生活是政治的，不是因為世界在意你的感受，而是因為這世界對你的所作所為有反應。我們在生活中做的每個微不足道的選擇都是一種投票，或多或少決定了我們未來能不能繼續舉行自由公平的選舉。在日常生活的政治中，我們的話語、姿態或選擇保持沉默都有其影響。
2021年8月13日星期五
明星效應
攝取低升糖指數(glycemic index, GI)的碳水化合物(carbohydrate)確實比較健康，吃低GI食物更可以預防糖尿病，所以一餐食兩三碗白飯，其實對身體有負面影響。
雖然低醣修身比起生酮飲食(ketogenic diet)、食藥減肥好得多。個人認為吃低GI carbohydrate便可，全面減醣最終會生酮。Ketogenic diet 事實上只適合用來處理癌症個案。
如果希望飽著減肥就有點不切實際，「減重一定要吃得飽！」只是流於口號，配合運動永遠是最有效。
筆者本身食量大，運動不太多，只是靠多吃含有豐富益生元(prebiotics)的食物，腸道生態平衡得好，想肥都難。
2021年8月8日星期日
類溫水煮蛙
「切香腸戰術」(salami tactics) 是一種蠶食鯨吞取得統治權的政戰技巧。
《暴政》
Salami tactics refers to a divide and conquer (攻克) approach, which aims to split up the opposition. The expression evokes the idea of slicing up one’s opposition in the same way as one might slice up a salami.
2021年8月2日星期一
the CATCHER in the RYE
Chapter 1
lousy: miserably poor or inferior
crap: feces
apiece: for each one
touchy: acutely sensitive or irritable
goddam: damn
madman: a man who is or acts as if insane
crumby: crummy: very poor or inferior
bucks: dollars
dough: money
terrific: extraordinary
D.B. Caulfield is the older brother of Holden and Phoebe.
hotshot: a person who is conspicuously talented or successful
polo: a game played by teams of players on horseback using mallets with long flexible handles to drive a wooden ball through goalposts
bash: to strike violently
grandstand: a usually roofed stand for spectators at a racecourse or stadium
scrawny: exceptionally thin and slight or meager in body or size
giggle: to laugh with repeated short catches of the breath
strike up: to cause to begin
falsies: a breast-shaped usually fabric or rubber cup used to pad a brassiere —usually plural
manure: material that fertilizes land
phony: not genuine or real
slob: a slovenly or boorish person
slovenly: untidy especially in personal appearance
boorish: resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person
fencing: the art or practice of attack and defense with the foil, épée, or saber
épée: a fencing or dueling sword having a bowl-shaped guard and a rigid blade of triangular section with no cutting edge that tapers to a sharp point blunted for fencing
meet: the act of assembling for a hunt or for competitive sports
ostracize: to exclude from a group by common consent
good-by: goodbye
grippe: influenza
flunk: to fail especially in an examination or course
teat: nipple
crook: a person who engages in fraudulent or criminal practices
chuck: throw
stick: to push or thrust so as or as if to pierce
dorm: dormitory
Spencer is Holden's history teacher at Pencey. He's the first adult Holden talks to in the book, and Holden seems to hold both him in high regard.
Online Dictionary used: https://www.merriam-webster.com
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