{"id":1917,"date":"2010-07-20T09:29:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/duan_ping_qiang_20100720\/"},"modified":"2010-07-20T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:29:54","slug":"duan_ping_qiang_20100720","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2010\/07\/20\/duan_ping_qiang_20100720\/","title":{"rendered":"Short review: I high\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend the envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist super\u00adman Pota\u00adto Boy\u2019s one-year hap\u00adpy life diary"},"content":{"rendered":"

   
\nI could spend a whole day writ\u00ading about this book\u00adlet with\u00adout get\u00adting tired. How\u00adev\u00ader, I only intend\u00aded to write a short review, so I wrote the fol\u00adlow\u00ading para\u00adgraph. How\u00adev\u00ader, after fin\u00adish\u00ading it, I real\u00adized that this para\u00adgraph did\u00adn\u2019t make it clear enough, so I had to add some notes. Of course, if you\u2019re busy, you don\u2019t need to read the notes at all, but if you reprint it, please include the notes; it\u2019s not tir\u00ading any\u00adway. O(\u2229_\u2229)O~
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\n\u3010Short Review (Green Unan\u00adno\u00adtat\u00aded Ver\u00adsion)\u3011
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\nBreak\u00ading News! Envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist Super\u00adman Pota\u00adto Boy makes his grand appear\u00adance! He\u2019s not Super\u00adman, but he wants to save the Earth! 
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\nI high\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend this diary, writ\u00adten by the out\u00adstand\u00ading envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist Pota\u00adto Boy, not just because it\u2019s a per\u00adfect exam\u00adple of a \u201cfun diary,\u201d not just because it\u2019s a handy dai\u00adly guide for \u201cgreen peo\u00adple\u201d (a nick\u00adname for envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adists), and not just because it offers so many exam\u00adples of inter\u00adest\u00ading expos\u00adi\u00adto\u00adry writ\u00ading that young peo\u00adple rarely encounter\u2026 but main\u00adly because it\u2019s so fun and hilar\u00adi\u00adous! Dur\u00ading the days I was review\u00ading and trans\u00adlat\u00ading this book, it made my whole fam\u00adi\u00adly laugh so hard that our stom\u00adachs hurt. O(\u2229_\u2229)O Haha~ <\/strong><\/p>\n

   
\nAs one of the com\u00adplic\u00adit con\u00adtrib\u00adu\u00adtors to the Chi\u00adnese trans\u00adla\u00adtion of those jokes, I want to warn read\u00aders: most of the hilar\u00adi\u00adous moments in this book are pret\u00adty low-brow (like the boogers and farts), but a few are quite fun\u00adny, quin\u00adtes\u00adsen\u00adtial British dry humor craft\u00aded by high\u00adly intel\u00adli\u00adgent indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals. How\u00adev\u00ader, I believe that intel\u00adli\u00adgent read\u00aders, with care\u00adful con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion, will appre\u00adci\u00adate their depth, either smil\u00ading know\u00ading\u00adly or burst\u00ading out in laugh\u00adter. (Argenti\u00adna)
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\n[Short review (detailed ver\u00adsion: also very green)]
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\nExtra, Extra! Envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal Super\u00adman Pota\u00adto Boy\u2460<\/sup>He\u2019s not Super\u00adman, but he wants to save the Earth!\u2461<\/sup>
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\nI high\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend this diary writ\u00adten by the out\u00adstand\u00ading envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist Pota\u00adto Boy.\u2462<\/sup>, not just because it is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly suit\u00adable as a tem\u00adplate for \u201cfun diary\u201c\u2463<\/sup>, not only because it is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly suit\u00adable as a dai\u00adly life hand\u00adbook for \u201cgreen mol\u00ade\u00adcules\u201d (a nick\u00adname for green envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adists)\u2464<\/sup>, not because it pro\u00advides many inter\u00adest\u00ading explana\u00adto\u00adry essays that are rarely seen by young peo\u00adple.\u2465<\/sup>\u2026 Main\u00adly because it is so fun and fun\u00adny! Dur\u00ading the days of review\u00ading and trans\u00adlat\u00ading this book\u2466<\/sup>, it made our fam\u00adi\u00adly of three laugh so hard that our stom\u00adachs hurt O(\u2229_\u2229)O haha~ <\/p>\n

   
\nAs one of the con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adtors who trans\u00adlat\u00aded those jokes into Chi\u00adnese\u2467<\/sup>I would like to remind read\u00aders that most of the hilar\u00adi\u00adous jokes in the book are not fun\u00adny at all (such as boogers, farts, etc.)\u2468<\/sup>, but there are also some very fun\u00adny parts, which are typ\u00adi\u00adcal British dry humor made by peo\u00adple with high IQ.\u2469<\/sup>But I believe that as long as smart read\u00aders chew it care\u00adful\u00adly, they will be able to taste the fla\u00advor of it, or smile know\u00ading\u00adly, or laugh out loud.
