afflict, parable, Levitical, Parable of the Rich Man
很像是柯市長的作法Comfort the afflicted
然後修理有權有勢的人,例如台北市衝著財團,目前幾項大型公共建設的爭議Afflict the comfortable.
THE TV WATCH ‘ER’ Goes the Way of Nurses’ Caps
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
The final episodes of “ER” served up a parable of anxiety — not the viewers’ sense of loss, but the creators’ fears of oblivion.
parable noun[C] a short simple story which teaches or explains an idea, especially a moral or religious idea
Levitical
a.(lē̍*vĭt"ĭ*kal)
[L. Leviticus, Gr. Leyitiko`s.] 1. Of or pertaining to a Levite or the Levites. 2. Priestly. « Levitical questions.» Milton. 3. Of or pertaining to, or designating, the law contained in the book of Leviticus. Ayliffe. Levitical degrees, degrees of relationship named in Leviticus, within which marriage is forbidden.
Happily there are some who feel such Levitical passing-by to be, alas, by no means a permanent dismissal of the matter; that comment on where the world stands is very much the reverse of needless in these disordered years of our prematurely afflicted century: that amendment and not madness lies that way.
T. HARDY
"譯場（su）報告" * On Translating *
No. 20, 2008年 2月19日； 2008/1/28 創刊
HC問：這Levitical passing-by是什麼意思？
Happily there are some who feel such Levitical passing-by to be, alas, by no means a permanent dismissal of the matter; that comment on where the world stands is very much the reverse of needless in these disordered years of our prematurely afflicted century: that amendment and not madness lies that way. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/ltlr10h.htm
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" "What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?" He answered: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" "You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live." But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
In reply Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn in Jericho and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. 'Look after him,' he said, 'and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'
"Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?"
The expert in the law replied, "The one who had mercy on him." Jesus told him, "Go and do likewise."
Brook, Peter (彼得·布魯克1995). The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre. {敞開的門--談表演和戲劇 }，于東田譯，北京: 新星出版社，2007 The Open Door: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre 副標題翻譯成「談表演和戲劇」，似乎有點勉強。建議：「演出與劇場」
翻譯者的序（「好戲在後頭」）一開始就提出他對1988年翻譯本《空的空間》（The Empty Space，1968年）的糾正或重譯。不過，我認為他的翻譯過份抽象： Yet when we talk about theatre this is not quite what we mean. Red curtains, spotlights, blank verse, laughter, darkness, these are all confusedly superimposed in a messy image covered by one all-purpose word
afflict
əˈflɪkt/
verb
past tense: afflicted; past participle: afflicted
(of a problem or illness) cause pain or trouble to; affect adversely.
"his younger child was afflicted with a skin disease"
太平天國的聖經刪些"不倫"，譬如： Hong altered other passages to fit his own theological and moral teachings and enhance the moral authority of the scriptures for his Chinese audience. In the Taiping Bible, for instance, at Genesis 27:25 God's favored people did not drink wine. The daughters of Lot did not intoxicate him and have sexual relations with him in order to continue their family line, as in Genesis 38:16-26.
跟台北和北京的出版單位交出譯稿，鬆了口氣。有些微憂傷，二本書之一，我們幾個人，從1986-87年就開始弄了。1995年年底，我在品質學會辦一天的紀念戴明的研討會，天下文化的鄧編輯等2人參加，告訴我他們預備出版戴明博士的書。1997年出書時，我自己出版J. M. Juran的大作Managerial Breakthrough (管理三部曲)。換句話說，十來年了。......去年北京的出版社email說希望再出版，我答應，因為必須趁機整理更正確的版本。當時，太陽花革命正高潮，我幾乎無法弄完數萬字之多的"服務業"一章......弄完Introduction to OUT OF THE CRISIS and THE NEW ECONOMICS，希望寫篇譯後記，不料也很長：
這兩本譯作，可說是我們團隊的成績。文豪歌德曾說：「人的靈魂，就像被耕耘的田地。從異國取來種子，花時間來選擇、播種的園藝家，豈是容易的？」主譯者鍾漢清先生在此我謝謝諸位合譯的團隊隊友：
《轉危為安》的貢獻者：劉振老師、林有望、鄭志庚、蔡士魁、張華、甘永貴、鄧嘉玲、施純菁。徐歷昌，潘震澤老師指出原作的某段引文有錯。 《新經濟學》的貢獻者：戴久永(初版的譯者)、李明、鄧嘉玲、吳程遠。 修正版特別在多處地方請教兩位戴明學者：威廉‧謝爾肯巴赫(William W. Scherkenbach)先生 (著作《戴明修練I》（The Deming Route to Quality and Productivity—Road Maps and Roadlocks）和著作《戴明修練II》（The Deming’s Road to Continual Improvement）；2008年當「東海大學戴明學者講座」教授，幫我們辦3場演講----所有相關教材，請參考我社2008年的書：《台灣戴明圈》。總體而言，先生惠我良多…..），和邁克爾‧特威特(Michael Tveite) 博士。他倆的貢獻，在書中相關的地方都會有附注。
