關於 in twofold ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

【 英文履歷卡關？用這些動詞大加分！】
年後轉職英文履歷這樣寫！
學更多必勝技巧 👉 https://bit.ly/3eeGPjI
履歷多半是「過去的事蹟」，
所以記得動詞要用「過去式」喔！

❶ 有領導經驗可以這樣說...
✔️ I organized several interdepartmental meetings in my previous position.
我組織過數場跨部門會議。
✔️ I coordinated all the events in my previous company's marketing campaigns.
我協調承辦了去年行銷活動中的所有事項。
✔️ I headed the project team.
我擔任過專案小組的組長。
－
❷ 有創立經驗可以這樣說...
✔️ I launched the company's first welfare committee.
我成立了公司第一屆的福委會。
✔️ I established a study circle with my colleagues.
我發起了和同事們的讀書會。
✔️ I founded a clothing brand years ago.
我在幾年前創立了一個服飾品牌。
－
❸ 想展現成就可以這樣說...
✔️ I increased customers by 30% in one month.
我讓顧客數在一個月內增長 30%。
✔️ I achieved a twofold revenue growth.
我達到翻倍的業績成長。
✔️ I boosted the company’s website visits by 20%.
我為公司提升了 20% 的網頁瀏覽量。

「寒流」英文怎麼說?

1. cold wave
2. cold snap
3. cold spell
4. cold surge
5. cold front
6. Korean current

到底哪一個才是正確的?

★★★★★★★★★★★★

1. cold wave 寒流；寒潮 ❄️

In meteorology, a cold wave (known in some regions as a cold snap or cold spell) is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by a cooling of the air. Specifically, as used by the U.S. National Weather Service, a rapid fall in temperature within 24 hours to temperatures requiring substantially increased protection to agriculture, industry, commerce, and social activities. Therefore, the criterion for a cold wave is twofold: the rate of temperature fall, and the minimum to which it falls. The latter depends upon region and time of year.

寒流是一種天氣現象，特徵是空氣會冷卻。具體來說，如美國國家氣象局所述，溫度在24小時內迅速下降到致使必須大幅提高對農業，工業，商業和社會活動的保護。因此，寒流的定義標準是雙重的：溫度下降的速度和下降的最低溫度；下降的最低溫度則取決於地區和一年中的時間。

＊一般而言，寒潮是指一高氣壓在高緯生成，冷高壓向低緯侵襲，最後出海變性的冷空氣。在寒潮侵襲期間，冷空氣引起成當地氣溫驟降，地面氣壓驟升，有時更引起強風，大浪。

Sources:
https://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Cold_wave
https://terms.naer.edu.tw/detail/2746908/
http://bit.ly/34UmGdk

★★★★★★★★★★★★

2. cold snap 乍寒，驟冷 ❄️

a (sudden) short period of cold weather

臨時、短暫的寒冷天氣

Sources:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cold-snap
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/cold-snap

★★★★★★★★★★★★

3. cold spell 寒流 ❄️

a period of several days or weeks when the weather is much colder than usual

天氣比平常還要冷，並且持續幾天或幾週

Sources:
https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/cold-spell
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20spell

★★★★★★★★★★★★

4. cold surge 寒潮 ❄️

In meteorology, a cold surge refers to an abrupt temperature drop (e.g., relatively colder weather than a previous day).

突然的溫度下降（例如，比前一天寒冷）

Sources:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241061273
http://terms.naer.edu.tw/detail/1215768/?index=736

*cold surge 的使用頻率和領域: http://bit.ly/2L3dADZ; added after a suggestion in the comments

★★★★★★★★★★★★

5. cold front 冷鋒 ❄️

the weather condition in which a moving mass of cold air pushes into a mass of warm air resulting in a fall in temperature

A cold front is the leading edge of a cooler mass of air at ground level that replaces a warmer mass of air and lies within a pronounced surface trough of low pressure.

冷鋒指的是正在移動的冷氣團主動向暖氣團推進，並取代暖氣團原有位置所形成的鋒，導致溫度下降。作為地面上較冷空氣團的前沿，它取代了較熱的空氣團並位於明顯的低壓槽。

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_front
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cold-front

★★★★★★★★★★★★

上述1-4全是「寒流」可能的翻譯方式 🙂

1-4 are all possible translations of 寒流, or you can just say “I’m freezing my ass off” if you want to express how cold it is.

★★★★★★★★★★★★

How would you use cold wave/snap/spell/surge in an actual sentence?

要如何在實際句子中使用「寒流」相關詞彙呢？

1. A cold wave could sweep through the East Coast late next week.

下週稍晚寒流可能會席捲東岸。

—USA Today (今日美國)

2. Britain is braced for a big chill as a short sharp cold snap heads our way.

面對短暫而突然的寒流，英國已經做好未來天氣寒冷的準備。

—The Sun (太陽報)

3. Britain is expected to enjoy an unseasonably warm weekend as tropical air blows in from the Atlantic after a prolonged cold spell.

