2017年职称英语 考试 报名-2017职称英语综合类阅读精选：TheSubjectofSmiling

The Subject of Smiling微笑问题

1.In the spring of this year, a Beijing television channel produced a program called, "Smile." It televised the reaction of people on the street when confronted with a smile from an unknown person, chosen at random. Most people were either surprised or seemed a little worried. A few more enthusiastic people even muttered that the person who smiled was "crazy". The number of people who actually returned the smile could be counted on one hand.

1、这一年春天，北京电视台以《微笑》为题作了一档街头调查节目：请一些人在街道上对着遇到的行人微笑，以观察行人的反应。结果多数人现出惊讶或紧张的表情，更激烈些的则骂一声“神经病”。回报以微笑的路人屈指可数。

2.It seems Chinese people don't really like to smile and that's the impression they convey to the world.

2、中国人不太爱笑，这差不多是个国际印象。

3.What is not understood by outsiders is that smiling in China is a very meaningful and subtle thing. Around 781 BC, there was a monarch called Zhou You Wang, who cared little for ruling his country. Instead, he much preferred to chase women. One of his Ministers gave the Emperor a beautiful woman, whom the Emperor really liked, except for the fact that she would never smile. After trying countless different methods to get her to smile, a Minister came up with an idea. He suggested the Emperor light the twenty or so signal fires which were spread around the capital city to warn people when the country was in danger of war. The Minister thought the fires would summon the Warlords and Dukes to bring their armies to the capital and, when the woman saw the chaos caused by tricking the armies, she would surely laugh.

3、外国人不明白，笑在中国是一件内涵颇深的事情。大概在公元前781年，一位称作周幽王的君主，酷好美女，无心国政。有大臣便将一名美女献给他。周幽王非常喜欢她，但这个美女从未笑过。百般招数无效后，有一大臣出主意让周幽王点燃烽火。京城附近有20多座烽火台，这是为战争时向诸侯求救而建立的信号台。大臣认为诸侯见到烽火就会赶至京城，美女看到兵“慌”马乱的情形，一定会笑出来。

4.The Zhou Emperor tried this idea and, sure enough, it made the beautiful woman laugh. Later, when a real enemy came and the Emperor lit the signal fires, the Generals didn't respond, thinking it was just another trick. Thus, the Emperor and his beautiful woman were both captured. Today, the Chinese refer to this story of Emperor Zhou as, "Signal fires joke with the Generals".

4、周幽王照此办理，果真引得美人一笑。只是后来外敌来犯，周幽王的烽火没能把曾受骗的诸侯召来，至使自己命丧敌手。那位美女也被敌人掳了去。这一桩君王逗美女一笑的故事，就是今天中国人所知的“烽火戏诸侯”。

5.There are four main Chinese classical stories that deal with this problem of smiling. The books are A Dream of Red Mansions, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Journey to the West. The main character in A Dream of Red Mansions is a young master, no older than 15 or 16, named Jia Baoyu. When trying to get a servant girl to smile, he prepared a bunch of paper fens for her to rip. When the servant heard the ripping sound, she couldn't contain her happiness and broke into a smile. The mother of the young master took a dislike to the girl and found an excuse to cause her death.

5、中国有四大古典名著（《红楼梦》、《三国演义》、《水浒》、《西游记》)，《红楼梦》中的男主人公是年龄不过十五六岁的王府少爷贾宝玉。这少爷为讨婢女的笑脸，备下大堆的纸扇给她撕，这女子听到撕扇声就乐不可支。结果是少爷的母亲看不惯这位婢女的张扬，找了个碴，置她于死地。

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