~牢籠清單~

「用善意擁抱世上難免的惡意，我們都做得到。」隨時給像朱利安這樣的孩子付出善意，他們需要的是永不放棄他們的生命貴人，哪怕只是一句看似普通的打招呼或「你還好吧?」都不可輕忽，他們一定能感受到這微小的關懷力量，每個人多付出一些關心，自己也會覺得快樂，正所謂「施比受更有福」，皆是發自內心真誠，無關利益得失，每一個心痛故事的盡頭，都有溫暖、希望跟救贖，無人為獨立於世！

我告訴你，過去是一桶灰

 We could read Carl Sandburg: ‘I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, / so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. / Keep moving and forget the post mortems.’” Eileen smiled broadly at the line—it could save a person’s life. “From what you’ve told me of your father, it seems somehow fitting.”

 我們可以讀到卡爾·桑德伯格：‘我告訴你，過去是一桶灰，/所以不要活在昨天，也不要只為明天，而要活在此時此地。 / 繼續前進，忘記屍檢。'”艾琳對著這條線笑得很開心——這可以挽救一個人的生命。 “從你告訴我的關於你父親的事情來看，這似乎有點合適。”

悲慘名單

So the sad list goes on, and most of us could add other candidates: continuing gender discrimination, racism, corruption, biased and unjust legal systems, failed states, homelessness, unemployment, caste-ism and other forms of socially approved methods of social exclusion, domestic violence, rape and sexual crime, and indeed crime in general and its ever newer forms including cyber-crime, trans-border human trafficking, drug trafficking, illegal (or legal) trade in small arms, the rise of intolerant forms of religious fundamentalism and no doubt yet other “social problems” both local and global.

持續的性別歧視、種族主義、腐敗、有偏見和不公正的法律制度、失敗的國家、無家可歸、失業、種姓制度和其他形式的社會認可的社會排斥方法、家庭暴力、強姦和性犯罪，以及一般犯罪及其不斷更新的形式，包括網絡犯罪、跨境人口販運、毒品販運、非法（或合法）小武器貿易、不容忍形式的宗教的興起原教旨主義，無疑還有其他地方性和全球性的“社會問題”。

土著觀點實際（而不只是名義上）納入具有許多積極影響。

There is a danger of sustainability becoming the last term in a series reading colonialism—neo-colonialism—development—globaliza tion—sustainability, and inheriting the fundamental problems of its predecessors—paternalism, top-down imposed solutions, lack of democracy and consultation, a one-size-sets-all mentality, and resulting injustices, including some people or groups “benefitting” from sustainability while others are excluded or cannot access it to the same degree. The actual (rather than simply nominal) incorporation of indigenous perspectives has many positive implications which include modifying global governance through engagement with local peoples in such areas as information collection and dissemination, policy development, implementation and monitoring, providing models of climate change mitigation and adaptation through methods such as traditional forestry, learning from local health systems and bringing local knowledge and “Western” science into dialogue with each other (McLean et al. 2012). But behind all these practical measures is the more philosophical question of the possible multiplicity of ideas of sustainability.

可持續性有可能成為一系列閱讀殖民主義——新殖民主義——發展——全球化——可持續性，並繼承其前人的根本問題——家長式、自上而下強加的解決方案、缺乏民主的系列的最後一個術語的危險和協商，一種一刀切心態，以及由此產生的不公正，包括一些人或團體“受益於”可持續性，而另一些人或團體則被排除在外或無法獲得同等程度的可持續性。將土著觀點實際（而不只是名義上）納入具有許多積極影響，包括通過在信息收集和傳播、政策制定、實施和監測等領域與當地人民接觸來改變全球治理，提供減緩和適應氣候變化的模型通過傳統林業等方法，向當地衛生系統學習，並將當地知識和“西方”科學引入彼此的對話中（McLean etĠal. 2012）。但在所有這些實際措施的背後，是關於可持續性理念可能多樣性的更具哲學意義的問題。

最肯定必須改變的一件事就是軍隊

One thing that would most certainly have to change, if be not abolished altogether and that is the military. Collectively the world’s armed forces are the source of vast levels of pollution, constantly move large numbers of people around the globe, invest huge amounts of money in killing technologies, engage in arms trading, occupy whole areas with military bases, leave dangerous and hard to dispose of trash (nuclear weapons, chemicals, explosives) all over the environment and do enormous damage to plant, animal and marine life, quite apart from using up huge budgets that could rather better be spent on essentials such as health care and poverty alleviation.

如果不能完全廢除，最肯定必須改變的一件事就是軍隊。總的來說，世界軍隊是大量污染的源頭，不斷在全球範圍內轉移大量人口，投入巨額資金進行殺戮技術，從事軍火交易，用軍事基地佔領整個地區，留下危險和難以處理整個環境中的垃圾（核武器、化學製品、爆炸物）並對植物、動物和海洋生物造成巨大破壞，除了花費巨額預算之外，這些預算本可以更好地用於醫療保健和貧困等必需品緩解。

The choice of word of 2021

The choice of word of 2021 was a seemingly obvious one for the US publisher, which said searches for “vaccine” on its website increased by 601% compared with last year…The change from the pre-pandemic days of 2019 is even more stark, said the dictionary maker, with searches for the word soaring by 1,048%.（The Guardian）

（2021年單字對於美國這家出版社而言非常明顯，網站上「疫苗」一詞的搜索量相較去年增加601%……根據字典商表示，與疫情前的2019年相比更是顯著，該單字的搜索量飆升1048%。）

Prisley turned over in bed

 Prisley turned over in bed, pulling the sheets over her shoulders. She and Abigail were discussing Ryan Harbinger, who sat next to Prisley in English so he could squeeze her thigh under the desk, and copy what she wrote about the books he never read. For the past two weeks he’d been pursuing Prisley in PE class, pulling her into the willow trees to make out while they were supposed to be running the mile at Bayfront Park. 

Prisley在床上翻了個身，把床單拉到肩膀上。她和阿比蓋爾正在討論瑞恩·哈賓格，瑞恩·哈賓格用英語坐在Prisley旁邊，這樣他就可以把她的大腿壓在桌子底下，抄下她寫的關於他從未讀過的書的內容。在過去的兩周里，他一直在體育課上追求Prisley，把她拉到柳樹上看，而他們本來應該在海灣公園跑一英里。