braid. “densely braided narrative,”. 電影最真實的地方在於它“錯綜複雜的敘事”，而“飽受折磨的英雄聽起來像是克里斯多福諾蘭電影中的英雄”。 像他把與荷馬原著完全不同的價值觀強加到奧德修斯的冒險 .the most authentic thing about the movie was its “densely braided narrative,” while the “tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.”

 

Daniel Mendelsohn, a professor of humanities at Bard College whose own translation of “The Odyssey” was published last year by the University of Chicago Press, 

the most authentic thing about the movie was its “densely braided narrative,” while the “tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.”

這部電影最真實的地方在於它“錯綜複雜的敘事”，而“飽受折磨的英雄聽起來像是克里斯多福諾蘭電影中的英雄”。

「無論諾蘭對史詩的痴迷程度如何，他只不過是按照自己的形象重塑了荷馬筆下的英雄，就像他把與荷馬原著完全不同的價值觀強加到奧德修斯的冒險故事中一樣。”

“Whatever his lifelong fascination with the epic, Nolan has merely remade Homer’s hero in his own image, just as he has imposed on Odysseus’s adventures values utterly foreign to Homer,”

"Dear Heart, Why Will You Use Me So?" by James Joyce

Dear heart, why will you use me so?
Dear eyes that gently me upbraid,
Still are you beautiful -- - but O, 
How is your beauty raimented!

I placed a jar in Tennessee, 
And round it was, upon a hill. 
It made ​​the slovenly wilderness 
Surround that hill.


Laura gorges on the delicious fruit in a sort of bacchic frenzy, then once she is finished, after picking up one of the seeds, returns home in an ecstatic trance. Lizzie, waiting at home, and "full of wise upbraidings," reminds Laura about the cautionary tale of Jeanie, another girl who, having likewise partaken of the goblin being's fruits, died just at the beginning of winter, after a long and horrible decline, and strangely no grass grows over her grave. 

Court Upbraided N.S.A. on Its Use of Call-Log Data

By SCOTT SHANE

Secret documents showed that the National Security Agency was reprimanded for violating its own rules and misleading the nation's intelligence court about how it used data.

With Boston Manhunt, Media Is Part of the Story

By BRIAN STELTER 16 minutes ago

Reporters found themselves in a complex relationship with the authorities, being thanked and chastised at the same time.

The religious disagreement between the Vatican and the LCWR has a lot to do with end-of-life and abortion debates in the U.S., especially in the context of President Obama's health care reform law. As the BBC notes, the Vatican chastised the group for ignoring the church's stance on euthanasia and abortion, and for making public statements that "disagree with or challenge positions taken by the bishops" in the U.S. The Vatican is also upset with the group for apparently challenging church teaching on homosexuality and male-only priesthood.

Miss O'Keeffe stormed up from Texas and upbraided Stieglitz for showing her work without her permission. His answer was to persuade her to move to New York, abandon her teaching and devote herself to painting. He presented one-woman shows of her work almost annually thereafter until 1946, the year of his death. He and Miss O'Keeffe had been married 21 years.


upbraid
verb [T] FORMAL ━━ vt. 叱る, 非難する.
to forcefully or angrily tell someone they should not have done a particular thing and criticize them for having done it:
In newspaper articles she consistently upbraided those in authority who overstepped their limits.

braid

/breɪd/

A braid is a pattern or structure made by interlacing three or more strands of flexible material—such as hair, yarn, or wire—over and under each other. [1, 2]

Meanings and Uses

As a Noun (Hair): A length of hair divided into sections and woven together (also called a plait in British English).
As a Verb: The act of weaving or twisting those strands together.
As a Noun (Clothing): A narrow, decorative band or twisted thread used to trim uniforms, costumes, or curtains (like gold braid on a captain's hat).
Figuratively: To mix or interweave different ideas, stories, or elements together. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]