当我首次听闻香港政府计划允许输入具特定资格的照顾员照顾长者时，脑海中浮现几个英语俗语。第一个是「set the cat among the pigeons」（在鸽群中放猫），意指在平静局面中说或做某事，引发大量麻烦、惊恐、愤怒或争议。
When I first heard about the Hong Kong government’s plans to allow the importation of specially qualified carers to look after the elderly, my mind turned to some colloquial English expressions. The first was “set the cat among the pigeons”, which basically means to say or do something that causes a good deal of trouble, alarm, anger or controversy in a peaceful situation.
触发这番思考的直接原因，是行政长官李家超在施政报告中简略提及……
The immediate trigger for this thinking was a brief reference in Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s policy address to the...