老爺子說，最近荒廢了厚，都沒在看紐時。(嗯…那這位爺兒，是說您又有多精進啊?)

是囉，近來生活腳步有一些被攪亂，忙得暈頭轉向卻不知所然，體力好像也變差：真是對不起瑜珈老師!

其實每天還是有打開app看看有沒有新鮮事兒。印象深刻的是經濟學人報導有關北韓金正恩最近的武嚇行為。其中有幾個用法覺得真是傳神，值得背下來。

The questions are what to make of all this, and how to respond. Neither is easy. The White House has tried to play down the aggression, talking of a “disconnect between rhetoric and action”, and some parts are pure bluster.

嘴上說說跟實際去做是兩碼子事，有些部分就純粹是恐嚇囉。

In return for aid, oil or respect, North Korea would agree to discussions over dismantling its nuclear-weapons programme. The process was often a charade, but it kept the North engaged and it probably helped slow the development of nuclear weapons, as with the agreement to mothball the Yongbyon reactor in 2007.

Charade是指一種「比手劃腳」的遊戲。真的挺傳神，西方世界不知道北韓究竟要什麼，大家就瞎猜一番。但至少老爸還在的時候，這還能讓北韓保持在遊戲規則中，也維持核武的發展慢一些。

Perhaps he gets a thrill from orchestrating the chaos—as if he were playing a video game. Or, most worrying, perhaps he is out of his depth and therefore more prone to miscalculation.

金正恩據說喜歡玩電動，所以可能他覺得在精心安排這些混亂時能得到一種刺激感。

取材自經濟學人, April 6, 2013