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Perspective

發佈時間: 2020/11/18

Perspective

原香港基本法委員會主任喬曉陽,指香港人應停止從香港的角度(from a Hong Kong perspective)去理解《基本法》,而應從北京的角度去考慮,這樣才可以全面準確地理解和執行《基本法》。

名詞perspective主要有3個意思。首先,上文提到的perspective指思考問題的「觀點、角度」。例如,Qiao Xiaoyang suggested that Hongkongers can only understand the Basic Law accurately if we look at it from the Beijing's perspective.(喬曉陽提出,香港人只有從北京的角度看《基本法》,才能正確理解它。)

You need to look at the problem from a different perspective in order to find the solution.(你需要從不同的角度看問題,才能找到解決方案。)

Perspective也可以指「權衡輕重的能力、合理地評價」。例如,We need to step back and put things into perspective.(我們需要退後一步,恰當地估計情況。)Although the student enrolment dropped by 5% this year, but to put this into perspective, the eligible graduates dropped even more at 12%.(儘管今年的入學率下降了5%,但客觀地看,合資格的畢業生下降了12%。)

另外,perspective可以解「透視法」,to draw something in perspective,即是「用透視法畫某物」。

(本欄逢周三、五刊登)

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