he pointed out that this linguistic mentality helped create such expressions as 「long time no see, 」 a word-for-word translation of a chinese expression that became a mainstay of spoken english.
他指出,这种语言思维方式导致出现了诸如”longtimenosee(好久不见)“这样的表达,这个按中文字面意思翻译的句子经成为英语口语中常用句。