關於 poker meaning ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

可以講 an #ask、a #tell，係名詞
//明報英文 | 毛孟靜
To ask、to tell 大家都識得，屬小學程度、簡單不過的詞語，I will ASK him to TELL me about it.
我會去問他，着他告訴我。

不過，這些平易的字，常常會另有用法，別有深意。譬如說，一樣是 to ask，以下這一句，就跟一般的「問」不一樣了：Is that too much to ask?

上述這句話表達懊惱不忿，旨在反問：不過是冀望一點簡單的什麼，這樣的要求也算苛刻？例如：
* I just want you to be on time. Is that too much to ask? 我不過想你準時，這要求過份嗎？

而to tell，亦可解作to have an effect（產生效果）：
* She's been under a lot of stress and it's starting to tell. 她一直承受頗多壓力，後遺症開始浮現。

而把ask 和 tell 變做名詞，成為an ask、a tell，又是另一個故事了。

初遇 an ask，自然而然地會以為這是潮語，不對呢，原來早已在古英語（Old English）出現。今日的an ask，基本上等於 a request，一項請求。
* I realise it's a big ask, but I hope you can do it. 我知道這是一項很大的要求，但希望你能做到。

有說，新世代的 an ask 源自金融行業的 bid and ask：bid是買家願意購入的最高限價；ask則是賣家願意出售的最低叫價。An ask在30年前左右開始流行，但至今仍然給視為口頭俚語，不能入文。

* It is a big ask for him to go and stand there for 90 minutes.要他站足90分鐘，是過份要求了。

《牛津字典》說，ask 在新時代作為名詞，通常前面會加 big、huge 或tough 一類的形容詞，意思係something that is a lot to ask of someone（對人有過份要求），或something difficult to achieve（難以滿足的要求），如同文首的Is that too much to ask?

而 a tell 的用法就比較有迹可尋。現成的形容詞是 tell-tale，代表突顯、展示及「露出馬腳」之意：
There was the tell-tale bulge of a concealed weapon in his pocket. 他口袋鼓起一角，分明就藏了一件武器。

另有 a tell in poker，是指玩撲克——又叫 show hand（「沙蟹」）——之際，神色姿態露出端倪，讓對家知道底牌。
* I never played poker, so I never learned to read a tell. 我不玩「沙蟹」，所以不會觀貌察色。

* A player gains an advantage if he understands the meaning of another player's tell. 若能從對家神態動作「讀心」，就可佔上風。

* I looked for a gesture, a tone of voice, a "tell" that would tell if he was the killer. 我尋找一個姿勢，一種聲調，一點「蛛絲馬迹 」來定奪他是否就是兇手。//

เมื่อวานได้ดูหนังเรื่อง Molly's Game (ซึ่งถัดจากนี้จะมีการเผยเนื้อหาสำคัญของเรื่อง) เป็นเรื่องของนักกีฬาสกีสาวอนาคตไกลที่ถูกพ่อเทรนมาอย่างหนักหนา เข้มงวด กดดัน จนกระทั่งเกือบได้เหรียญโอลิมปิก แต่แล้วเธอก็พลาดไปเพียงเพราะสะดุดกิ่งสนที่โผล่ขึ้นมาจากพื้นหิมะของลานสกีทำให้ล้มคว่ำไม่เป็นท่า จากนั้นชีวิตก็ลากพาเธอเข้าสู่ด้านสีเทา กลายเป็นคนเปิดบ่อนโป๊กเกอร์ (ซึ่งลูกค้าในบ่อนมีแต่ผู้ชายระดับบิ๊กจากสารพัดวงการ) กระทั่งถูกจับ และเกือบต้องเข้าคุก ทั้งที่สมัยเรียนเธอเป็นเด็กเรียนดีมาก

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Continue ReadingYesterday, I watched Molly's game (next to this, the important content of the story). It was about the far future ski athlete who was trained by the father, pressured until almost got the Olympic Medal, but then she only missed it. Because of the pine branches that came up from the snow floor of the ski slope. Then life dragged her into the grey side to open poker. (there are only big men in the casino) Until I was arrested and almost went to jail in school. She was a very good student.

Molly and dad have always been so bad with how Molly feels that he loves her brother more than she is better at skiing). and dad feels like her daughter likes to interrupted and Molly. I hate dad harder when I know the secret that he cheated on mom.

The story comes to the end after disappearing from each other's lives. Both of them meet again at the ice rink in the middle of the city.

