2013年3月27日 星期三

印尼話四招

1. Makasi = Thank you = Gracias
2. Silakan = You're welcome = De nada
3. Nama saya ... = My name is ... = Me llamo ...
3. Selamat pagi = Good morning = Buenos días

2013年3月18日 星期一

喜鵲的故事


變形記卷五 294-314

簡單說就是九姐妹找繆絲姐妹比賽唱歌,推出卡利歐佩出來應戰。女神獲勝,馬其頓九姊妹輸不起開始潑婦罵街亂罵一通。女神生氣,把她們全部變形成喜鵲,聒噪的長舌鳥,聲音惹人閒,偏偏愛開口找碴。



(中央社記者溫貴香台北19日電)總統率慶賀團到教廷準備的禮品有喜鵲瓷瓶,文化部長龍應台今天說,送喜鵲給教宗沒有不妥,善意不會被誤會。

總統馬英九率慶賀團到教廷準備的禮品中有喜鵲瓷瓶,但民進黨籍立委邱志偉等人質疑,教宗就職送象徵永浴愛河的禮物不適當,且在歐洲傳說中,喜鵲是不祥之兆。

龍應台上午列席立法院會前對於喜鵲是否代表不祥一事表示,在每個國家都有不同解釋,在某些國家如德國不是不祥,而是看到亮晶晶的東西就去偷,會說牠像個可愛的小偷。

她說,送禮的話,在台灣或中華文化有不同意義,送喜鵲給教宗沒有什麼不妥,反而藉這個機會告訴教宗,喜鵲在不同國家、不同文化有不同的解釋,不會有誤會,善意是不會被誤會。1020319



喜鵲很能代表馬總統的特質,這禮物送的極妙。


今天撥手筋已無昨日繃痛,但手腕旋轉角度堪慮,轉水瓶子無力,唯能右握緊瓶子左旋瓶子頭頂蓋。

2013年3月11日 星期一

進度: The 100 Best Books of All Time (2013.4.13)

