比較會用短的句子，那又怎樣？句子的長短，跟我寫作的好壞，有關嗎？
關係可大了。
就像音樂，或是影片，文字也是「內容」。只要是「內容」，就有它的節奏。你可以想像一首曲子，從頭到尾都是很長的音，而且一點變化都沒有嗎？或是一部很長的影片，從頭到尾都是很長的畫面，而且一點節奏的變化都沒有嗎？
Well actually，你應該可以想像，這些就是要幫助我們睡眠的。
如果你不想要你的讀者覺得無聊或甚至睡著，我建議適度變換你文字的節奏。
但我們先看案例。
我拿一篇台灣人寫的文，跟另一篇美國人寫的，來做比較：把每個句子都分拆成不同的段落，句子的長短就一目了然了。
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但我們先看案例。
我拿一篇台灣人寫的文，跟另一篇美國人寫的，來做比較：把每個句子都分拆成不同的段落，句子的長短就一目了然了。
📌 台灣案例：Taipei Times Opinion
1. The TAIEX last month rose above 17,000 points as rallies in steel, shipping and some non-tech stocks offset a weakness in semiconductor and electronics stocks.
2. While news about a cluster of local COVID-19 infections connected with China Airlines cargo pilots and a hotel in Taoyuan fueled selling pressure early this month and pushed the local stock market into consolidation mode, the daily market turnover in the first two trading sessions of this month hit fresh highs.
3. Moreover, Taiwan’s stock trading volume last month began to surpass that of Hong Kong for the first time in 15 years, which was beyond most market participants’ expectations.
4. Taiwan’s daily market turnover exceeding Hong Kong’s might gradually become a new normal from this year, and there are good reasons for this.
5. First, Hong Kong’s stock market has lost its appeal to foreign investors since China last year imposed national security legislation on the territory, triggering a potential flight of capital and talent.
6. Second, many wealthy Taiwanese tend to park their overseas funds in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Switzerland and the US, but government statistics showed that more than 80 percent of funds repatriated by wealthy individuals last year were from Hong Kong, as they saw the political situation in the territory worsen after its self-governance, human rights and freedom of speech were further suppressed.
7. Third, China’s new NASDAQ-style stock board — the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR board — has emerged as a fast-growing capital markets center for Chinese companies at a time when rising China-US tensions have triggered concerns about their prospects of listing in New York, posing a growing challenge to the Hong Kong stock exchange.
8. On the other hand, Taiwan’s economic fundamentals, the central bank’s adoption of extraordinary monetary easing and the government’s fiscal policies have fueled continued rallies in the nation’s stock market since last year.
9. It might be too early to tell how long the consolidation trend might last, as a resurgent COVID-19 outbreak is coloring the global economic outlook, but some insight can be drawn from the stock market:
10. Taiwan’s GDP grew a larger-than-expected 8.16 percent in the first quarter, as exports and private investment remained healthy.
都是一堆很長的句子對不對？我們來看美國人寫的句子，也是一個主流媒體的 opinion 文。
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📌 美國案例：New York Times Opinion
1. I miss torturing Liz Cheney.
2. But it must be said that the petite blonde from Wyoming suddenly seems like a Valkyrie amid halflings.
3. She is willing to sacrifice her leadership post — and risk her political career — to continue calling out Donald Trump’s Big Lie.
4. She has decided that, if the price of her job is being as unctuous to Trump as Kevin McCarthy is, it isn’t worth it, because McCarthy is totally disgracing himself.
5. It has been a dizzying fall for the scion of one of the most powerful political families in the land, a conservative chip off the old block who was once talked about as a comer, someone who could be the first woman president.
6. How naïve I was to think that Republicans would be eager to change the channel after Trump cost them the Senate and the White House and unleashed a mob on them.
7. I thought the Donald would evaporate in a poof of orange smoke, ending a supremely screwed-up period of history.
8. But the loudest mouth is not shutting up.
9. And Republicans continue to listen, clinging to the idea that the dinosaur is the future.
10. “We can’t grow without him,” Lindsey Graham said.
📌 Note: 即使是比較長的句子，這位作者也會用標點符號拆散它：She is willing to sacrifice her leadership post — and risk her political career — to continue calling out Donald Trump’s Big Lie. 這就好比用句點一樣，讓我們讀起來有點停頓休息的時間。
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📌 注意到了嗎？
台灣人寫的英文，句子都偏長，而且長度都差不多。
美國人寫的就不一樣了：一個只有五個字的句子開頭，然後一堆稍微長一點的句子，然後再來一串短句。
你可能懷疑我故意挑選很極端了例子出來，而且幹嘛專門打台灣人呢？
所以想到這裡，我從我的書架上，隨便挑了兩本跟科技有關的書出來。左邊的，是美國人，矽谷知名投資人 Peter Thiel。右邊的是德國人，但注意了，是一個英文非常好的德國人。他不但是世界經濟論壇的創辦人，研究所也是在哈佛大學唸的。
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📌 兩本書 Introduction 是怎麼寫的？
Klaus Schwab (德國)：
Of the many diverse and fascinating challenges we face today, the most intense and important is how to understand and shape the new technology revolution, which entails nothing less than a transformation of humankind.
