(前篇提要) 從誠品搬回來八本書~ 其一原因，是為了換kubrick熊 =p 陰差陽錯，錢事花了，卻只換了兩隻小熊。
(書單內容)
信義收穫：
雜誌三本
1. 《musik》 December
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/magazine/mag_retail.php?item=R030015002
被"大師的告別音樂會"與霍洛維茲所吸引，本來打算在書店裡把想看的部分看完，結果，只是看了一點點卻連之前幾個月的份也想搬回家 =p
2. 《pen 》(日文文藝設計雜誌) 1 December
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/magazine/mag_retail.php?item=J030013294
pen 是我很喜歡的雜誌，range 很大，令我認識很多東西，這一期的"攝影"，更是深深吸引著我，剛剛為找出那個 link，發現 2009 年一月是一號跟十五號合併的，要去旭日找找看有沒有預購 =p
3. 暫時找不出 link 來 :p (後再詳寫)
日本翻譯小說兩本 (後再詳寫)
為什麼會選擇日文翻譯小說而不是其他暢銷書呢? 說起來真是諷刺，唸翻譯的我非常討厭閱讀翻譯作品，因為我總覺得原文是最原汁原味的。能看懂原文的人，為什麼不看原文呢?
選擇日文翻譯小說還有一個原因，隨着我慢慢進步的日文，我開始閱讀日文書(雖然都是些青少年讀本或圖文書)，也開始找中譯本來參考 :p 難度比較高的一些小說，我都是先看中文，再看日文，再查字典的，我覺得這是最有效訓練"閱讀理解"的方法，就像小時候的"中英雙語版" ^_^
當時很想買一本日文的文型辭典，但沒有 (因為信義的"每層樓結賬"其實很麻煩而且有一點讓人懊惱)，臨走的時候發現了一本很可愛的書，即時給放到購物籃中:
《Debussy 您說是印象派音樂? ─ 德布西的室內樂與管弦樂》
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010421976
Debussy 是我轉跟黃老師學鋼琴後才真正認識的音樂家，也至此成了我的最愛。以前只是在音樂課中老師有提過，不過我的老師肯定不喜愛他或對他沒有研究，對他的講解就是書中的"印象派音樂"，沒有其他的附註。從前陳老師要我練的都很奇怪，考試要彈三首曲風不一樣的歌，別人練巴哈，我是韓德爾；每個彈琴的人都熟練的莫札特，我是換老師後(也就是準備 diploma時)才"開始"練起來；別人練蕭邦，她要我練舒曼；致令我"彈琴"的感覺很"獨特"，黃老師於是要我好好認識 Debussy，把 Debussy 成為我的看家本領，就像李雲迪的蕭邦一樣 (這樣說好像有點那個，不過就這個意思)~ 好好認識一個音樂家，我的方法就要把人家的事跡連家事通通查說來，這樣才能感受寫歌者的心情吧! 所以，拜給書名囉! =)
敦南收穫：
1. 《海上教堂》
http://www.eslite.com/product.aspx?pgid=1001116041818725
2. 《陪妳到最後》
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=0010413238
我本來是想看他另外一本書 The Widower, 但想想先看這本也不錯，而且，從譯者簡介來看，應該是直接從荷蘭文翻譯成中文的，有點期待。
3. 日文文型辭典 (暫時找不出 link 來)
4. 《Shantaram》
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/booksfile.php?item=F010365737
我承認我很膚淺，人家 2005 年已出版的書，我到今年，因為 Johnny Depp 要拍戲才知道，才會有"去買原文來看"的衝動 :p
5. 暫時找不出 link 來
以上就是我的聖誕書單了! ^_^
第一本開始的是《陪你到最後》- 已完成 80%，剛開始看的時候，寫到"病徵"時，我真的好想去看醫生，因為之前的醫生沒有告訴我，腺體發炎可引發 cancer. (是引發嗎? 反正就是本來只是發炎，嚴重的話卻會是 cancer，這是我所理解的) 至現在 80%，讀起來沒有推薦說的那麼感動，或許是因為我一邊看一邊恐慌，有時也會"對號入座"一番 :p 也許這一本書本來就比較適合"身邊都是健康的人"的人閱讀吧! 不過能夠那麼坦誠開放的相處，真的很好，令我更明白我家的"坦誠開放"是源於那一點點的荷蘭血統 =) [真的喔! 我的太婆是荷蘭人喔!]
