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baxjn

要西。 [s:126]

腊梅

Drivers kick up stink about WC car platesWC汽车牌号遭抵制

BEIJING (Reuters) - Some Beijing motorists are flushed with anger over new license plate numbers that contain the letter combination "WC," saying it gives them "unpleasant images."

Along with "OK," "hello" and "bye-bye," the abbreviation for the Victorian "Water Closet," or toilet, has became one of the most well-known English expressions in China.

Despite being on a jargon（行话）hitlist of Olympic organizers, who plan to replace the "WC" with the more bog-standard "toilet," it remains all-too-vivid for some of the 800 Beijing car owners issued with the initials on their license plates.

"I will not make myself a laughing stock among my friends by adding such a weird abbreviation to my new car," Xinhua quoted car owner Zhang as saying.

Authorities, however, were not sympathetic（有同情心的）.

"We will not change our policy," a policeman in charge of issuing license plates said.

English initials on car-plates have previously proved to be problematic（有问题的）in China, where homonyms（同音异义字）and abbreviations occasionally have unexpected associations in Mandarin.

In Xinyang, Henan Province, "SB" was struck from license plates as the initials are regularly used in Internet chat rooms to denote（表示）Mandarin's arguably most vulgar（粗俗的）profanity（亵渎）, Xinhua said.

Traffic authorities in Haikou, capital of China's palm-fringed province of Hainan, removed the number four from number plates in August as it sounds similar to "death" when pronounced in Mandarin.

Note:

北京推出含有字母WC的汽车号牌后遭到司机们的一致抵抗，认为这会使别人产生不卫生的联想。

腊梅

What would you do before the end of the world? 世界末日你愿意做点什么？

LONDON, (Reuters)-- An asteroid（小行星）is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?

Not surprisingly, the majority of Britons questioned in a survey -- 54 percent -- said they would like to spend it either with or on the phone to their loved ones.

But the survey revealed a strong hedonistic streak -- 13 percent would sit back, accept the inevitable（不可避免的）and reach for a glass of champagne.

Sex appealed to only nine percent while just three percent would turn to prayer.

Two percent intriguingly（有趣的）said they would reach for some fatty food while another two percent decided, with just an hour's life to go, that it was time to start looting.

The survey was commissioned by Ziji Publishing to mark the release of "Cloud Cuckoo Land" by debut novelist Steven Sivell who "uses the classic premise of an impending meteorite collision as a metaphor for threats to the human race."

Note:

如果世界只剩下一个小时，你会做点什么呢？一项调查显示，大多数英国人愿意和爱人一起渡过；百分之十三愿意喝一杯香槟坐着等死；比较搞笑的有百分之二的人想暴食平时不敢吃的长胖食品；还有百分之二的人认为这是抢劫的大好时机。

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引用第1楼baxjn于2007-10-23 14:17发表的  :
要西。 [s:126]

这是中式日语么？？我回中式英语：古的猫宁[p:1]

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