Father (which is an expensive psychiatrist) tells the child that all you have done for your life to win the father. Happiness from opening the casino is not because they get a lot of money. If it is the feeling that they have control those "men" to solve the knot when you were Command for the rest of my life.

Dad opened her an opportunity to ask. Molly asked how he felt about cheating on her mom because he felt like he did something too bad. Forgive him, control his mind and said yes, dad did what was bad but at least dad Well, raise three kids to grow up. One is a two-Time Olympic Champion. The other is a famous surgeon. The other earn hundreds of millions of millions (he means Molly) and dad says to Molly, " no one is perfect. But at least dad did the right thing "

My Dad's words, I thought he didn't say it to excuse himself, but this word heals Molly's mind as well.

Of course, this quote doesn't make people who do wrong things right because bad things deserve to get the consequences of that action, but this word makes us expand our perspective from looking at one person more.

When I'm angry, I hate someone, we often shrink our perspective. There are only narrow areas that we don't like. Remind that person in the same story and over and over again. Then that person becomes "just" that we forget other dimensions. His other stories are gone.

" Father " for Molly Shrinking the meaning to only " bad man who cheated on mother " even if he has other meaning, raised her to teach good things, strict, strict and disciplined or even the love that father gave you can't see.

In our life, there may be someone we accidentally " Judge " and shrink the perspective on him to only this narrow definition. The part that we try to answer his " fault " is because of us (who hates him) will become " Right side "

The worse he is, the more we get mad at him.
The more he is wrong, the more we are right.

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Dad told Molly she saw that dad cheated on mom since she was five years old. Molly doesn't remember but it seems to be in her subconscious, so she was stubborn with her father and didn't like dad all the time. I knew that daughter saw secrets. I am ashamed every time I am in front of my child. I treat you without attachment like other people's children. These two things are reactions until it is a broken relationship of father. Cuddle kids.

When Molly expands his perspective on her father, she can love her father and receive love with other aspects of the father that mean positively to her.

With relationships in life, sometimes we aim for black spots on white paper and crush it with black pen repeatedly until the paper is torn through, forgetting that there is still a lot of white space to create good stories together.

Of course, some things are too painful to forgive. Distangence and step apart may be a better choice, but some hate is nice to expand your perspective to connect with other things.

As I said, this sentence heals Molly's " faults " together. As she grows up, she begins to have " faults " in life that are blown by the wind of emotions and fate. She begins to understand humanity more that humans are always wrong when Wrong, what I want most is a new beginning, giving and forgiveness especially - from our loved ones.

It's not strange that when we grow up, we can forgive people easier. Not that we are kinder, but because we have been wrong. We are more sympathy for those who do wrong. See from our own corner, we know that father's words are true. " no one is perfect but at least there is something right

In some times of relationship, we may have to try this glasses to check that the person we feel bad about him. Does wrong in our eyes. Does anything " do right

As well, in our lives, in a dark condition that we have made before feeling worse about ourselves than we are. Should check if we have "right" things in the same.

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While watching the lives of two father and children stay away. I don't feel that what they did was wrong or should forgive them all. At least their lives show that humans are like this. We may do wrong some time but no one is bad. Looking at a human friend like this makes us see the truth of man rather than to expect the ideal goodness. If that person does wrong, then we will curse him as a demon or evil, angry, hate that we don't want to see each other again.

That should not be. There is a simple reason.

Because I'm wrong or today or next day

And we need the same perspective for ourselves. Please look at me as human beings. There is good, bad, there is right, wrong, but always need is love, understanding and forgive each other.

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The movie ended with a scene where Molly had an accident from the back of the surgery. She could see if she got up, but then she stood up again with the same father she hated so much. Again.

Traumatized, full body wound but got up and walked on.

She said the one thing she always had was " the spirit of never giving up

Which I believe - she got this from dadTranslated

網球與插畫 - The Meaning of Courage、No Place for the ‘S’ Word in Tennis。

立陶宛插畫家Karolis Strautniekas為Tennis Magazine所繪製的概念插畫系列conceptual tennis illustrations共四張，分別為：The Meaning of Courage(勇氣的意義)、No Place for the ‘S’ Word in Tennis(網球世界裡沒有“S”)、Tennis Lessons from the Game of Poker(撲克牌裡的網球課)、The Imperfection of Perfection(完美中的不完美)。

插畫家Karolis Strautniekas的作品裡呈現對生活的感觸，畫面細膩充滿細節，特別喜歡他獨特的皺皺粗粗的復古質感，彷彿摸得到”觸感“的插畫作品。

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