TitleAuthorYearCountryLanguage
Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe1958NigeriaEnglish
Fairy talesHans Christian Andersen1835–37DenmarkDanish
The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri1265–1321ItalyItalian
Epic of GilgameshAnonymous18th – 17th century BCESumer and Akkadian EmpireAkkadian
Book of JobAnonymous6th – 4th century BCEAchaemenid EmpireHebrew
One Thousand and One NightsAnonymous700–1500India/Iran/Iraq/EgyptArabic
Njál's SagaAnonymous13th centuryIcelandOld Norse
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen1813United KingdomEnglish
Le Père GoriotHonoré de Balzac1835FranceFrench
MolloyMalone DiesThe Unnamable, a trilogySamuel Beckett1951–53Republic of IrelandFrench, English
The DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio1349–53RavennaItalian
FiccionesJorge Luis Borges1944–86ArgentinaSpanish
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1847United KingdomEnglish
The StrangerAlbert Camus1942AlgeriaFrench EmpireFrench
PoemsPaul Celan1952RomaniaFranceGerman
Journey to the End of the NightLouis-Ferdinand Céline1932FranceFrench
Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes1605 (part 1), 1615 (part 2)SpainSpanish
The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer14th centuryEnglandEnglish
StoriesAnton Chekhov1886RussiaRussian
NostromoJoseph Conrad1904United KingdomEnglish
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens1861United KingdomEnglish
Jacques the FatalistDenis Diderot1796FranceFrench
Berlin AlexanderplatzAlfred Döblin1929GermanyGerman
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky1866RussiaRussian
The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky1869RussiaRussian
The PossessedFyodor Dostoevsky1872RussiaRussian
The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky1880RussiaRussian
MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot1871United KingdomEnglish
Invisible ManRalph Ellison1952United StatesEnglish
MedeaEuripides431 BCEAthensClassical Greek
Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner1936United StatesEnglish
The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929United StatesEnglish
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert1857FranceFrench
Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert1869FranceFrench
Gypsy BalladsFederico García Lorca1928SpainSpanish
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez1967ColombiaSpanish
Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez1985ColombiaSpanish
FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1832Saxe-WeimarGerman
Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol1842RussiaRussian
The Tin DrumGünter Grass1959GermanyGerman
The Devil to Pay in the BacklandsJoão Guimarães Rosa1956BrazilPortuguese
HungerKnut Hamsun1890NorwayNorwegian
The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway1952United StatesEnglish
IliadHomer850–750 BCEPossibly SmyrnaClassical Greek
OdysseyHomer8th century BCEPossibly SmyrnaClassical Greek
A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen1879NorwayNorwegian
UlyssesJames Joyce1922Irish Free StateEnglish
StoriesFranz Kafka1924AustriaGerman
The TrialFranz Kafka1925AustriaGerman
The CastleFranz Kafka1926AustriaGerman
ShakuntalaKālidāsa1st century BCE – 4th century CEIndiaSanskrit
The Sound of the MountainYasunari Kawabata1954JapanJapanese
Zorba the GreekNikos Kazantzakis1946GreeceGreek
Sons and LoversD. H. Lawrence1913United KingdomEnglish
Independent PeopleHalldór Laxness1934–35IcelandIcelandic
PoemsGiacomo Leopardi1818ItalyItalian
The Golden NotebookDoris Lessing1962United KingdomEnglish
Pippi LongstockingAstrid Lindgren1945SwedenSwedish
A Madman's DiaryLu Xun1918ChinaChinese
Children of GebelawiNaguib Mahfouz1959EgyptArabic
BuddenbrooksThomas Mann1901GermanyGerman
The Magic MountainThomas Mann1924GermanyGerman
Moby-DickHerman Melville1851United StatesEnglish
EssaysMichel de Montaigne1595FranceFrench
HistoryElsa Morante1974ItalyItalian
BelovedToni Morrison1987United StatesEnglish
The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu11th centuryJapanJapanese
The Man Without QualitiesRobert Musil1930–32AustriaGerman
LolitaVladimir Nabokov1955Russia/United StatesEnglish
Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell1949United KingdomEnglish
MetamorphosesOvid1st century CERoman EmpireClassical Latin
The Book of DisquietFernando Pessoa1928PortugalPortuguese
TalesEdgar Allan Poe19th centuryUnited StatesEnglish
In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust1913–27FranceFrench
The Life of Gargantua and of PantagruelFrançois Rabelais1532–34FranceFrench
Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo1955MexicoSpanish
MasnaviRumi1258–73PersiaMongol EmpirePersian
Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie1981United Kingdom, IndiaEnglish
BostanSaadi1257PersiaMongol EmpirePersian
Season of Migration to the NorthTayeb Salih1966SudanArabic
BlindnessJosé Saramago1995PortugalPortuguese
HamletWilliam Shakespeare1603EnglandEnglish
King LearWilliam Shakespeare1608EnglandEnglish
OthelloWilliam Shakespeare1609EnglandEnglish
Oedipus the KingSophocles430 BCEAthensClassical Greek
The Red and the BlackStendhal1830FranceFrench
Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne1760EnglandEnglish
Confessions of ZenoItalo Svevo1923ItalyItalian
Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift1726IrelandEnglish
War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy1865–1869RussiaRussian
Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy1877RussiaRussian
The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy1886RussiaRussian
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1884United StatesEnglish
RamayanaValmiki3rd century BCE – 3rd century CEIndiaSanskrit
AeneidVirgil29–19 BCERoman EmpireClassical Latin
MahabharataVyasa4th century BCE – 4th century CEIndiaSanskrit
Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman1855United StatesEnglish
Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf1925United KingdomEnglish
To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf1927United KingdomEnglish
Memoirs of HadrianMarguerite Yourcenar1951FranceFrench