FB（腐败）用品是什么？

wherestip wrote:
The terms "conspicuous consumption" or "splurge" come to mind after reading all the above posts ...

Kevin Yang wrote:



Hello, Steve and all

Great discussion!

Like you, I was also wondering about "how to say it in English" as soon as I saw something like this. Thank you for bringing our attentions to it with your great suggestions. I like your suggestions very much, especially the word "splurge".

What came into my mind is “Commodities for the corruptive lifestyle”. Other related words for consideration are "spree" (which is used to describe doing something within a short period of time with outrageous excitement, such as "shopping spree", "killing spree", etc.), and “living corruptively” (I was inspired by the expression "living dangerously").

As you may see, the challenge in translating such expressions is how to reflect in the translation the layer of the unique social phenomenon that is happening in China. The young people have mixed feelings of mocking, imitating, and joking with the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule in exposing and denouncing such lifestyle. As Xiaoping pointed out, it is a love and hate feeling.

Kevin

Idiom: live life in the fast lane

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To have a lifestyle full of high excitement, expensive enjoyment and glamour.

Wenjer Leuschel wrote:

看来颓废和腐败还真是同义词呢。

Richard Dawkins 的书 The Blind Watchmaker 第八章谈到“性择”：“虽然达尔文特别强调存活与生存奋斗，他很明白生存与存活只不过是达到目的的手段。那个目的就是繁殖。一只鸟就算活到高寿，要是不能繁殖，也不能把它的体质特征遗传下去。不论什么体质特征，只要能使动物顺利生殖，天择都会青睐，存活只是生殖战斗的一部分。在这场战斗的其它部分里，吸引异性的个体才能成功。达尔文看出了这一点，要是一只雄性环颈雉、雄孔雀、雄天堂鸟拥有极为性感的装饰，即使必须以生命为代价，都可能在死前将性感特征遗传下去，因为它繁殖的机会非常高。”

要颓废、腐败地生活，得具备某些条件；能够摆出“我就是可以颓废、腐败地生活”，说来也是一种社会性的性感特征。这跟 Dawkins 解说的情况很相像：“偏爱长尾雄孔雀的雌孔雀受天择青睐，只因为其他的雌孔雀也有同样的口味。雌性中意的雄性品质究竟有什么价值，没关系也不相干。这样看来，流行音乐迷抢购某一张唱片，只因为那张唱片已经跻身 Top 20 排行榜，其实与雌孔雀无异。”

会流行颓废、腐败，应该不是没有社会心理原因的。

Companies exported contaminated wheat gluten, rice protein


Associated Press
Updated: 11:31 p.m. CT May 8, 2007

BEIJING - Managers from two companies which exported contaminated wheat gluten and rice protein blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats in the United States have been detained, state media reported Wednesday.

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“The two companies illegally added melamine to the wheat gluten and rice protein in a bid to meet the contractual demand for the amount of protein in the products,” the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, was quoted as saying in a statement by Xinhua News Agency.

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Xuzhou Anying managers have said they have no idea how the melamine got into the gluten, which they say was sourced from other firms and sold to a third company that exported it to the U.S.

However, suspicions were raised when the company was found to have posted an advertisement on the Web site of online market place 999ce.com in March seeking to buy melamine.

wherestip wrote:

... under chance's 书香世界:

http://www.proz.com/post/377582#377582

I figured I'd give Chance a break and at least post this stuff in a folder that has the word 腐败 in it I hope Aaron doesn't mind.

chance wrote:

我发现你经常能找到以前的帖子，还挺有耐心

pkchan wrote:

Steve 兄，兩頭名種愛犬無恙吧！

pkchan wrote:

Steve 兄，兩頭名種愛犬無恙吧！PK從不養貓狗，但感到他們同樣需要關心與愛護。記得移民初，鄰居的德國狼狗特別鐘情PK，每晚都陪PK走下山，到車站接陳太，老是乖乖坐在PK腳下，接了車，又默默無語陪PK回家，沒有要求什麼，可能只要PK作他的伴侶，我也心安。

[Edited at 2007-05-09 16:46]

Shaunna wrote:

多好的狗啊。

忍不住要夸夸。

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th century American painter. ....
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Many of his works appear overly sweet in modern critics' eyes, especially the Saturday Evening Post covers, which tend toward idealistic or sentimentalized portrayals of American life—this has led to the often-depreciatory adjective Rockwellesque.

wherestip wrote:



It certainly reads like a Norman Rockwell moment.

Shaunna wrote:

Didn't get it, so dug on.

ll] saw an America of such pride and self-worth. My vision is very similar to his, for the most part because of him."

wherestip wrote:

Sorry, Shaunna. Here's a bit more ...

http://www.answers.com/topic/norman-rockwell