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changye
Posted on: The Black Spectrum of Meaning
February 13, 2010 at 4:51 AMHi shanghai_helios
I don't know if it has a positive meaning, but "黑马" (dark horse) is a good thing, at least, for some guys who took a contrarian approach in gambling, hehe. Here is another example, "黑漆漆的头发" (hei1qi1qi1 de tou2fa, glossy black hair).
Posted on: The Black Spectrum of Meaning
February 13, 2010 at 3:48 AMHi bababardwan
My late grandfather often told me not to gamble, and I take his advice.
Posted on: The Black Spectrum of Meaning
February 13, 2010 at 3:22 AMI bet the next "请问" will be about "红" (red).
Posted on: 中西方幽默
February 12, 2010 at 5:50 AMHi lilac_counselor
没错儿！由于日语中本来就有许多同音词，使得日本人更容易玩谐音文字游戏。但是我劝外国人在日本人面前尽量少开这种玩笑。其实在日本社会中，经常玩谐音的人不太受欢迎，会被人嘲笑，孔夫子也说过“过犹不及也”，对不对？总之，谐音玩笑只不过是一种“冷笑话”。我担心谐音玩笑过多会扰乱“和谐社会”！
Posted on: 考试制度
February 12, 2010 at 4:42 AMHi peterleon74
中韩日大学生对学习的态度可能都差不多一样吧，或者至少可以说跟美国学生“有所不同”。话虽这么说，其实在我的印象中，中国大学生好像比较用功。就小初高中学生而言，我个人估计学习最紧张的还是韩国学生。
以前我听说过，韩国学校基本上没有什么课外活动，所以学生们只好从早到晚拼命学习，加上学校像中国那样每天安排几个小时的强制性晚自习。有些学生因为疲劳过度而在学校晕倒，有的甚至打点滴后继续学习！
韩国父母对子女教育格外认真，为孩子不惜多花钱。据说韩国家庭平均教育支出位于世界第一名，要不第二名。这好像就是起源于儒教和科举的一个传统想法。结果在韩国将近九成的高中生上大学，大学升学率竟然是日本的两倍，但是我很担心这可能会导致“数量第一，质量其次”的情况。
不管怎样，跟韩国/中国比起来日本的学生生活轻松多了。 我承认日本学生一般没有中韩两国学生那么用功，不过日本学生可以享受参加各种各样课外活动的乐趣。举我为例，我年轻的时候是一个懒惰的学生，那时我天天去上学的主要目的就是参加合唱队唱歌，“观赏”一位很漂亮的女学长！
我很怀念那些青春美丽的日子，哈哈！
Posted on: 考试制度
February 12, 2010 at 3:34 AMHi zhou_rui
You are very right. Thanks to "relaxed education system", cram schools in Japan can make more money than ever. Let me show you an example of stupidity of "relaxed education". Circular constant I learned at elementary school was, of course, "3.14", but it was simplified into "3" during "happy relaxed education days".
Posted on: 考试制度
February 11, 2010 at 7:40 AMAlthough I belong to the generation before "relaxed education" in Japan, I must confess that I was "voluntarily" TOO RELAXED at school, hehe. It's too late to regret.....
Posted on: 考试制度
February 11, 2010 at 4:38 AMThe Chinese “科举” system was introduced in Korea and Vietnam, but didn't root in Japan, thankfully. China, Korea and Vietnam abolished “科举” around the turn of the 20th century, but interestingly and ironically, in the late 19th century, Japan "belatedly" employed 科举-like civil servants exams in order to recruit competent personnel, which consequently boosted modernization of Japan.
P/S. Unlike China, Korea and Vietnam, Japan didn't introduce the eunuch system, which is partly because livestock farming was not so important in Japan. In short, Japanese people were not familiar with castration.
Posted on: 考试制度
February 11, 2010 at 4:16 AMHere are etymologies of 榜眼 and 探花 shown in Wikipedia.
「探花」一名在唐代的科举经已出现。当时中进士者会园游庆祝，称「探花宴」。以进士中的年少貌美者为「探花使」，到各名园采摘鲜花，迎接状元。初时第一名称状元，第二、三名俱称为榜眼。至北宋末年，只以第二名为榜眼，第三名则称探花。
Posted on: The Black Spectrum of Meaning
February 13, 2010 at 6:03 AM黑猫白猫论 （by 邓小平） Black Cat White Cat Theory
This is a Chinese version of "Machiavellian", I suppose.
In 1961, at the Guangzhou conference, Deng uttered what is perhaps his most famous quotation: "I don't care if it's a white cat or a black cat. It's a good cat so long as it catches mice." This was interpreted to mean that being productive in life is more important than whether one follows a communist or capitalist ideology. (Wikipedia)