由於大西洋從大西洋吹來的空氣，在長期寒流之後，英國預計將度過一個異常溫暖的周末。

—The Sunday Times (星期日泰晤士報)

4. Taiwan's first cold surge of the winter season sent temperatures plummeting across the island Wednesday.

台灣首次寒流發威，週三全島氣溫驟降。

—Focus Taiwan (中央通訊社)

★★★★★★★★★★★★

加分題: 那「韓流」英文怎麼說? ❄️

生活美語: https://bit.ly/2H42k8T

小編快報
《柏林脈動》（The Berlin Pulse) 今天出刊了。這是德國一年一度的外交及國際關係專刊。作者群包括學者、智庫專家、政府官員。

這一期談歐洲問題的作者有波蘭外長、Moldova 總理、德國國防部長等等等。

今年《脈動》特別做了中國專題，作者有五位，分別是：
中國的全國人大外事委員會副主任委員傅瑩、日本眾議會議員Minora Kiuchi、巴黎的中國問題專家Francois Godement、曾任澳洲駐華大使，現任外交及貿易秘書長的Frances Adamson，以及台灣的龍應台。

德國編輯在文末放了一個德國的民意調查圖表，提問是：「面對中國，你認為德國應該更強力保護自己的政治利益，即使犧牲經濟利益？」
答案：贊成 76%
反對 19%

小編把龍應台文章翻譯成中文，跟讀者分享。英文原文附在後面。如果嫌我翻譯得不好，那那那，那表示你英文很好，你就看英文吧......
——————————————————————
兩千三百萬人在獨木舟上
——為什麼歐洲應該關切台灣的未來

反對黨公布2020總統候選人名單的那一天，我在台北和知識圈的朋友們午餐。那悲觀的，用問句來表達自己的悲觀，譬如，「你覺得台灣還有多少年?」那樂觀的，用黑色幽默來表達樂觀，譬如，「感謝老天。香港讓他們太忙了，沒時間管台灣。」

跟德國一樣，台灣對中國大陸和香港的貿易順差，在2018年是831億美元。百分之四十一的對外貿易針對中國，中國大陸市場對台灣的重要不言而喻。然而，隨著近年來台灣海峽兩岸的關係緊張，反對黨(國民黨) 憂慮市場的優勢無法持續，而執政黨(民進黨) 則選擇強化選民對北京的不信任來抵制中國的影響力。執政黨最近提出的國安新法可能將任何被認定為為中國宣傳者入罪。

和歐洲一樣，台灣人對中國的感受也是複雜的。 當中國代表的是活躍的經濟機會時，很多台灣人就容易所謂「親中」，當中國代表的是壓迫和可能的入侵時，很多台灣人就是所謂的「反中」。問題是，中國兩者兼備。後果就是，台灣內部的分歧遠遠超過了僅只是政治和經濟的層面。

如果你知道台灣是如何一路走來的，你會覺得它今天變成一個民主社會真是一個不得了的成就。沒有革命，一黨獨裁四十年的國民黨，不管你說它是自願還是被迫，放下了政權，分享權力。沒有流血，昔日牢裡的政治犯變成今日的立法者和政治領袖。1987年解嚴以後，政權的交替基本上公平而有序地進行了三十年。

台灣安靜地進行了三十年的民主，時間幾乎和它的國際孤立一樣長。美國不承認台灣的國家地位，但是，就如同當年對於德國，美國也扮演了安全守護者的角色。令人不安的是，在美國宣布要把軍售台灣常態化的同時，中國也宣布，它在台灣海峽及其領空，要把軍艦和戰機的演習常態化。

所以台灣民主的威脅其實是雙重的。比較明顯的是中國的威脅，這個威脅，往往超出台灣本身的控制能力。一個不那麼明顯的威脅，卻是內部自製的。台灣的政治人物和政黨熱切拿這個威脅做為政治資本，刺激集體恐懼來強化部落式的愛國主義。這種操作的成功，對台灣的民主制度和機構本身，是個真實的危險。

國際上那些純粹為了攻擊中國而故意把台灣捧在手心讚美的人，其實讓我坐立不安。一代又一代的台灣人為民主付出了代價，很大的代價，而得到今天的成果。這個成果，太珍貴了，不可以變成別人或別國為了自己的利益而拿來玩弄的籌碼或棋子。

德國的歷史是特殊的。德國的人民親身目睹了，如果不戒慎恐懼地去維護，一個開放合理的社會制度是如何容易地瓦解，一夜之間可以被獨裁取代。經歷了二戰，又擺脫了共產黨的歷史爭取到自由，德國可能比很多其他國家更容易理解台灣人的困境和追求。道德勇氣的來源往往是歷史的痛苦。身為歐盟的重要成員，德國有責任為世界的和平做出最大的努力，發揮最大的影響力。

但是，歐洲憑什麼一定要關心台灣呢?

