黃仁勳：辭職、臨時接棒與未完的調查 Jensen Huang: Resignation, Interim Succession and the Unfinished Inquiry

黃仁勳：辭職、臨時接棒與未完的調查 Jensen Huang: Resignation, Interim Succession and the Unfinished Inquiry

一、字源

Interim：拉丁文，意為「其間、在此期間」，指兩個正式狀態之間的過渡。

Chair：希臘文 kathedra「座椅」，與 cathedral（主教座堂）同源。

Resign：拉丁文 re（反向）加 signare（蓋印），本義是「拆封、註銷」。

Successor：拉丁文 sub（下）加 cedere（走），「走到後面接位」。

Adultery：拉丁文 adulterare「玷污」，一般認為與 alter（另一個）有關。

Allegation：拉丁文 allegare「委託陳述」，指尚待查證的主張。

二、中文介紹

事件的時間線大致如下：10月底，外界得知黃仁勳與一名被指為中國間諜的女子有密切關係；11月8日，他在給員工的信中承認對妻子不忠，董事會同時宣布獨立調查；11月11日，紐約時報報導他與一名直屬部下另有關係，同日董事會接受他的辭呈；11月12日，輝達公告辭職與人事安排。這位創辦人自1993年起領導公司，在位三十三年。

治理上的重點有三個。第一，董事會的反應是「先調查、再處置」，聘請前代理聯邦檢察官與華爾街律師事務所，而不是急著為他背書。第二，臨時執行長由財務長兼任，並非新設職位，這代表董事會優先追求的是延續性，而不是方向轉變。第三，調查尚在進行，沒有查到已公布的結論，所以「他做了什麼」與「報導說他做了什麼」之間，仍有落差。

三、英文長難句

Although Jensen Huang, who co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and who had admitted in a memo to employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife, resigned as president, chief executive and director within a day of a New York Times report that, citing five people who worked at the company, described a further relationship with a married senior executive who reported directly to him, a relationship that neither he nor Nvidia nor the executive has confirmed, the board, which has named its chief financial officer as interim chief executive while it searches for a permanent successor and which had already retained a former acting U.S. attorney to investigate whether he had been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort, has yet to publish findings, so that what has been established remains considerably narrower than what has been alleged.

中譯：雖然黃仁勳（1993年共同創辦輝達，並曾在給員工的信中承認對妻子不忠）在紐約時報一篇報導的一天之內辭去了總裁、執行長與董事職務；該報導引述五名公司員工，描述他與一名已婚、直屬於他的高階主管另有一段關係，而他、輝達與該主管都未證實這段關係；但董事會（已任命財務長為臨時執行長並著手尋找永久繼任者，也早已聘請前代理聯邦檢察官調查他是否成為外國情報行動的目標）尚未公布調查結果，因此已被證實的部分，仍遠比被指控的部分狹窄。

四、較容易懂的分段排列

第一塊是讓步子句：

Although Jensen Huang,

（雖然黃仁勳）

who co-founded Nvidia in 1993

（他在1993年共同創辦輝達）

and who had admitted in a memo to employees that he had been unfaithful to his wife,

（也曾在給員工的信中承認對妻子不忠）

resigned as president, chief executive and director

（辭去了總裁、執行長與董事職務）

within a day of a New York Times report

（在紐約時報一篇報導的一天之內）

that, citing five people who worked at the company,

（該報導引述五名公司員工）

described a further relationship with a married senior executive who reported directly to him,

（描述他與一名已婚、直屬於他的高階主管另有一段關係）

a relationship that neither he nor Nvidia nor the executive has confirmed,

（這段關係他、輝達與該主管都未證實）

第二塊是主句：

the board,

（董事會）

which has named its chief financial officer as interim chief executive

（已任命財務長為臨時執行長）

while it searches for a permanent successor

（同時尋找永久繼任者）

and which had already retained a former acting U.S. attorney

（也早已聘請前代理聯邦檢察官）

to investigate whether he had been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort,

（調查他是否成為外國情報行動的目標）

has yet to publish findings,

（尚未公布調查發現）

so that what has been established remains considerably narrower than what has been alleged.

