《中英對照讀新聞》No fishing in the subway: tongue-in-cheek vacation ads banned from New York transit地鐵不准釣魚：紐約運輸系統禁刊不可當真的度假廣告

◎張沛元

Crammed into subway cars with hundreds of other commuters during the morning rush, New Yorkers have cultivated all kinds of fantasies about what they would rather be doing _ but acting on them is another matter.

與通勤族在早上交通尖峰時刻擠進地鐵車廂的紐約客，已培養出各式各樣關於他們現在寧可去做些什麼的奇想——不過，真正去實踐這些奇想卻是另外一回事。

Officials are axing advertisements that playfully urge subway riders to pretend they're on vacation _ showing cartoon figures fly fishing on the tracks and lounging across subway seats.

官員正取消那些開玩笑地呼籲地鐵乘客假裝他們在度假的廣告——（廣告上）呈現卡通人物在鐵軌上用西式毛鉤釣魚，以及橫躺在地鐵座椅上。

The ads, part of a Bahamas Ministry of Tourism campaign, "advocate behavior that is clearly unsafe" and will be replaced, said Jodi Senese, a spokeswoman for CBS Outdoor, the company that distributes advertising in New York's underground.

這些廣告屬於巴哈馬觀光部宣傳活動的一部分，「提倡顯然並不安全的行為」，將會被更換，負責紐約地鐵廣告分發業務的CBS戶外公司女發言人茱蒂．塞尼斯說。

Under the heading "Instant Escape No. 2 ： How to Fly Fish with a Scarf and a Cell Phone," one ad seems to instruct riders to fish for trash on the tracks by putting something sticky on a cell phone and attaching it to a scarf.

在「立即遠颺第二彈：如何以圍巾與手機釣魚」的標題下，一幅廣告看似指導乘客以圍巾綁住沾有黏性物質的手機，藉以在軌道釣魚撿垃圾。

新聞辭典

tongue-in-cheek：形容詞，無誠意的，假心假意的，挖苦的，不可當真的。亦做tongue-in-the-cheek，也可以當副詞使用。

ban：動詞，禁止；取締查禁；咒罵；逐出。例句：She was banned from entering the school。（她被禁止進入學校。）

cram：動詞，把…塞進去；塞滿；狼吞虎嚥；填飼。名詞，極度擁擠的人群；死背的知識。例句：He goes to the cram school for the GRE exam。（他為了GRE考試去上補習班。）

axe：名詞，斧頭。動詞，用斧劈；解雇，撤銷。取消。

fly fishing：用西式毛鉤釣魚。此處的fly泛指飛蟲，此釣法是以魚鉤綁上擬蟲，拋入水中後拉扯釣線來誘魚上鉤。亦有人譯為飛繩或飛蠅釣。