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Change log entry 62142
Processed by: ycandau (2016-07-09 15:10:18 UTC)
Comment: << review queue entry 58948 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
1) Don't need to spell out the "lit" meaning.
2) Def too wordy.
3) The last gloss makes it sound like a problem with reading comprehension.
4) "to interpret out of context"?
断章取义 seems to be about
- framing sb's words and leaving it to one's audience to misinterpret (i.e. quoting out of context)
rather than
- interpreting sb's words out of context

TP ~
1) ……」被法家斷章取義,轉為君王南面之術,老子五千言也被冠上「為統治階級服務」的帽子。
"... ..." Taken out of context by the Legalists, this was interpreted as a specific strategy of government, and Laozi's 5000-character text was accused of being a "tool of the ruling classes."

2) 回想學生時代所看到的水彩畫中文書籍幾乎都抄襲自同一版本,部分內容甚至斷章取義、以訛傳訛,
Yang recalled that all the Chinese-language works on watercolors he'd seen while still a student looked like they had been cribbed from the same source, with some of them even taking bits out of context and compounding their errors.

3) 台灣除少數氣象主播是從氣象局或軍方退休,其他多數報導氣象的記者、主播,都缺乏大氣科學的專業背景,處理颱風新聞時,常胡亂引用專有名詞,一知半解就斷章取義。
Aside from a few TV weather people who have retired from the Central Weather Bureau or the military, most weather reporters and readers are not trained in atmospheric sciences. When they handle stories about typhoons, they carelessly throw around specialized terminology and draw conclusions with only the vaguest notions of what they are talking about, creating misunderstandings and unnecessary alarm among the general public.

J
- 女权主义者的言论屡遭断章取义
- 对我的话不要断章取义
- 引用了毛泽东同志的一些话,有许多是断章取义的。
- 那位市长控告那家报社诽谤, 因为他们将他的话断章取义。
Diff:
- 斷章取義 断章取义 [duan4 zhang1 qu3 yi4] /lit. to take meaning from cut segment (idiom); to interpret out of context/to focus attention on one phrase without regard to the meaning of the whole piece/
+ 斷章取義 断章取义 [duan4 zhang1 qu3 yi4] /to quote out of context (idiom)/
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