从“的士”“巴士”说起

• 作 者: 金波生
• 出 处: 咬文嚼字
• 发表日期: 1995年04期
• 关键词: 新奇感 双音节词 四音节词 现代汉语 三音节 多音节词 交际内容 古代汉语 周谷 单音节词

改革开放初期,有两个新词从香港流传到大陆:一个是“的士”(英语taxi的音译词),一个是“巴士”(英语bus的音译词)。当时的人们,一则感到新鲜奇特,记得“文革”后大陆放映的第一部香港影片就叫《巴士奇遇结良缘》,这部影片从内容到片名,都让人产生新奇感;

In the early days of the reform and opening up, two new words spread from Hong Kong to the mainland: one was a taxi (a transliteration word for an English taxi) and a bus was a “bus” (a transliteration word for an English bus). One of the people at that time felt strangely new. I remember that the first Hong Kong film to be shown on the mainland after the “Cultural Revolution” was called the “Buji encounter.” The film has a sense of novelty from content to title.