“知识讲座”：关于加拿大的“季节”

黑弟

满大街到处都能见到挂着Oilers旗子的车，让我这个对体育一向没兴趣，迄今为止只看过一次非正式的Hockey比赛的人也无法无视这个让加拿大人疯狂的运动的热潮。
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0 V3 ?( v" U+ T但热归热，我还是不会疯的，只是看到这些旗子，忽然想起最近在看的一本关于加拿大的有趣小书里的一段话，抄上来，给大家补补关于加拿大"季节"的常识性问题：

Canada has two anthems, two languages and two versions of its history. There is an assumption that Canada has only two seasons as well: Winter and Not Winter. But it isn't true.
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% H4 K$ @) c3 qIn fact, Canada has no fewer than six distinct seasons: Tax; Hockey; More Hockey; Still More Hockey; Summer (also known as the July Long Weekend, also known as "Was that it?"); and finally Good God, Isn't the Hockey Season Over by Now?!

In defiance of both Einstein and the space-time continuum, hockey in Canada now lasts sixteen months a year. Both the tax season and summer have been swaped by hockey -- and that's just regular hockey. The playoffs stretch things out even further. Glasiers move faster than the standard NHL season. There are teams with sideburns and disco hairdos still circling the ice trying to finish off the 1974 season. So if you are going to be a Canadian, you will have to get used to this. Hockey is the Muzak of Canadian society. It's always there, in the background, like radiation or white noise. "Da da da da DA DAA......"
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markqiu

哇，对黑蹄姐的崇拜犹如滔滔江水连绵不绝！

- e0 c  S/ q% k0 c' v好像第2段的英文里有个typo艾，不是kockey，当然您要是硬说成是cocky偶也没有办法！厚厚！

黑弟

原帖由 markqiu 于 2006-5-17 22:18 发表
哇，对黑蹄姐的崇拜犹如滔滔江水连绵不绝！
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好像第2段的英文里有个typo艾，不是kockey，当然您要是硬说成是cocky偶也没有办法！厚厚！

+ v2 C) h$ C0 f' c* M/ G赶在一小时的期限到来之前改了两个输入错误，马球眼真尖啊。

不过你好像崇拜错了，这是我拷贝一本书里的话。那本书写的超好玩儿。

markqiu

原帖由 黑弟 于 2006-5-17 22:21 发表
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赶在一小时的期限到来之前改了两个输入错误，马球眼真尖啊。

; J) u) ]5 `7 P7 T% ?7 Y9 K* M0 B3 ], `不过你好像崇拜错了，这是我拷贝一本书里的话。那本书写的超好玩儿。

0 w- ^, c7 t/ F# R# D( l呵呵，有空我也不肯苦读e文书，喝喝啤酒，看看中文的科幻小说多爽啊！

peterpan

偶也给大家补习一哈多伦多的季节,很简单,只分为两个季节:冬季和修路季节

雷锋

能翻译成中文吗？