Oracle Bones

按有用程度 按页码先后 最新笔记

• 

  2 The Voice of America

  Kris (Set!Hut!Hut!)

  In the years after the Communist victory, one Number Ten resident named Li had three sons whom he proudly named Li Mao, Li Ze, and Li Dong. Whenever he called them to help in the fields, he shouted, “Mao, Ze, Dong, get over here right now!” He claimed that this was his way of expressing love for the Chairman. Nevertheless, the man became an easy target during the Cultural Revolution, when the pe... (更多)

  In the years after the Communist victory, one Number Ten resident named Li had three sons whom he proudly named Li Mao, Li Ze, and Li Dong. Whenever he called them to help in the fields, he shouted, “Mao, Ze, Dong, get over here right now!” He claimed that this was his way of expressing love for the Chairman. Nevertheless, the man became an easy target during the Cultural Revolution, when the peasants imitated the “struggle sessions” that they had heard about from the village propaganda loudspeakers. In Number Ten, the peasants hung Li from his wrists, criticized him for misusing the Chairman’s name, and forced him to drink urine from a public latrine.

  似曾相识。 (收起)

  2011-10-25 22:06:28   回应

  收藏

  推荐
• 

  2 The Voice of America

  Kris (Set!Hut!Hut!)

  During my last year at the college, Willy and some of his classmates taught me various bits of tuhua— “earth speak,” a Chinese phrase for local slang. In Sichuan, you could insult somebody by calling him a “son of a melon” or a “son of a turtle”; the local pronunciation of “hammer” meant “penis.” Yashua—“toothbrush”—was for some obscure reason degrading when used as an adjective (“... (更多)

  During my last year at the college, Willy and some of his classmates taught me various bits of tuhua— “earth speak,” a Chinese phrase for local slang. In Sichuan, you could insult somebody by calling him a “son of a melon” or a “son of a turtle”; the local pronunciation of “hammer” meant “penis.” Yashua—“toothbrush”—was for some obscure reason degrading when used as an adjective (“You are very toothbrush!”). In basketball games, if an athlete shot an air ball or made a bad play, the Sichuanese fans chanted yangwei, yangwei, yangwei—impotent, impotent, impotent. After I played basketball with Willy’s classmates, he would often say, in mock earnestness, “I see that you still have a big problem with impotence.”

  同为川北人表示压力很大。哈哈 (收起)

  2011-10-25 22:04:11   1人收藏   回应

  收藏

  推荐
• 

  The Courtyard

  lvscar (just for fun)

  Some residents kept makeshift pigeon coops on their roofs,and they tied whistles to the birds,so that the flock sounded when it passed overhead. In the old parts of Beijing,the low-pitched hum,rising and falling as the birds soared across the sky,was the mark of beautiful clear day. 一些老北京在房顶上建了鸽舍,把饲养的鸽子绑上哨子，使他们飞过头顶时能发出声音. 在北京老城区,这伴随鸟儿翱翔过天空的.. (更多)

  Some residents kept makeshift pigeon coops on their roofs,and they tied whistles to the birds,so that the flock sounded when it passed overhead. In the old parts of Beijing,the low-pitched hum,rising and falling as the birds soared across the sky,was the mark of beautiful clear day.

  一些老北京在房顶上建了鸽舍,把饲养的鸽子绑上哨子，使他们飞过头顶时能发出声音. 在北京老城区,这伴随鸟儿翱翔过天空的嗡嗡低音声不断起落,是晴朗好天气的标志. (收起)

  2011-08-18 09:34:37   1回应

  收藏

  推荐

• 

  第3页

  艾米的小闲事 (身处繁华心若素，欲向古朴味自来)

  In the traditional view of the Chinese past, there is no equivalent of the fall of Rome, no Renaissance, no Enlightenment. Instead, emperor succeeds emperor, and dynasty follows dynasty. History as wallpaper. In A Truthful Impression of the Country, an analysis of Western travel writing about China, Nicholas R. Clifford describes this nineteenth-century foreign perspective:“China had a far longer... (更多)

  In the traditional view of the Chinese past, there is no equivalent of the fall of Rome, no Renaissance, no Enlightenment. Instead, emperor succeeds emperor, and dynasty follows dynasty. History as wallpaper. In A Truthful Impression of the Country, an analysis of Western travel writing about China, Nicholas R. Clifford describes this nineteenth-century foreign perspective:“China had a far longer past than the West—no one would think of denying that—but the past and history are not the same thing. Here in China’s past there was no narrative but only stories."