（因此已被證實的部分仍遠比被指控的部分狹窄）

五、文法解析

整體骨架。Although 子句的主詞是 Jensen Huang，動詞是 resigned；主句的主詞是 the board，動詞是 has yet to publish。兩者相隔近九十個字，閱讀時先抓這兩組主詞與動詞。

並列的 who 子句與時態。who co-founded ... and who had admitted ...：兩個子句共同修飾 Huang。had admitted 用過去完成式，因為承認發生在辭職之前；that he had been unfaithful 再往前一層，因為不忠發生在承認之前。

三項並列的職位。resigned as president, chief executive and director：as 後接三個並列名詞，職稱前不加冠詞。

最難處：a report that, citing..., described...。that 是關係代名詞，作 described 的主詞；citing five people 是插在 that 與動詞之間的現在分詞片語。

同位語加 neither...nor...nor。a relationship that neither he nor Nvidia nor the executive has confirmed：三項否定並列，動詞用單數 has。

兩個並列的 which 子句。which has named ... and which had already retained ...：兩者都修飾 the board。前者用現在完成式，表示現在仍有效；後者用過去完成式，表示早於辭職就已發生。

while 與不定詞。while it searches for a permanent successor：while 引導同時發生的狀況，it 指 board。to investigate whether he had been targeted：不定詞表目的，whether 子句作其受詞，had been targeted 為被動過去完成式。

結果子句與比較。so that what has been established remains considerably narrower than what has been alleged：兩個 what 子句分別作主詞與比較對象，considerably 修飾比較級 narrower。

六、原始的諸多短小句

Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia in 1993.

He admitted something in a memo to employees.

He had been unfaithful to his wife.

The New York Times published a report.

The report cited five people who worked at the company.

The report described a further relationship.

The relationship was with a senior executive.

The executive is married.

The executive reported directly to Huang.

Neither Huang nor Nvidia nor the executive has confirmed the relationship.

Huang resigned as president, chief executive and director.

He resigned within a day of the report.

The board named its chief financial officer as interim chief executive.

The board is searching for a permanent successor.

The board had already retained a former acting U.S. attorney.

The attorney is to investigate something.

Huang might have been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort.

The board has not yet published findings.

Some things have been established.

Other things have been alleged.

The first set is considerably narrower than the second.

七、逆向工程：把短句組回長句

第1步，主角（合併句1、2、3）。句1 用 who 變成子句；句2、3 用 that 連成 admitted that he had been unfaithful，再用 and who 並列。

第2步，報導（合併句4至10）。句4 的 report 作先行詞；句6 的 described 前移到 that 之後；句5 縮成插入的 citing...；句7、8、9 縮成 a married senior executive who reported directly to him；句10 以同位語接在 relationship 之後：...a report that, citing five people who worked at the company, described a further relationship with ..., a relationship that neither he nor Nvidia nor the executive has confirmed。

第3步，辭職（合併句11、12）。合為 resigned as president, chief executive and director within a day of a New York Times report...，放在第1步主詞之後。

第4步，加上讓步框架。以 Although 把前三步整體降為讓步子句。

第5步，董事會的作為（合併句13、14、15、16、17）。句13、14 用 which has named ... while it searches ... 連成第一個子句；句15 用 and which had already retained 並列；句16、17 合成 to investigate whether he had been targeted by a foreign intelligence effort。

第6步，主句動詞（句18）。has yet to publish findings 作主句動詞，接在 the board 的兩個 which 子句之後。

第7步，結論（合併句19、20、21）。用 so that 引導結果子句，句19、20 變成兩個 what 子句，句21 提供比較結構：so that what has been established remains considerably narrower than what has been alleged。

最終合成，就是第三節的完整長句。

八、補充說明

這個句子把「已證實」與「未證實」放在不同的語法位置。承認不忠、辭職、任命臨時執行長，都是已公告的事實，用直述的動詞；Powell 一事則用 report、described、has not confirmed 保持距離。

文中沒有採用的內容有兩項。一是 Alice Huang 的間諜身分，因為那是調查的核心問題，中方也否認；二是路透社報導的第三段關係，沒查到可靠細節。至於「double adultery」，只有紐約時報的報導說 Powell 也已婚，其他兩位的婚姻狀況我沒查到，所以不寫入句中。

另外，「has yet to publish findings」是依查到的資料寫的，若之後調查結果公布，這一句就要改寫。

九、後記

長句最後落在 narrower than 並非偶然。事件發展越快，報導越多，「已確認什麼」就越容易被淹沒。一個誠實的長句，應該讓每個讀者都看得出：這一部分是公告，那一部分是報導，最後一部分仍是問號。