To keep coronavirus out, Canada’s smallest province kept the rest of the country away

To keep coronavirus out, Canada’s smallest province kept the rest of the country away

為了不讓新冠病毒進入 加拿大最小省分與全國其他地方保持距離

【摘要2020.7.24.自由】◎張沛元

In the winter months, when icy conditions keep most people from traveling by sea, there are only two ways to enter Prince Edward Island: by plane or an eight-mile bridge.

在（因海面）冰凍以致大多數人無法搭船（上島）的冬季月份，只有兩種方式可以進入愛德華王子島：搭機或（開車走）8英里長的橋。

When the novel coronavirus started spreading around the world early this year, Canada’s smallest province, off the country’s eastern coast north of Nova Scotia, found itself at a geographical advantage. The island’s remoteness, paired with an aggressive isolation campaign that restricted nonessential travel and enforced two-week quarantines for those arriving in the province, paid dividends.

當今年稍早新冠病毒開始蔓延全球之際，這個位於加拿大東岸外海、新斯科舍省以北的加國最小省分，發現自己享有地理上的優勢。該島的偏僻性，再加上限制非必要旅遊以及蒞臨該省者強制檢疫2週的激進隔離活動，獲致良好效果。

By late April, as death counts were ticking upward in other parts of Canada and soaring in the United States, the province had confirmed just 27 cases of the virus — all of them linked to off-island travel. None of those patients was hospitalized, and no one died.

到了4月底，當加拿大其他地區的死亡人數向上攀升，美國的死亡人數也一飛沖天之際，該省只有27起新冠病毒確診病例─所有病例都與島外差旅有關。這些患者中無人住院，也無人死亡。

新聞辭典

keep someone/something out：慣用語，避免某人接觸某事或進入某地。例句：Keep your dogs out of my backyard!（管好你的狗，別跑到我家後院！）

keep someone/something away：片語動詞，（使）不靠近，（使）遠離。例句：It’s difficult to keep your kids away from smartphones.（讓孩子遠離手機並非易事。）

pay dividends：慣用語，（將來）有好處，得到好結果。dividend，名詞，紅利，股息。

The Myth Of TALOS And The Origin Of AI

人工智慧的原型－塔羅斯

【摘要2020.7.24.蘋果】

The ancient Greeks were a people with many myths, legends, and gods.
One of those myths is of Talos, a giant bronze man who was made by Hephaestus, the god of invention and blacksmithing. Talos’main job was to defend Hephaestus’island, throwing huge rocks at anyone who tried to invade. It sounds like some magical myth, but today, there are those who argue that this is where our modern idea of AI originated from.

古希臘人是一個擁有許多神話、傳說以及神祇的民族。這些神話的其中之一是關於塔羅斯這個由發明與工匠之神──赫菲斯托斯──所創造出的巨型銅人。塔羅斯的主要職掌是捍衛赫菲斯托斯的島嶼，他會對任何試圖入侵者投擲巨岩。這聽起來或許像某種奇幻神話，但現今就有人主張這是現代人工智慧概念的起源。

生活必備字詞

blacksmithing n.打鐵；鍛造
defend vt.保衛，防禦
originate vi.發源，起源
It’s generally believed that the disease originated in birds.