This CCTV, not that CCTV

zs_cosco · 发表于 2010-11-8 23:51

出自John Morgan之手。他七十年代从新西兰赴北京学中文，还给自己起了个中文名字“穆茂盛”。他的短文照录如下：
In the truly brilliant first chapter of The True Story of Ah Q, and to a less brilliantly satirical degree throughout the rest of his writings, Lu Xun complained by obvious implication of the tendency of Chinese affairs to go around and around in loops. One wonders how the party responsible for giving Zhong Guo Zhong Yang Dian Shi Tai the English name CCTV meant to relate to that complaint of Lu Xun’s. Do they mean to affim his point or negate it? It is true that it can be gratifying when situations go around and around in loops, but, I submit, only when they do so with subtle and interesting variations. The English term ‘closed circuit television’ contains the words ‘closed circuit’ and those words have to my mind a chilling suggestion of situations that go around and around in loops with no variation whatsoever, subtle or otherwise. Thus I don’t like the term ‘closed circuit television’ even in its ordinary English usage and I certainly do not approve of implicitly linking it with a Chinese television service , especially a major one.

smr660 · 发表于 2010-11-9 09:13

can not understand

zs_cosco · 发表于 2010-11-9 21:59

It means chinese don't insist on what they have for thousands years. It seems funny even for foreigner.

zs_cosco · 发表于 2010-11-17 21:14

回复 4# haiyangren

I want say, I do not want to say anything.