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\n    \u2460
\nEnvi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal Super\u00adman Pota\u00adto Boy: \u201cEnvi\u00adron\u00adment Super\u00adman\u201d is actu\u00adal\u00adly a title added by the edi\u00adtor of the Chi\u00adnese edi\u00adtion. The pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist\u2019s Eng\u00adlish name is sim\u00adply Spud\u2014a translit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of \u201c\u65af\u5df4\u8fbe\u201d (Spar\u00adta). In the book, it clear\u00adly has a slangy qual\u00adi\u00adty, rough\u00adly mean\u00ading \u201cpota\u00adto\u201d (the book also explic\u00adit\u00adly and implic\u00adit\u00adly hints at the rela\u00adtion\u00adship between pota\u00adto and the pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist), but also con\u00adnot\u00ading \u201cidiot.\u201d In short, it\u2019s a name that inspires end\u00adless cre\u00adative jokes. In the book, \u201cI\u201d (Pota\u00adto Boy) often makes jokes, a blend of silli\u00adness and clev\u00ader\u00adness that per\u00adfect\u00adly match\u00ades the name\u2019s oth\u00ader mean\u00ading.
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\n    \u2461
\nHe\u2019s not Super\u00adman, but he wants to save the Earth! This quote comes from the back cov\u00ader. It means that once you fin\u00adish read\u00ading this book, you should under\u00adstand that even if you\u2019re not Super\u00adman or any\u00adthing like that, you still have a chance to save the Earth. Even \u201cStu\u00adpid Pota\u00adto Boy\u201d under\u00adstands this! How dare you say you don\u2019t under\u00adstand?
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\n    \u2462
\nThe Diary of the Out\u00adstand\u00ading Envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist, Pota\u00adto Boy: A seri\u00adous reminder: this book is pure\u00adly fic\u00adtion\u00adal. The \u201cOut\u00adstand\u00ading Envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist\u201d is fic\u00adtion\u00adal, as is \u201cPota\u00adto Boy,\u201d and nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly, his diary is fic\u00adtion\u00adal as well. So who wrote it? The author, of course. Who is the author? Giles Thax\u00adton, a Brit. This guy orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly stud\u00adied sci\u00adence and engi\u00adneer\u00ading at a pres\u00adti\u00adgious British uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. After grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion, he first worked as a researcher at a high-tech research insti\u00adtute, then became a car\u00adpen\u00adter, then a gui\u00adtarist in a rock band. He dis\u00adcov\u00adered his true pas\u00adsion was pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphy, so he opened a pho\u00adto stu\u00addio. And\u2014really, what era is this?\u2014he spe\u00adcial\u00adizes in black and white pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphy! Look, this diary writ\u00adten by such an eccen\u00adtric guy. It\u2019s said that he\u2019s a true \u201cgreen guy,\u201d liv\u00ading on an old wood\u00aden boat by the riv\u00ader. In short, when it comes to mad\u00adness, Pota\u00adto Boy is a very real\u00adis\u00adtic por\u00adtray\u00adal of the author.
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\n    \u2463
\nThis book is indeed par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly suit\u00adable as a mod\u00adel for a \u201cfun diary\u201d. Here is an excerpt for shar\u00ading:
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\nSat\u00adur\u00adday, Jan\u00adu\u00adary 1
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\nToday is Jan\u00adu\u00adary 1st, the first day of the year, much like last year. And come to think of it, it\u2019s pret\u00adty much the same as the year before. It\u2019s also the day for mak\u00ading New Year\u2019s res\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtions. Last year, my plan was to grow my ears big\u00adger, but it did\u00adn\u2019t seem to work out. This year, I\u2019m deter\u00admined to do some\u00adthing more mean\u00ading\u00adful and prac\u00adti\u00adcal. I\u2019ve come up with a bunch of ideas, like:<\/p>\n

   
\nLearn to swing your arms and fly.
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\nGo straight through the wall (there is no door in the wall).
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\nLearn to trav\u00adel through time and space.
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\nAnd the most inter\u00adest\u00ading thing is that this diary is illus\u00adtrat\u00aded with both text and pic\u00adtures, and the illus\u00adtra\u00adtions are equal\u00adly won\u00adder\u00adful. Of course, this is thanks to the painter Nigel Baines who illus\u00adtrat\u00aded the book. From the illus\u00adtra\u00adtions, we can also see that this painter is crazy enough!
