标题: The Party [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 7-24-2010 12:10 标题: The Party 本文通过一路BBS站telnet客户端发布
Andrew Higgins, Richard McGregor's 'The Party' reveals the secret world of
China's communists. Washington Post, July 25, 2010 (available now).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/23/AR2010072302424.html?sub=AR
("'The Party is like God. He is everywhere. You just can't see him,' a
professor at People's University in Beijing explained")
Note:
(a) hard-headed (adj): "concerned with or involving practical considerations
: SOBER, REALISTIC <some hardheaded advice> <a hardheaded observer of winds
and tides>"
* Another adjective "hard-nosed" means the same.
(b) retro (adj; French rétro, short for rétrospectif retrospective): "
relating to, reviving, or being the styles and especially the fashions of
the past : fashionably nostalgic or old-fashioned <a retro look>"
(c) quaint (adj): "pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar"
(d) Harry Houdini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini
(1874-1926; a Hungarian-American magician and escapologist)
(e) Central Leading Group on Foreign Affairs, CPC
中共中央外事领导小组