中西时间观念的对比分析报告

Quotations from Poets
“Tim时e 间is 是the一d切evo事ur物er的of 吞ev食er者yth。ing—.” 奥—维O特vid
Roman Poet 43 B. C.
时间是窃走青春的ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ秘
“盗T贼ime。is the subtle thief of
youth.” — 弥-尔- M顿ilton
The Blockbuster
• American lifestyles show how much people respect the time of others. When people plan an event, they often set the time days or weeks in advance. Once the time is fixed, it takes almost an emergency to change it. If people want to come to your house for a friendly visit, they will usually call first to make sure it is convenient.
Time is compared to water
Time is a river, a torrent, a waterfall. Time is marching, flying and flowing.
Time and tide wait for no man
Time lost is never found again
pocket planners
time tables
on time
agendas
appointments
in time
deadlines time managements
plans
schedules
calendars
accountings
Americans seem tied to the clock.
Reflections of Time Concept
Linear extension and circular rotation 线伸环旋
Western: extension, sense of time shortage, future valued Chinese: rotation, sense of time abundance, past cherished
Time crept;
When I was a boy and laughed and talked,
Time walked.
Then when the years saw me a man,
Time ran.
But as I older grew,
Time flew.
Soon, as I journey on, I'll find time gone.
春与秋其代序。 （屈原：《离骚》） Spring alternates
with autumn.
失之东隅，收之桑榆。 What is lost at sunrise can be regained at sunset. — 冯异
Idiom: 时来运转 The favor of the time cycle brings good luck.
Do you love life? Then do not waste time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
American sense of time shortage
Subjective time and objective time
Americans see time as a valuable resource. Maybe that's why they are fond of the expression, "Time is money."
枯木逢春犹再发 A withered tree comes to life again After extreme bad luck, comes good luck
Americans believe time is a limited resource, they try to conserve and manage it. People do all they can to squeeze more life out of their time.
Guy Pentreath (1902 - 1985)
May Christ have saved my soul, by then,
Amen.
Time is like a circle
日月光华，旦复旦兮。 (《尚书大传》上卷）
The sun alternates with the moon;
Days come one after another soon.
“T时im间e步is伐m如os此t 迅bri疾sk，a令nd人 g眼id花dy缭-p乱ac。ed--.—”Sh莎ak士es比pe亚are
English Playwright (1564 – 1616)
English Poet (1608 – 1674)
Time’s Paces
When I was a babe and wept and slept,
To outsiders, Americans seem tied to the clock. People in other cultures value relationships more than schedules. In these societies, people don't try to control time, but to experience it. Chinese, for example, view time as a cycle. They find it easier to "go with the flow" than Americans, who like plans to be fixed and unchangeable.