From Maps To Apps

整座城市都是我的畫布！

【摘要2020.3.24.蘋果】

Where would we be without maps? The answer is...lost. Ever since their invention, maps have gone from being an explorer’s best friend to a tool for making great art. Today we have maps of each and every place. Nancy Chandler’s Map of Bangkok, for example, used to be in the hands of every traveler in Thailand.

However, in 2019, the Chandler family map business finally went under. It closed because these days, anyone can locate anything in Bangkok using online map apps such as Google Maps.

如果沒有地圖我們會身處何方呢？答案就是——迷路。自從地圖發明以來，地圖從成為探險家最好的朋友一路變成創作偉大藝術的工具。今日，我們有世界各地的地圖。例如，過去每位到泰國的旅客都人手一本萳西•錢德勒的曼谷手繪地圖。

然而到了2019年，錢德勒家族的手繪地圖事業終於歇業落幕。關門大吉的原因是因為現今任何人都可以使用如 Google 地圖等線上地圖應用程式來找到有關曼
谷的一切。

生活必備字詞

go under 倒閉
More than 50% of new companies will go under during their first year.
locate vt.找出..的位置
online a.線上的& adv.在線上

Fraudsters get hefty prison terms for impersonating French minister

詐欺犯因冒充法國部長詐騙被重判

【摘要2020.3.24.自由】◎黃靖媗

Two men who impersonated a French minister to trick wealthy people out of more than €55m have been jailed by a court in Paris. Chikli was jailed for 11 years and fined €2m while Lasarevitsch received a seven-year sentence and a fine of €1m.

兩名曾假冒法國部長詐欺有錢人逾5500萬歐元的男子，在巴黎法院被判刑入獄。奇克利被判處11年徒刑、200萬歐元罰款，拉薩雷維奇則被判7年徒刑、100萬歐元罰款。

Chikli and Lasarevitsch tried to pull off what some in France are calling the scam of the century by impersonating Le Drian, Minister for Europe and foreign affairs, and conning wealthy individuals out of 80 million euros purportedly to help pay ransoms to free French hostages being held by Islamist terrorists.

奇克利與拉薩雷維奇犯下被法國稱為世紀騙局的案件，冒充外交部長勒德里昂，要求有錢人幫忙支付贖金，營救被伊斯蘭國恐怖份子挾持的人質，據稱總共騙得8000萬歐元。

Prosecutors said that in meetings arranged on Skype, one of the fraudsters would wear a custom-made Le Drian mask and sit in a facsimile of Mr Le Drian’s ministerial office, complete with flags and a portrait of then-President François Hollande.

檢察官表示，在被安排透過Skype視訊的會議中，其中一名詐欺犯穿著訂製的勒德里昂頭套，坐在一間仿造的勒德里昂部長辦公室內，裡頭放有國旗與時任總統歐蘭德的肖像。

新聞辭典

impersonate：動詞，冒充、模仿。例句：The fraudster impersonated a staff of the bank.（這名詐欺犯冒充一名銀行員工。）

ransom：名詞，贖金。例句：The company received $2m ransom demand from cyber criminals.（這家公司從網路犯罪者那裡，接到支付贖金的要求。）

custom-made：形容詞，訂製的。例句：I bought a pair of custom-made shoes for my dad.（我買了一雙訂製的鞋子給我爸爸。）