不過下一次 The Widower, 我想看英文的，好像比較好"翻譯"，這個中譯本讀起來怪怪的，極度歐化 =p
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Monday, July 23, 2007
愛上台灣的歌唱比賽
(moved from elsewhere)
如題~
他們的水平，是會令人「上癮」的。不像近幾年的所謂新秀，讓人忍不住要轉台。
在台灣熱到爆點的《超級星光大道》第一季完滿落幕，說真的，有點失落~ 第二季的，由於還在初段，還沒有很想很想看的衝動~
我本來一直有看，後來就只看個別同學的《校園歌喉戰》也到尾聲囉~
當初在台灣偶爾看到《校園歌喉戰》，很佩服他們的認真，搶拍很少，音準只是沒上的穩都被扣分或出局，覺得評分很嚴格，回來後一直在看。
還沒看過《星光幫》前，看他人氣抄的實在太離譜，好奇心推動下看了一下，四個字：「欲罷不能」。
水準真的很高，高到我想叫那個所謂唱的還不錯，最近不斷在「control control」的新生代女歌手 hk born abc 回去好好練習，更不用說其他的。
他們的 cd，我真的訂了，我想我會換鈴聲了。雖然我現在的也是很不錯的蔡旻佑，但我還是要換。:p
對了，我的 mp3 list 已經很久沒有廣東歌了，最近的一首是張敬軒。香港歌手，只剩下陳奕迅跟方大同。
大家除了看 American Idol 那些 11 歲的超級女孩外，也可以看看這些台灣的~
大陸的「快樂男聲」跟「好男兒」這一季都好像有「好聲音」喔~
多聽一點好聲音，多聽一點不一樣的曲風，是耳朵的享受喔！
如題~
他們的水平，是會令人「上癮」的。不像近幾年的所謂新秀，讓人忍不住要轉台。
在台灣熱到爆點的《超級星光大道》第一季完滿落幕，說真的，有點失落~ 第二季的，由於還在初段，還沒有很想很想看的衝動~
我本來一直有看，後來就只看個別同學的《校園歌喉戰》也到尾聲囉~
當初在台灣偶爾看到《校園歌喉戰》，很佩服他們的認真，搶拍很少，音準只是沒上的穩都被扣分或出局，覺得評分很嚴格，回來後一直在看。
還沒看過《星光幫》前，看他人氣抄的實在太離譜，好奇心推動下看了一下，四個字：「欲罷不能」。
水準真的很高，高到我想叫那個所謂唱的還不錯，最近不斷在「control control」的新生代女歌手 hk born abc 回去好好練習，更不用說其他的。
他們的 cd，我真的訂了，我想我會換鈴聲了。雖然我現在的也是很不錯的蔡旻佑，但我還是要換。:p
對了，我的 mp3 list 已經很久沒有廣東歌了，最近的一首是張敬軒。香港歌手，只剩下陳奕迅跟方大同。
大家除了看 American Idol 那些 11 歲的超級女孩外，也可以看看這些台灣的~
大陸的「快樂男聲」跟「好男兒」這一季都好像有「好聲音」喔~
多聽一點好聲音，多聽一點不一樣的曲風，是耳朵的享受喔！
Friday, April 20, 2007
Mozart's Letters (about the Translation)
(moved here)
last nite we had a presentation on "Mozart's Letters"...
personally i think it's quite hard... not only 'coz the so-called English original is already a Translated Text... but also the languages Mozart used and the word-play he had... it might be easier to translate from German (and also some Italian and French as i know... ) to English but it would be totally different if putting it in the Chinese context.
one excerpt my classmate showed is as follows:
"So if you want to send a reply to me from that town of Augsburg yonder, you see, then write at once, the sooner the better, so that I may be sure to receive your letter, or else if I'm gone I'll have the bad luck, instead of a letter to get some muck. Muck! -Muck! - Ah, muck! Oh, sweet word! Muck! Chuck! That too 'is fine. Muck, chuck!-muck!-suck-oh, charmante! muck, suck! That's what I like! Muck, chuck and suck! Chuck muck and suck muck"
Attention was paid to the three words: muck, chuck and suck...
