What’s the main idea of Part I
A: A story about a family dinner to introduce the topic of the essay, i.e. whether Chinese language and culture are indirect and polite.
B: There is no one word in Chinese for “yes” or “no”, which is not because Chinese people are discreet, but because their answer is specific to what is asked.
A: A story about a family dinner to introduce the topic of the essay, i.e. whether Chinese language and culture are indirect and polite.
B: There is no one word in Chinese for “yes” or “no”, which is not because Chinese people are discreet, but because their answer is specific to what is asked.
举一反三
- Directions: Complete the summary with the given words. Each word can be used only once. modest; discreet; gulf; recipient; courtesy; censorship; configuration; suspicious of; out of necessity; If anything Once, at a dinner, my mother whispered to me confidentially: “Sau-sau pretends too hard to be a polite ____1_____! Why bother with such nominal ____2_____? In the end, she always takes everything.” My mother no longer patient with old taboos and courtesies. I read an article in The New York Times Magazine, where the author mentioned that the interwoven ______3_____ of Chinese language and culture renders its speech indirect and polite. Chinese people are so “____4_____ and ___5____”, that there aren’t even words for “yes” and “no”. If I consider my upbringing carefully, I find there was nothing discreet about the Chinese language I grew up with, no _____6_____ for the sake of politeness. Having listened to both Chinese and English, I’m ______7____ comparisons between the two languages, as I notice the reciprocal challenges they each present. Even more dangerous is the temptation to view the _ __8__ between different languages and behavior in translation. There is no one word for “yes” or “no”, but not ________9_______to be discreet. ____10______, I would say the Chinese equivalent of answering “yes” or “no” is specific to what is asked.
- There is no one word in Chinese for "yes" or "no" because ______.
- 3. There is no one word in Chinese for “yes” or “no” because _________.
- 中国大学MOOC: The author agrees with the description of Chinese language and culture as being indirect and polite.
- Chinese Hui people are connected with the word “Qing zhen”. What is “Qing zhen” in the language of Chinese?