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\n    \u2464
\nA Handy Guide to Dai\u00adly Liv\u00ading for \u201cGreens\u201d (a nick\u00adname for envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adists): When many peo\u00adple think of \u201cgreens,\u201d they imag\u00adine eccen\u00adtric indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals who seem out of place. They seem either over\u00adly wealthy or incred\u00adi\u00adbly broke, with a pletho\u00adra of \u201crules\u201d that make life dif\u00adfi\u00adcult for nor\u00admal peo\u00adple. Even if they tru\u00adly lived a \u201cgreen life,\u201d it would undoubt\u00aded\u00adly be a strug\u00adgle\u2026 To be hon\u00adest, before read\u00ading this book, I had some\u00adwhat sim\u00adi\u00adlar notions of \u201cgreens.\u201d But this book tru\u00adly opened my eyes. It turns out that green liv\u00ading isn\u2019t so daunt\u00ading. It can be roman\u00adtic and enjoy\u00adable (per\u00adhaps the green\u00ader, the more roman\u00adtic it is) and incred\u00adi\u00adbly sim\u00adple and easy to fol\u00adlow, pro\u00advid\u00aded we retain a healthy dose of child\u00adlike play\u00adful\u00adness, a sense of humor, and, above all, the abil\u00adi\u00adty to laugh at our\u00adselves, just like the adorable Pota\u00adto Boy. This book may have been writ\u00adten as a sim\u00adple pam\u00adphlet, like an envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal sci\u00adence hand\u00adbook, but I was amazed by the author\u2019s mas\u00adter\u00adful lit\u00ader\u00adary skills. The gen\u00aduine emo\u00adtion he and the artist imbued in this work also deeply moved me, and I\u2019m deter\u00admined to try to emu\u00adlate those \u201cgreen peo\u00adple\u201d! Of course, I\u2019ll take it one step at a time; you can\u2019t eat a hot bean bun in a hur\u00adry. This book is undoubt\u00aded\u00adly the best intro\u00adduc\u00adtion to green liv\u00ading.
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\n    \u2465
\nAn inter\u00adest\u00ading expos\u00adi\u00adto\u00adry essay sam\u00adple rarely seen by young peo\u00adple: We come across many expos\u00adi\u00adto\u00adry texts in our dai\u00adly lives, but how many of them can be called inter\u00adest\u00ading and inspire young peo\u00adple to emu\u00adlate them? Well, please read the fol\u00adlow\u00ading pas\u00adsage (it would be even more inter\u00adest\u00ading if it were accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by an image):
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\nWell, Eddie was so impressed by my green plan that he pro\u00adposed my first envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal chal\u00adlenge.
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\nSearch\u00ading for the source of the heat\u00ading leak
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\nI have to find every heat\u00ading leak in my house. I can do it. Easy. Look, I have a sophis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded plan:
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\n1. I found a very light rib\u00adbon, about half the length of my arm, and tied it to one end of a pen\u00adcil.
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\n2. Now, I will take it to every cor\u00adner of the house to see if it swings\u2026 If it swings, it means there is air flow in that place, which means there is a gap in that place, which means I have to block the gap to avoid wast\u00ading heat ener\u00adgy.<\/p>\n

   
\n3. The recon\u00adnais\u00adsance con\u00adtin\u00adues\u2026 The rib\u00adbon is wig\u00adgling pret\u00adty hard now. Ouch! Clos\u00ading the kitchen win\u00addow is bet\u00adter, but there\u2019s still a draft. Is there anoth\u00ader heat\u00ading leak some\u00adwhere else?
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\nEddie says ded\u00adi\u00adcat\u00aded green peo\u00adple like me also need to make sure the heat does\u00adn\u2019t leak from under door pan\u00adels or around win\u00addow edges, where it\u2019s often wast\u00aded.
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\nThis kind of expos\u00adi\u00adto\u00adry writ\u00ading clev\u00ader\u00adly incor\u00adpo\u00adrates sto\u00adry\u00adtelling and often throws in a few sub\u00adtle quips, yet it still achieves the most cru\u00adcial aspect of expo\u00adsi\u00adtion: explain\u00ading things clear\u00adly so that read\u00aders can ful\u00adly fol\u00adlow the instruc\u00adtions. This is actu\u00adal\u00adly quite dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to accom\u00adplish. If you don\u2019t believe me, go through all the instruc\u00adtion man\u00adu\u00adals in your house and see how many of them still explain things clear\u00adly and are under\u00adstand\u00adable.
