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高克毅《恍如昨日》；喬志高《言猶在耳》、《聽其言也》、《總而言之》

喬治志高《言猶在耳》-美語錄第一集-九歌出版社，2000
喬志高《聽其言也》-美語錄第二集-九歌出版社，2001

喬志高《總而言之》-美語錄第三集-九歌出版社，2002 美語錄（三）總而言之(改版為：美語錄(三)自言自語(紀念版))：喬志高《自言自語》-美語錄第4集-九歌出版社，2008
知名作家白先勇追憶與喬志高因《台北人》英譯本相識、合作的感人故事
 夏志清教授稱喬志高為「多才多藝的美國通」，他在美語錄系列中，用機智、幽默的方式妙解日常生活、食衣住行各類英語的正確用法與由來


喬志高《言猶在耳》、《聽其言也》、《總而言之》是談美語的好作品，每書都有索引，很方便查閱。缺點是《言猶在耳》封面將喬志高誤寫為喬治高。另外，這三本書都提到美國紐約時報的專欄作者William SAFIRE，《言猶在耳》的索引卻未收錄。


ohn F. Kennedy

American University Commencement Address

delivered 10 June 1963

(Note: this is but a segment of President Kennedy's important address the whole of which can be found online athttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkamericanuniversityaddress.html The President was speaking during the cold war about the conditions for peace between the (then) superpowers. In particular he announced discussions on a nuclear test ban treaty. Still, reading his words some 50 years later, we realize how they transcend the times, especially when he reminds us prophetically that "we all inhabit this small planet." Only later when men looked back at the earth from the moon did mankind truly realize it's isolation, fragility, and shared responsibility.)

"For we are both devoting massive sums of money to weapons that could be better d"evoted to combat ignorance, poverty, and disease. We are both caught up in a vicious and dangerous cycle, with suspicion on one side breeding suspicion on the other, and new weapons begetting counter-weapons. In short, both the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its allies, have a mutually deep interest in a just and genuine peace and in halting the arms race. Agreements to this end are in the interests of the Soviet Union as well as ours. And even the most hostile nations can be relied upon to accept and keep those treaty obligations, and only those treaty obligations, which are in their own interest.

So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal."
make the world safe for diversity (將整個世界弄得使不同的制度可以安全共存。)初讀之下有點冗餘的翻譯，不過這是考慮上下文的。



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「（何況）片名的第一要素是招徠顧客。」（高克毅（筆名喬志高）《恍如昨日》（香港：天地圖書，2003，頁151）[這篇1979年記他高中生的”從影生涯”……]

這本《恍如昨日：喬志高自選集》內文計492頁，只收50年代兩篇Jack London之譯作：「亞陳別傳」（頁173-90）、「支那哥」(頁191-208)。

「亞陳別傳」(Chun Ah Chun by Jack London)收入高克毅（筆名喬志高）《恍如昨日：喬志高自選集》（香港：天地圖書，2003，頁173-90）。我們可以觀摩一下末段之部分翻譯：

In his palace, surrounded by all dear delights of the Orient, Ah Chun smokes his placid pipe and listens to the turmoil overseas. By each mail steamer, in faultless English, typewritten on an American machine, a letter goes from Macao to Honolulu, in which, by admirable texts and precepts, Ah Chun advises his family to live in unity and harmony. As for himself, he is out of it all, and well content. He has won to peace and repose. At times he chuckles and rubs his hands, and his slant little black eyes twinkle merrily at the thought of the funny world. For out of all his living and philosophizing, that remains to him--the conviction that it is a very funny world.


那一邊遠隔重洋，亞陳安然高坐宮殿式的別墅裏，周圍盡是他心愛的東方文物，抽著旱煙桿，富有閒情逸趣，隨時傾聽海外傳來一片片喧擾而靜觀其變。……
他一生掙扎，已經達到目標 – 老來享點清福。有時候他想想也忍俊不禁，兩手搓搓，一對小眼珠閃閃發光，想想這個世界也真好笑。不錯，在他畢生經驗所得的智慧中，他最終領悟到的一點 – 就是「造化弄人」。


《恍如昨日》收翻譯 Jack London 的 三和宵夜記 Midnight at the Three Harmony
文末交待：…..你食完粥，走下樓來，齒頰之間還留著雞肉、芫荽的餘香，肚子裡裝滿了滾熱而滋養的湯汁。那時候你才可以說是天時、地利、人和三者兼得……

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記憶小波浪
奇怪，想起舊金山……
想起大甲鎮的三和企業、小姑姑去打工……
鎮瀾宮前的炸芫荽…..。【說文解字：瀾，大波為瀾。如：力挽狂瀾、波瀾壯闊。孟子˙盡心上：觀水有術，必觀其瀾。趙岐˙注：瀾，水中大波也。】【大甲鎮瀾宮】 解釋 位於大甲鎮。是本省供祀媽祖的重要寺廟之一。

校友、學長大家好，

近幾天，讀了阮桃園老師的信，說到台灣教育部某單位的一些掌控與營私之弊，這可能只是台灣積弱的原因之一：所有冠"國立"的組織，都免不了人事"私了"。

我對於Chin S Yang和陳敏 (第一封) 對董事會的強烈批評和"夢想"，都不同意。批評是很容易的，我們台灣的校友，近5年，為此已多次公開表態。不過這次董事會碰到它幾可致命的打擊，他們有點軟弱，又沒想到有"教育部公文是法律"這招。

請大家注意，近幾次的董事會決議，都是開除湯教授的。當它的決議完全法律失效的話 (可能到2016年底才定案，我推估)，也表示它該自行解散。

用我回陳鳳山教授的信增份量：

陳教授
謝謝您的信。您幾年前得獎回母校、系演講，我查些資料，肯定您是到飛利浦實習的學生。今天成就如此，真令人以您為榮。
由於此校友mailing list 內容很亂，我不見得認真讀。我是擁護董事會的---這像個半失能的父母，還是你的父母，那些口說可以將董事會改造成所謂"21世紀世界級董事會"的校友，可能對於"組織"的了解不足。
下次回台灣，肯定要一聚、一醉。
敬祝
平安