The Chinese version reads: 糞蛆、垃圾、污泥... which was criticized as almost 'total failure'... first of all... the rhyme's lost... the meaning's not the same... and so and so... but this raised another question... does the English convey the original German meaning? or the English itself already altered "something" to make the... say... rhyme and filthy context vivid in English? Prof. Tung said we had no way to check the German and to compare it... and since German and English are from the same root... the words, she supposed, the choice of English words... such as the rhyme and the meanings should be able to reflect the German 'spirit'... but it wouold be too difficult for translating them into Chinese... can's note: Total Agree! Prof. Tung added that the Chinese translation itself did not seem right... though they're all talking about dirty things but the degree or nature of that dirty things may not be comparable... and this differs from the English version...
As I'm too interested in this, I checked the German Original!!!! It reads:
wenn sie mir also wolln antworten, aus der stadt Augsburg dorten, so schreiben sie mir baldt, damit ich den brief erhalt, sonst wenn ich etwa schon bin weck, bekomme ich statt eincn brief einen dreck. dreck! - - dreck! - o dreck! - o süsses wort! - dreck! - schmeck! - auch schön! - dreck, schmeck! - dreck! - leck - o charmante! - dreck, leck! - das freüet mich! - dreck, schmeck und leck! - schmeck dreck, und leck dreck!
Brilliant!!!! The three words are: dreck, schmeck, leck... The first and last one are correct but not the middle one.
Dreck, a noun, usu. meaning is mud or muckiness.Leck, a noun, meaning 'leakage' or 'seepage' BUT it is also a slang or colloquial bad language. It acts as a VERB in 'Leck mich am Arsch!' meaning 'Kiss my ass'(or similar meaning). This 'bad' phrase once appeared in Mozart's song and thus I think 'Leck' here should be a verb. That is, personally I think the word 'suck' the translator used is referring to its 'verb' meaning instead of noun, as appears in the Chinese translation.For the middle word, it spells "schmeck" which is wrong. Possible answers may be "schneck", an Austrian langauge meaning slug; or "schmeckt", singular verb form for "to taste" (so far as I know, it is related to food! e.g. The tea tastes good). So I think it is possible that the word 'chuck' the translator used may also refer to the verb form instead of the noun form (as my classmate showed the class).
In fact the last "sentence" gives us clue that schmeck and leck (or chuck and suck) are probably verbs based on basic grammar... if two nouns go together... the first one is describing / giving further explanation to the second one... e.g. Music Class = a class of music... thus the suggestion of "verb forms" follows the context more reasonably than the suggestion of "noun forms" as translated in the Chinese version.This may be another Translation Issue. The German original here only helps us to (maybe) understand more or get a closer meaning to the author. But simply from the English version, we can indeed discover the 'verb' and 'noun' issues especially when having a deeper look at the author or the author's other works (issues like little formal education, rude, relationship with father, family, etc.).The Chinese translation here failed to convey the meaning and taste of the source text not just because the choice of words are awkward as we discussed but the translator also failed to taste the real bit of Mozart.
Try thinking the three words again in "Muck (noun), Chuck (verb! or replace it with the German original [let's take it as 'taste']), Suck (verb!)" and probably you can better understand what Mozart's playing with his cousin, the one whom he might have once felt in love with.
