首先聲明,我沒有看到新聞畫面,
酥餅的BLOG:馬英九:「居民的表情都很Cynical」
馬英九*落*英文CYNICAL批評台灣人-選前選後兩個臉--
我不知道馬先生講這句話的情境是什麼?上下文是什麼?
- unwilling to believe that people have good, honest, or sincere reasons for doing something
- not caring that something might not be morally right, might hurt someone etc, when you are trying to get something for yourself
| Cynical: |
- captious, peevish
- having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic: as a: contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives
cynical men who say that democracy cannot be honest and efficient — F. D. Roosevelt> b: based on or reflecting a belief that human conduct is motivated primarily by self-interest cynical ploy to cheat customers>
| Cynical: |
我想90%的人看完上面的解釋,大概是墜入更深的五里霧中了,
當然,要了解這個字,得要先了解一下cynic這個字的原義。C
有學字首字根的朋友就知道,字首cyn-就是原來希臘文「狗」(
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這個學派的立意其實很良善,
另外一個我覺得更經典的故事,是Diogenes重病時,
當然,從希臘時代一直到羅馬時代,
| “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of anything but value of nothing.” ~ Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, novelist and dramatist “A cynic can chill and disheart with a single word.” “The opposite of creativity is cynicism.” “Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.” |
當然,也不乏有對犬儒主義正面的肯定:
| “The cynics are right nine times out of ten.” ~ Henry Louis Mencken, American journalist and essayist “Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth” “Cynicism is the only form that the base souls approach honesty.” |
但不管名家們怎麼肯定,你去問十個西方人,大概有9.9個不會喜