  (收起)

  2011-05-18 15:17:59   1人收藏   回应

  收藏

  推荐
• 

  第3页

  locatelli

  “China had a far longer past than the West—no one would think of denying that—but the past and history are not the same thing. Here in China’s past there was no narrative but only stories.” (更多)

  “China had a far longer past than the West—no one would think of denying that—but the past and history are not the same thing. Here in China’s past there was no narrative but only stories.”

  (收起)

  2011-10-03 13:05:33   回应

  收藏

  推荐
• 

  第4页

  艾米的小闲事 (身处繁华心若素，欲向古朴味自来)

  “You have to look at the landscape in a dynamic way,” he says. “You have to see the landscape evolving. It might be completely different from what it was three thousand years ago. We’re looking at human society in three dimensions; it’s not just the surface that matters. We had to add another dimension: the time dimension. (更多)

  “You have to look at the landscape in a dynamic way,” he says. “You have to see the landscape evolving. It might be completely different from what it was three thousand years ago. We’re looking at human society in three dimensions; it’s not just the surface that matters. We had to add another dimension: the time dimension.

  (收起)

  2011-05-18 15:30:56   回应

  收藏

  推荐

• 

  第164页

  英英美代子 (不卖粽子的超市都不是好超市！)

  some divides, though, were as artificial and as porous as the fence itself. Across China, Reform and Opening had introduced an entirely new framework of social class and upward mobility, but the system still felt incomplete. Even in America, which prided itself on egalitarianism, there were old families, old schools, old ways to succeed. China hadn't yet developed this, at least not in the new cli... (更多)

  some divides, though, were as artificial and as porous as the fence itself. Across China, Reform and Opening had introduced an entirely new framework of social class and upward mobility, but the system still felt incomplete. Even in America, which prided itself on egalitarianism, there were old families, old schools, old ways to succeed. China hadn't yet developed this, at least not in the new climate. It was hard to define how education, experience, and determination added up; success was a murky concept.

  (收起)

  2012-01-22 11:46:14   回应

  收藏

  推荐
• 

  第129页

  英英美代子 (不卖粽子的超市都不是好超市！)

  Regardless of what kind of problem an individual had, it was his problem, and only he could do something about it. Without the sense of a rational system, people rarely felt connected to the troubles of others. The crackdown of Falun Gong should have been disturbing to most Chinese - the group had done nothing worse than make a series of minor political miscalculations that had added up. But few a... (更多)

  Regardless of what kind of problem an individual had, it was his problem, and only he could do something about it. Without the sense of a rational system, people rarely felt connected to the troubles of others. The crackdown of Falun Gong should have been disturbing to most Chinese - the group had done nothing worse than make a series of minor political miscalculations that had added up. But few average people expressed sympathy for the believers, because they couldn't imagine how that issue could be connected to their own relationship with the law. In part, this was cultural - the Chinese had never stressed strong community bonds; the family and other more immediate groups were the ones that mattered most. But the lack of a rational legal climate also encouraged people to focus strictly to their own problems.

  (收起)

  2012-01-19 10:52:03   回应

  收藏

  推荐
• 

  第397页

  Yang Jing

  As a journalist, you tracked trivia. Occasionally, you looked up from the routine of patchwork news stories and realized that somehow, imperceptiably, the whole picture had changed. At those moments - wearing the suit and tie, boarding the press bus with other white guys in suits and ties - you wondered: Is this what it all comes down to? Does the world actually move forward through these meeting... (更多)

  As a journalist, you tracked trivia. Occasionally, you looked up from the routine of patchwork news stories and realized that somehow, imperceptiably, the whole picture had changed. At those moments - wearing the suit and tie, boarding the press bus with other white guys in suits and ties - you wondered: Is this what it all comes down to? Does the world actually move forward through these meetings and speeches, the thirty-hour stopovers?

  (收起)

  2012-01-15 14:03:20   回应

  收藏

  推荐