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Change log entry 69276
Processed by: richwarm (2020-02-27 05:59:20 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 65802 - submitted by 'gregboothe' >>

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1) BLUE-COLLAR WORKER

LA @ 黑手 ~ {臺} 從事機械修理的技術人員。

自台南陽明工商汽修科畢業的王亞梵,退伍後,曾在台南工廠作黑手,
A graduate from the auto maintenance program at Yang Ming Vocational High School in Tai­nan, after finishing his military service Le­kal worked for a time as a mechanic in Tai­nan,

只要提升技術,黑手就能轉型為綠領。
manual laborers can become green-collar workers by simply upgrading their skills.

像專營汽車車燈產銷業務的龍鋒企業,過去是一般人眼中的「黑手」產業,但這家公司特別專攻改裝車及高級車的「補修件」車燈領域,
Take for example Eagle Eyes, which specializes in the manufacture and sale of automobile headlights. This was always considered a "greasy hands" industry in the past, but this firm has gone after the specialized markets for customized vehicles and replacement parts for high-end cars.

再說,過去小資本創業容易,不管做黑手的、作業務的,目標都是攢點錢後自己出師開店去,
Furthermore, in the past it was easy to start a business with little capital, and both blue and white collar workers would aim to set up on their own once they had saved some money.


2) HIDDEN HAND

LA @ 黑手 ~ 借指暗中從事陰謀活動或在幕後指揮、操縱陰謀活動的人或勢力。

首先這個網址設在美國,雖然網站內容以中文刊出,幕後黑手有可能是台灣或其他地區境內的華人,
First, the site itself was set up in the United States, and although the site's content was written in Chinese, the perpetrators behind the site [a website trafficking illicit guns] could be in Taiwan or might very well be ethnic Chinese living in another country.

因為除了政治黑手以更精緻的「置入性行銷」包裝介入外,
This is not only because of the shadow hand of politicians who know how to package things and do "inserted marketing" masquerading as news,

Six months later Humphrey was gone, amid much newspaper speculation that new occupant Tony Blair's wife Cherie was behind the move.
新首相入主唐宁街六个月后,汉弗莱便失踪了,这引起英国媒体的诸多猜测,很多人认为新任首相布莱尔的妻子切丽是汉弗莱失踪的“幕后黑手”。

The painting had just been stolen in real life and the joke for viewers was that Dr No had been behind the heist all along.
然而在现实生活中,确实有名画被盗。引人发笑的是,影片中诺博士一直是盗窃的幕后黑手。

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<QUOTE>
China's allegations of U.S. "black hands" fomenting unrest in Hong Kong have been all over the news during the last few days.

[...] There is, however, an alternative theory for the current usage in Hong Kong based in puppetry, such as Japanese Bunraku (文楽), where the puppeteers are dressed entirely in black and manipulate large, colorfully garbed puppets which they hold with their black gloved hands. [...] The puppets appear to be moving on their own, but in fact are completely controlled by the invisible puppeteer.

Thus my second surmise was that, by "black hand", the CCP / PRC mean "stealthy manipulator who remains totally out of view".
<UNQUOTE>
"The enigma of the black hands" (July 25, 2019)
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=43744
Diff:
# 幕後黑手 幕后黑手 [mu4 hou4 hei1 shou3] /hidden hand/
+ 幕後黑手 幕后黑手 [mu4 hou4 hei1 shou3] /malign agent who manipulates from behind the scenes/hidden hand/
+ 黑手 黑手 [hei1 shou3] /malign agent who manipulates from behind the scenes/hidden hand/(Tw) mechanic/blue-collar worker/manual laborer/
By MDBG 2024
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