《中英對照讀新聞》"Paris Syndrome" leaves Japanese tourists in shock ／「巴黎症候群」讓日本遊客大吃一驚

◎胡立宗

Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported.

據一家報紙報導，在見識過巴黎的不友善當地人及骯髒的街道，與預期天差地別的真實情況後，每年大概都有十幾名日本觀光客必須接受心理治療。

"A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses," Yousef Mahmoudia, a psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.

「3分之1的病患能馬上恢復，3分之1還會復發，其他的則變成精神病患，」巴黎聖母院附近的神居醫院心理醫生瑪穆迪亞向「星期日報」表示。

Already this year, Japan’s embassy in Paris has had to repatriate at least four visitors -- including two women who believed their hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against them.

今年以來，巴黎的日本大使館已經將至少4位觀光客送回國─包括兩名婦女，她們相信旅館房間被竊聽，有人陰謀對她們不利。

Previous cases include a man convinced he was the French "Sun King", Louis XIV, and a woman who believed she was being attacked with microwaves, the paper cited Japanese embassy official Aoyagi as saying.

該報引述日本大使館官員青柳的話說，之前的案例包括一名男子相信自己是法國「太陽王」路易十四，以及一名女性相信自己遭到微波攻擊。

The phenomenon, which the newspaper dubbed "Paris Syndrome", was first detailed in a psychiatric journal in 2004.

該報稱這種現象為「巴黎症候群」，是2004年在一本精神病學雜誌上首次加以仔細討論。

新聞辭典

Paris Syndrome：以地名Paris（巴黎）加Syndrome（症候群），表示在某地發生的特別心理現象，其他例子如︰Helsinki Syndrome（赫爾辛基症候群），描述受害者反而同情加害者的狀態。

scruffy：骯髒、破舊的。

例句︰The old lady lives in a scruffy house.（老婦 住在骯髒的屋中。）

relapse：名詞、動詞，（病）復發。

例句︰He had a relapse.（他病情復發了。 ）