也谈“Long Time No Sea”

摘要

正《外国语》1981年第6期上刊登了陈中绳同志的一篇文章,题为:“Long time no see”是“洋泾浜”吗?文中列举数列,说明“Long time no see”在英语国家已成为一句颇为常见的日常用语。其中第三例是: Then there was the man in the restaurant. ’You’re not eating your fish,’the waitress said to him,’Anything wrong with it?’