中英对照：安省华裔省议员柯文斌在微信张贴中称的“宝贝”是谁？

（大中报/096.ca特稿）：4月25日晚，微信群“加拿大校友会长扩大群”内正在讨论新冠病毒如何搅黄了一场两个高校事先安排好的排球赛。突然间，群内成员，多伦多当河谷北选区的省议员柯文斌冒出了一个张贴，让整个微信群震惊不已。

In the evening of April 25, 2020, a WeChat group (named “expanded group of university alumni association leaders”) engaged in a conversation concerning COVID 19 and its impact on a pre-arranged volleyball game between two association teams.  Suddenly, an unexpected post from Vincent Ke, a group member and an elected MPP for Don Valley North, appeared on the screen, which shocked the entire online chat room.

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柯议员张贴问了一个简单问题，“你去哪儿了，宝贝？”他用了一个非常亲昵并常常称呼情人的字眼，“宝贝”。看到这个张贴的群内成员顿时感到既惊奇又困惑，心中的疑虑溢于言表。显然，人们在问：“柯议员是在叫谁宝贝啊？!难道他金屋藏娇，有一个秘密的情人？”

In a one-sentence question, the MPP texted, “Where have you been, babe?”, using a popular term of endearment “babe,” which takes the conation of intimacy and which often refers to a romantic partner.  Confusions and disbelieves ensued, with unspoken questions arising in the eyes of some group members that witnessed it firsthand. “Who was the babe to whom the MPP was referring? Does the MPP have a secret romantic partner?”

柯议员是在周六，4月25日晚大约10点左右发出这个张贴的。静谧的周末夜晚往往是休闲娱乐的好时机。当群内讨论正围绕着新冠和一场向往已久的排球赛展开时，柯议员的张贴立即扰乱了群内即时氛围，并使谈话焦点立即转移到谁是被柯议员呵护的“宝贝”上来。在众多的提问和脸谱之中，一名成员斗胆问道：“叫我吗？”另一幅跟帖立即回答：“当然不是！”

Mr. Ke’s post came in at approximately 10 pm on a Saturday, April 25, 2020, a perfect free time for leisure talks and fun activities.  As the conversations went further and deeper concerning how COVID 19 ruined a much desired sports game, Ke’s post disrupted the prevailing mood in the chat room and led the topic of the discussion quickly veered off the previous theme. Questions with emojis poured in, with some seeking an answer directly from the MPP.  “Did you mean me?” asked one of the members boldly, with a quick follow-up post: “Apparently not!”

此时柯议员立即道歉，说犯了一个不小心的错误：“打错了。不好意思？”但是当群内成员离群忙乎时间表上的下一项活动时，疑问和顾虑却仍然困扰着他们。《大中报》随即收到了一幅含有柯议员这一张贴的截屏。

Mr. Ke apologized immediately. “A typo, Very Sorry!” he texted, saying he made a mistake by sending the post. But as the group members quit the chat and started the next activity in their Saturday evening’s agenda, questions and concerns lingered, which prompted a screenshot of Ke’s post sent to Chinese News.



《大中报》于周一，4月27日给柯议员电邮，要求他能直接回答他是否卷入婚外情的问题。电邮指出，柯议员使用的情人昵称让人不禁怀疑他不是简简单单地打错了字，而是否与某人暗地保持着一种暧昧关系。柯议员当天晚对大中报电邮做出回应，矢口否认这种猜疑，而是反复强调是不小心发错了贴。

In an email sent to Mr. Ke on Monday, April 27, Chinese News sought a straight answer from the MPP over a question of whether he was involved in an extra-marital affair. The email pointed out that the tones of intimacy in his post raised suspicions that he might have kept a secret relationship that goes beyond a mistake of a typo.  Mr. Ke responded to the email later in the day, denying the suspicion outright by repeatedly saying the post was a mistake.

在回答《大中报》询问的电邮中，柯议员说他本想把该贴发给一名男性朋友。柯议员称，他本想向这位男性朋友说“拜拜”，但当通过拼音输入字母“bb”后，拼音软件功能向他提供了数个选择，而他不小心找错了字，错选了”宝贝“二字。

Mr. Ke said in an email responding to Chinese News inquires that he intended to send the question to a male friend. He said he meant to write “bye-bye (拜拜)” to his friend but when he typed the letters “bb,” through Chinese language platform pinyin, it offered him several choices, and he accidentally chose the wrong word babe (宝贝), instead of his intended one -- “bye-bye (拜拜).”



“我还犯了另一个错误，那就是发错了群。”

“And by another mistake, I sent it to the wrong group.”

柯议员在给《大中报》的电邮中称：“我已婚，有个幸福的家庭……没想到一个错字却导致了这种毫无根源的‘暧昧关系’，和‘婚外情’之猜疑。我强烈反对就一个常见的拼音输入错误而进行的任何猜测。”

“I am happily married,” Ke wrote continuously in the email. “I am deeply shocked that a typo message leads to this baseless assumption of a ‘secret relationship’ or ‘an extra-marital affair.’ I strongly oppose any interpretation of a (prevalent) pinyin input mistake.”

但就这幅张贴所引发的公众猜疑 --不管是不是出于柯议员的粗心，身为省议员和为人之夫的柯文斌先生不应对公众的反响感到惊奇。

But given the public sensation his post has sparked – mistakenly or not, Mr. Ke, an MPP and a married man, shouldn’t feel shocked by the public reaction at all.