这句英语是什么意思？
The problem with the global village is all the global village idiots.这句英语是什么意思？ 这句话该有上下文的吧。否则怎么理解全球村的问题是所有的全球村是白痴？ 本帖最后由 愚石 于 2009-4-4 09:23 编辑
都说这是一句比较有名的“格言”，但是我不知道它的趣味在那里，也不知道它的确切意思是什么。
参见 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ginsparg 出自Paul Ginsparg的文章The global-village pioneers：
The use of e-mail became a more regular habit in the early 1980s, first within local computer systems and then via the growing primordial networks. Back at Harvard in that period, I once explained with some effort to my colleague Sidney Coleman the then non-obvious phenomenon of receiving an e-mail message via DECNet from the exterior, in this case from a former Harvard PhD student since moved to Berkeley. Struggling to grasp the far-reaching implications, he furiously paced in a circle and, then, with dawning comprehension, presciently summarized: “The problem with the global village is all the global-village idiots.”
引自：http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/35983
没找到翻译，要准确表达作者的意思恐怕要全部读完这篇文章。 出自Paul Ginsparg的文章The global-village pioneers：
引自：http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/35983
没找到翻译，要准确表达作者的意思恐怕要全部读完这篇文章。 ...
positron 发表于 2009-4-4 09:54 http://www.astronomy.com.cn/bbs/images/common/back.gif
我这样的英语水平，怕是读完那篇文章也搞不清楚。::loveliness:: 本帖最后由 deepgreen 于 2009-4-4 15:08 编辑
额，查了一下这个句子里几个关键词的意思：
Global Village Idiot
One who tries to live in the modern world and make use of technology, but is still basically stupid or ignorant; or one who is colossally stupid, ignorant on grand scale, a sort of überidiot, perhaps the very stupidest person in the world. Formed by combining the term global village with village idiot.
例句：
Did you see the way that Richard used his digital camera to take a picture of his computer screen so that he could make a hard copy of the report he wrote? What a global village idiot.
Global village
World connected by computers
village idiot
1. the most stupid and or ignorant person in a town. also see george bush or republican.
2. George W. Bush, or some other inept human being
3. The stupidest or most idiotic person in a particular village, as elected by the local populace. The kind who would steal all the sugar from an overturned lorry and go door-to-door trying to sell it.
4. The stupidest person in a town, neighborhood, or village (hence the name).
5. A gormless gimp who couldn't find his arse with both hands.
6. Prior to the Industrial revolution, before swarms of people migrated from Small towns, villages, and farming hamlets to large industrial cities and Metropolises, the populations people were around all the time (their community) were so small, that if one person within that community was feeble of mind, they were designated the village idiot.
überidiot
One who is exceptionally stupid or ignorant, a moron on a grand scale. Formed from the German word über as in Nietzsche's concept of the übermensch in Also sprach Zarathustra. Used recently conjoined with other adjectives, as in über cool, übersexy, and über moron.
例句：
It takes that überidiot an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
(urbandictionary)
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