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contemporary Chinese people also pay attention to look forward, ―past‖ also take an important role in people’s deep heart. On the other hand, people hold a different attitude on the predecessors. This is because the clear difference in the attitude to the word ―old‖. So you must use some euphemism, such as ―senior‖ ,―aged‖, ―veteran‖,“ citizen‖, ‖golden ager‖, ―elder‖, etc. All these reflect the American’s ―futureoriented‖ conception of time indirectly. They think that past thing are just the past, they never treat past thing as a good thing. Old means maturity, full of wisdom and experience “old” means “useless”, “hopeless”, Old means useless, hopeless, fragile, approaching to death 昨天 今天 明天 昨天 今天 明天 In The Silent Language, Hall lays emphasis on the voices of time. ―Time talks. It speaks more plainly than words. The message it conveys es through loud and clear. Because it is manipulated less consciously, it is subject to less distortion than the spoken language. It can shout the truth where words lie.‖ Edward Twitchell Hall Changes With the acceleration of the China39。 time has a close relation with the nature. Time is really fleeting, but it also circle like the constantly changing of four seasons, and the sun and the moon cycle alternately, it will e back soon。s why they are fond of the expression, Time is money. American sense of time shortage deadlines plans appointments pocket planners calendars accountings on time in time time managements time tables agendas schedules Americans seem tied to the clock. 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 e to your house for a friendly visit, they will usually call first to mak