a比如“a bull in a china shop”喻指莽撞而笨拙的人,bull 在英语俚语中还可以指警察或者侦探,在中国文化里,牛是十二生肖之一。在汉语中说某人牛是一句赞扬的话,经常可说牛人。 For instance “a bull in a china shop” Yu Zhi rash and the clumsy person, bull also may refer to the police or the...
George Steiner, archly conservative, still saw the essential nightmare of Nazi Germany in the way language became only cliche. But cliches today have taken on a new form. “Lyotard’s definition of the event as a force that resists the processes of signification within a system is similar to...