Before long China began a campaign to get rid of "Chinglish" (Chinese mixed with English). It was decided that Chinglish was a grave illness for China’s development and should be obliterated.
In nearly every part of China, people at home and abroad can see some ridiculous road signs in so-called English. Disappointingly, the language in fact is Chinglish.
Yuan Shixi, a Beijing official taking charge of the campaign, said several months ago "Linguistic (语言) perfection is of more importance with the number of the foreigners rising. "
Not everyone, however, has the scorn (蔑视) of the Beijing government for Chinglish. "One can choose whatever words as long as they can express the exact meaning," explained by a British linguist in an interview.
There exist so many Chinglish examples in the current world that many websites have been established to collect the related phrases, many of which are from English instru
A. removed
B. translated
C. exploited
D. switched
Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing were to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible—there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.In 1830, the U.S. Congress pa
A. He was imaginative
B. He was an Indian
C. He was a white man
D. He wrote down the spoken Cherokee language
Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.
After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible—there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.
In 1830,the US Congress passed
A. on the American continent
B. in the southeastern part of the US
C. beyond the Mississippi River
D. in the western territory
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