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\n    \u2466
\nDur\u00ading the time I was review\u00ading the trans\u00adla\u00adtion of this book, I reviewed it based on some\u00adone else\u2019s ini\u00adtial trans\u00adla\u00adtion. Due to the urgent dead\u00adline, I only had two weeks. It was an extreme\u00adly ardu\u00adous but also incred\u00adi\u00adbly joy\u00adful time. Every night, I read the fin\u00adished man\u00adu\u00adscript to my daugh\u00adter, and she burst into laugh\u00adter. Lat\u00ader, my wife joined in the fun. Laugh\u00adter is so con\u00adta\u00adgious, we often laughed until our stom\u00adachs ached. They also helped me a lot with the revi\u00adsions and pol\u00adish\u00ading. So when my daugh\u00adter saw the new book, she was so excit\u00aded that she told the oth\u00ader chil\u00addren around her, \u201cThis is the book I helped trans\u00adlate!\u201d While I was proud, I also heard a hint of some\u00adthing else: it seemed she want\u00aded a share of the roy\u00adal\u00adties, too. O(\u2229_\u2229)O Haha~
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\n    \u2467
\nAs one of the accom\u00adplices in trans\u00adlat\u00ading those jokes into Chi\u00adnese: The jokes in this book were main\u00adly cre\u00adat\u00aded by the orig\u00adi\u00adnal author, and the illus\u00adtra\u00adtor also cre\u00adat\u00aded a lot. The group of peo\u00adple who par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpat\u00aded in the intro\u00adduc\u00adtion, trans\u00adla\u00adtion, and edit\u00ading are the \u201caccom\u00adplices\u201d in trans\u00adlat\u00ading them into Chi\u00adnese, and I am hon\u00adored to be one of them. Through\u00adout the whole process, my main task is to ensure that the orig\u00adi\u00adnal mean\u00ading is con\u00adveyed basi\u00adcal\u00adly accu\u00adrate\u00adly while retain\u00ading the humor in the orig\u00adi\u00adnal work as much as pos\u00adsi\u00adble. This is a very hap\u00adpy job, but it is indeed hard and tir\u00ading. Per\u00adhaps the great\u00adest reward pos\u00adsi\u00adble is the unre\u00adstrained and hearty laugh\u00adter of chil\u00addren when they read it. If you col\u00adlect such laugh\u00adter, please don\u2019t be stingy and share some with me^_^
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\n    \u2468
\nMost of the hilar\u00adi\u00adous jokes in the book are not fun\u00adny at all (such as boogers, farts, etc.): For exam\u00adple, page P68\u2014\u2014
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\nUse\u00adless tips:
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\nEddie said if you fart\u00aded non-stop for sev\u00aden years you\u2019d gen\u00ader\u00adate as much ener\u00adgy as an atom bomb. I thought he was talk\u00ading bull\u00adshit.
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\n    \u2469
\nTyp\u00adi\u00adcal British dry humor cre\u00adat\u00aded by high\u00adly intel\u00adli\u00adgent peo\u00adple: such as pages P26-27\u2014\u2014
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\nSat\u00adur\u00adday, Feb\u00adru\u00adary 19
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\nEddie and I are dig\u00adging a pond in our gar\u00adden. The idea is to attract more wildlife to the gar\u00adden. Snails and drag\u00adon\u00adflies will love it. Frogs and toads will croak there. They have a lot in com\u00admon with us. I\u2019ll also keep fish in it\u2014lots of fish. When we\u2019re done, this place will be teem\u00ading with life.<\/p>\n

   
\nThat\u2019s how Eddie and I worked on it all after\u00adnoon. We dug and talked, talked and dug. He did the talk\u00ading, I did the dig\u00adging.
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\nNow we just wait\u00aded for the rain. Eddie and I were both impressed by our hand\u00adi\u00adwork. He said if we had dug a big\u00adger hole, we could keep half and Eddie would put the oth\u00ader half in his gar\u00adden.
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\nBy the way, this book actu\u00adal\u00adly has two pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnists: me (Pota\u00adto) and my clos\u00adest friend, Eddie. Both have dis\u00adtinct per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adties, and the author, with just a few strokes, allows us to tru\u00adly under\u00adstand them. While both lit\u00adtle guys share many sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adties with frogs and toads (espe\u00adcial\u00adly in their croak\u00ading), one is a bit goofy, prone to impul\u00adsive action, while the oth\u00ader is a clas\u00adsic \u201cbrain eater,\u201d skilled at think\u00ading and talk\u00ading, but also prone to lazi\u00adness when it comes to action. So, on a major project like dig\u00adging a pond, one guy does the talk\u00ading while the oth\u00ader does the digging\u2014they\u2019re a per\u00adfect match!
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\nThe A\u2011League was held in Bei\u00adjing on July 19, 2010.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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