Sunday, 5 July 2009

WHAT IS DISTANCE

    On the weekend, I went to visit the RCA exhibition of graduate design with my friends. Although  many works I can't understand, at lest see the gap between my country's design.

    I also have been unable to understand some people have said that to broaden your horizons. But now I finally understand that the world's great original and creative are valuable.

    Last week we had a classroom quiz, I got a bad score. But I think  it is a beginning, I will take more practice.

    I read a book, it says why in chinese we use the "far" to describe time? Then I translate it .

"Is the "far" as an adjective to describe time? Far represents as distance. But is the time have distance? We can say that from shanghai to shengzheng have 1434 kilometers which is accessible by plane or train to get there. We can say that we go to the convenience stores about 500 meters which take 11 minutes to reach there. We also can say that we are away from the examination about 10 days which we can not by car or by plane or walk to reach. Whether can we come to the future or go back to the past?  The answer is NO. Then why we use the "far" to describe  the distance? But if we don't use the "far" to describe the time, what should we to use describe the time?

    OK,THE ANSWER IS long or short!

    What a magic between the culture difference! In chinese can't search a word to describe the time, we often say distance do something have some time.


    I didn't know what I say. But I know time is left, I should make more efforts on my English learning.

    


1 comment:

  1. Again, nice reflection. Keep it up! Could you also reflect on what you are learning on the course?

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