Very nice indeed... naughty but witty...
last nite we had a presentation on "Mozart's Letters"...
personally i think it's quite hard... not only 'coz the so-called English original is already a Translated Text... but also the languages Mozart used and the word-play he had... it might be easier to translate from German (and also some Italian and French as i know... ) to English but it would be totally different if putting it in the Chinese context.
one excerpt my classmate showed is as follows:
"So if you want to send a reply to me from that town of Augsburg yonder, you see, then write at once, the sooner the better, so that I may be sure to receive your letter, or else if I'm gone I'll have the bad luck, instead of a letter to get some muck. Muck! -Muck! - Ah, muck! Oh, sweet word! Muck! Chuck! That too 'is fine. Muck, chuck!-muck!-suck-oh, charmante! muck, suck! That's what I like! Muck, chuck and suck! Chuck muck and suck muck"
Attention was paid to the three words: muck, chuck and suck...
The Chinese version reads: 糞蛆、垃圾、污泥... which was criticized as almost 'total failure'... first of all... the rhyme's lost... the meaning's not the same... and so and so... but this raised another question... does the English convey the original German meaning? or the English itself already altered "something" to make the... say... rhyme and filthy context vivid in English? Prof. Tung said we had no way to check the German and to compare it... and since German and English are from the same root... the words, she supposed, the choice of English words... such as the rhyme and the meanings should be able to reflect the German 'spirit'... but it wouold be too difficult for translating them into Chinese... can's note: Total Agree! Prof. Tung added that the Chinese translation itself did not seem right... though they're all talking about dirty things but the degree or nature of that dirty things may not be comparable... and this differs from the English version...
As I'm too interested in this, I checked the German Original!!!! It reads:
wenn sie mir also wolln antworten, aus der stadt Augsburg dorten, so schreiben sie mir baldt, damit ich den brief erhalt, sonst wenn ich etwa schon bin weck, bekomme ich statt eincn brief einen dreck. dreck! - - dreck! - o dreck! - o süsses wort! - dreck! - schmeck! - auch schön! - dreck, schmeck! - dreck! - leck - o charmante! - dreck, leck! - das freüet mich! - dreck, schmeck und leck! - schmeck dreck, und leck dreck!
Brilliant!!!! The three words are: dreck, schmeck, leck... The first and last one are correct but not the middle one.
Dreck, a noun, usu. meaning is mud or muckiness.Leck, a noun, meaning 'leakage' or 'seepage' BUT it is also a slang or colloquial bad language. It acts as a VERB in 'Leck mich am Arsch!' meaning 'Kiss my ass'(or similar meaning). This 'bad' phrase once appeared in Mozart's song and thus I think 'Leck' here should be a verb. That is, personally I think the word 'suck' the translator used is referring to its 'verb' meaning instead of noun, as appears in the Chinese translation.For the middle word, it spells "schmeck" which is wrong. Possible answers may be "schneck", an Austrian langauge meaning slug; or "schmeckt", singular verb form for "to taste" (so far as I know, it is related to food! e.g. The tea tastes good). So I think it is possible that the word 'chuck' the translator used may also refer to the verb form instead of the noun form (as my classmate showed the class).
In fact the last "sentence" gives us clue that schmeck and leck (or chuck and suck) are probably verbs based on basic grammar... if two nouns go together... the first one is describing / giving further explanation to the second one... e.g. Music Class = a class of music... thus the suggestion of "verb forms" follows the context more reasonably than the suggestion of "noun forms" as translated in the Chinese version.This may be another Translation Issue. The German original here only helps us to (maybe) understand more or get a closer meaning to the author. But simply from the English version, we can indeed discover the 'verb' and 'noun' issues especially when having a deeper look at the author or the author's other works (issues like little formal education, rude, relationship with father, family, etc.).The Chinese translation here failed to convey the meaning and taste of the source text not just because the choice of words are awkward as we discussed but the translator also failed to taste the real bit of Mozart.
Try thinking the three words again in "Muck (noun), Chuck (verb! or replace it with the German original [let's take it as 'taste']), Suck (verb!)" and probably you can better understand what Mozart's playing with his cousin, the one whom he might have once felt in love with.
Very nice indeed... naughty but witty...
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