首先，如果沒有台灣模式，全世界大概就都得接受一種說法，就是，儒家文化和民主制度是無法相容的，而所謂「中國模式」就是唯一邏輯、不可避免的現代中國。台灣的存在證明了一件事：未必如此。

第二，台灣本身的努力值得世界的尊敬。沒錯，如果中國是一艘航空母艦，那麼台灣只不過是一葉孤零零的獨木舟。可是在這個獨木舟上有兩千三百萬人正在追求一種有自由、有尊嚴的生活方式。如果台灣是歐盟的一個成員，就人口論，台灣就是二十八個成員國(英國脫歐後二十七國)中第七大國，比波蘭稍小，但比荷蘭和比利時大。以經濟購買力來看，台灣更是名列全球第二十二。所以，歐洲可以想像剝奪波蘭人或者荷蘭人對生活方式和政治體制的選擇權利嗎?

23 Million People on a Canoe
—Why Europe should care about Taiwan’s future

Lung Yingtai

On the day when the opposition party announced its presidential candidate for the 2020 election, I was sitting at a lunch table in Taipei listening to my intellectual friends uttering their concerns about the future of Taiwan. The pessimists phrased their pessimism in the form of questions such as “How many years do you think Taiwan has left?” The optimists expressed their optimism with dark humour, “Thank God they will be too busy with Hong Kong and the US for a while.”

Like Germany, Taiwan operates a trade surplus with mainland China and Hong Kong, amounting to $83.1 billion in 2018. With 41% of Taiwan’s exports going to China, Taipei’s economy depends on trade with the mainland. However, given the increasing tension across the Taiwan Strait, the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) in particular has been worrying whether Taiwan will be able to sustain these figures. The ruling Democratic Progressive Party, on the other hand, is capitalizing on voters’ intense distrust of Beijing, stepping up measures to “contain” China’s influence. Taipei recently drafted a national security law that would make it a punishable offense to spread “political propaganda” for China.

As in Europe, Taiwanese feel highly ambivalent about mainland China: When China signifies economic opportunities, most Taiwanese are 23 Million People on a Canoe Why Europe should care about Taiwan’s future “pro-China”; when China represents oppression and potential invasion, most Taiwanese are “anti-China”. The problem is that China resembles both. The result is a deep division among Taiwanese extending far beyond the political and economic spheres.

Given the circumstances under which Taiwan emerged and evolved, its evolution into an authentic democracy represents an extraordinary achievement. It was without a revolution that the KMT, which had ruled Taiwan for more than 40 years, put an end to martial law and, whether convinced or compelled to act, opened the country’s political system to sharing power. Without bloodshed, dissidents who had once sat in jails became legislators and political leaders. Since the lifting of martial law 1987, power has changed hands fairly and orderly, following the results of each election.

Taiwan has been a quiet democracy for more than thirty years, nearly as long as the four decades during which it has been isolated by the international community. The US does not formally recognize Taiwan but, as with Germany, acts as the country’s security guarantor. While Washington has indicated that arms sales to Taiwan will become more of a routine, China has devised a routine of its own by holding long-range combat drills and ordering its fighter jets to cross the maritime line.

However, the threat to Taiwanese democracy is twofold. The obvious one comes from China, and to a large extent lies beyond Taipei’s control. The less obvious threat is home-made, as the looming China threat tempts domestic politicians to mobilize the population’s collective fear to foment a tribal nationalism. Their success would pose a real danger to Taiwan’s democratic institutions.

Those who applaud Taiwanese democracy for the sole purpose of criticizing China make me nervous. Generations of Taiwanese fought and ultimately achieved a democracy – it is simply too precious for other people’s agendas, internal or external.

Germany has a unique history: its people have experienced first-hand how easily democratic institutions may fall apart when not meticulously guarded. Having received democracy as a gift following World War II and struggled to regain their freedom from Communist rule, Germans are in a unique position to understand both the predicament as well as the aspirations of the Taiwanese. Moral courage often comes from past sufferings. As a leading EU member state, Germany has a responsibility to maximize its own efforts as well as to influence others’ efforts for world peace.

But why should the world care about the future of Taiwan? First of all, save the Taiwan model, the world might have to accept the claim that democracy and Confucianism are incompatible, and that a communist China presents the only logical and inevitable path to modernity. Secondly, Taiwan deserves respect on its own merits. True, if China were an aircraft carrier, Taiwan would be a lone canoe. But standing on this canoe are 23 million people aspiring for a life with liberty and dignity. If it were an EU member, Taiwan would be the 7th largest of the Union’s 28 member-states (27 after Brexit), smaller than Poland but larger than the Netherlands or Belgium, with a developed economy ranking 22nd in the world by purchasing power parity. Do we really want to return to a world in which it is imaginable that countries such as Poland or the Netherlands should be deprived of their autonomy to determine their own way of life and political system?

The Berlin Pulse 2019
龍應台專文：https://www.koerber-stiftung.de/fileadmin/user_upload/koerber-stiftung/redaktion/the-berlin-pulse/pdf/2019/3_Koerber_TheBerlinPulse_YingTai.pdf
全本：https://www.koerber-stiftung.de/fileadmin/user_upload/koerber-stiftung/redaktion/the-berlin-pulse/pdf/2019/TheBerlinPulse_2019_FINAL.pdf