主题：英语里的中文词源有多少？ -- 新楼
家园 英语里的中文词源有多少？ 前一阵同我的同事聊起来，说起现在英语在中文里大行其道。告诉他们粉丝原意是什么时，统统笑翻。他们也说起有一些英文词是汉语直译而来。给的例子：tofu
但是tofu严格说是源于日语发音，虽然根源是豆腐二字。我不禁想请教河里的诸位大老，有哪些英文词是汉语直译而来？送花感谢!
我能想到的一些如下：
gung-ho
long time no see
taikonaut
家园 有几个 dim sum
guanxi
lose face
家园 Most recent ones YinYang 阴阳, FengShui风水。阴阳在美国可以说已成为日常用语，经常可以听到老美说，而且随着阴阳这个词的，是中国的阴阳思想。
风水更近一些，流传的范围比阴阳可能小一些。但现在美国书店里风水的书是很醒目的。
还有就是气功（Qigong)，也向当流行。
家园 yen 这个词在韦氏词典里的解释是其发音来自广东话的烟，指鸦片。yen在英文里的意思是强烈的愿望。我到觉得中文的“愿”本来就与yen很近。
这个词在英文里用的人不多，有时会在一些文章里见到。
家园 Give you a little colour to see see.
家园 coumian....是个人都知道 家园 Typhoon——台风 在英语里已经是学术用语了，专指太平洋内的超强热带风暴。（专指大西洋内的超强热带风暴的英文词是hurricane）
家园 台风是日元单词 tycoon也是
家园 long time no see可能是来自印第安语 据Oxford English Dictionary,英语最早记载是印第安人的用语。
gung-ho象是来自汉语。但是我实在想不出汉语的原文是什么。
taikonaut还算不上广泛使用的英语吧。
我能想到的例子是Kung Fu。
家园 Gung ho : Gung ho is a term used to mean "enthusiastic" or "dedicated", sometimes excessively so.
The term was picked up by United States Marine Corps Major Evans Carlson from his New Zealand friend, Rewi Alley, one of the founders of the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. Carlson explained in a 1943 interview: "I was trying to build up the same sort of working spirit I had seen in China where all the soldiers dedicated themselves to one idea and worked together to put that idea over. I told the boys about it again and again. I told them of the motto of the Chinese Cooperatives, Gung Ho. It means Work Together-Work in Harmony...." [1]
Later Carlson used gung ho during his (unconventional) command of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion. From there it spread throughout the U.S. Marine Corps (hence the association between the two), where it was used as an expression of spirit and into American society as a whole when the phrase became the title of a 1943 war film, Gung Ho!, about the 2nd Raider Battalion's raid on Makin Island in 1942.
The term, however does not appear in Chinese dictionaries. Rewi Alley's biographer notes that by "a strange quirk of intercultural crossbreeding, gung ho has taken on a life of its own in the English language, with an Anglicised pronunciation of the Chinese" [2]. "Gung ho" (gong l he 2) is a contraction of the phrase "gōngyè hézuòshè (工業合作社), that is, the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (INDUSCO). The two Chinese characters (工合) are translated individually as "work" and "together," but they do not form a phrase.
The linguist Albert Moe studied both the origin and the usage in English. He concludes that the term is an "Americanism that is derived from the Chinese, but its several accepted American meanings have no resemblance whatever to the recognized meaning in the original language" and that its "various linguistic uses, as they have developed in the United States, have been peculiar to American speech." In Chinese," concludes Moe, "this is neither a slogan nor a battle cry; it is only a name for an organization." [3]
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家园 这太多了 到中餐馆看看，什么烧卖、点心、炒面，都是中文过去的啊。