We are at the beginning of a revolution that is fundamentally changing the way we live, work, and relate to one another.
In its scale, scope and complexity, what I consider to be the fourth industrial revolution is unlike anything humankind has experienced before.
Peter Thiel (美國)：
Whenever I interview someone for a job, I like to ask this question: "What important truth do very few people agree with you on?"
The question sounds easy because it's straightforward.
Actually, it's very hard to answer.
It's intellectually difficult because the knowledge that everyone is taught in school is by definition agreed upon.
See the difference?
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周興哲《如果能幸福》（HBO Asia原創影集「戒指流浪記」片尾曲）小提琴版本
| Violin cover by Lin Tzu An of《Fortunate (HBO Asia Original Series "Adventure of the Ring" Theme Song)》by Eric Chou
人生是無數的選擇堆砌而成，我們做出選擇之後，都有個「如果」。
「如果」能更勇敢一點？又或是「如果」我不放棄？
所有的抉擇也都讓我們帶著這些遺憾，走向往後的人生。
我們承擔的遺憾都是活過的痕跡，這些痕跡不是為了提醒我們一直沈溺在過去，而是我們可以比自己以為的更好。當時的全心全意沒有浪費，因為僅有的一次，給了唯一的人給了當初的決定。如果是真的，必定值得；如果不是真的，也不代表決定錯了。
這些過去帶來必須承擔的遺憾，都是為了最後的那個決定做準備，所以即使站在各種人生的十字路口，也勇敢坦然不遺憾地做自己想做的，走往自己想要的方向吧：想哭的時候哭、想愛的時候就抱緊身邊的人或是直接說出口、想念已經不在身邊的人的話就寫下來對方會看到會知道的。
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Our life is about lots of choices. After we make a choice, we all have a condition, a what if. What if I could be more brave or what if I could be patient waiting for you.
These are all our own stories and the sorties are bringing us to the present, telling us we may be better than we supposed to be, instead of being stuck in the past.
It’s not waste of time loving you for I did love you with all my heart and I want to believe you loved me too even for a split second.
If I were to choose again, I would still connect with you, love you again and stuck with you asking if you can develop a vaccine against missing you just because you were the only holic I have. The world with you in it is vague, the only one truth would be I told you I love you at the moment, looking at you with the light in my eyes for you are everything I've been looking for and I'll wait for you. I gave my heart to the very thing I know would break it and I'd love to do it again, without question =]
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菲道爾《阿拉斯加海灣》小提琴版本 | Violin cover by Lin Tzu An of Gulf of Alaska by Firdhaus
今天的歌曲是一個非常溫柔的歌～～
大家知道阿拉斯加海灣在哪裡嗎？
在美國和加拿大之間的海域，海面呈現兩個顏色。因為海水密度關係，兩片海不能融為一體。
菲道爾在原歌曲中把這個比喻成某些愛情：儘管雙方如此相愛，最終卻無法在一起。
大家應該都了解這種面對愛情的無能為力吧？
不能回應我的心意、不能愛我不是你的錯，不是我愛你，你就一定要喜歡我。
所以希望你不要覺得內疚，只希望我的喜歡可以為你帶來一點什麼。
希望即使不能有個快樂結局，但不管遇到什麼挫折，在你可能對自己好失望的時候，可以想起我的喜歡，知道有個人如此深深地愛你：）
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Today’s cover goes to a very gentle song that went viral at the end of 2020.
Do you guys know where the Alaska Bay is?
In the waters between the United States and Canada and there are two colors of the sea. Because of the density of sea water, the two parts cannot be integrated. So it's used as a metaphor in the song, referring to the kind of love that two cannot have a happy ever after ending even they love each other.
I guess you guys can relate to this kind of love right?
So it would be my response to my loved one that it's not your fault even though you can't love me back. You don't necessarily have to love me like I do so please don't feel sorry because of this. You are forever my babe.
However awful things may happen to you and however depressed you may be, and when you feel like being disappointed at yourself, I hope you can remember you are loved and I love you.
That is the only one truth and you are the only holic I have =]
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