【词汇大师】今年吹起复古风（2/2）
流行每年都在变，语言亦如是。今年吹起什么风？还看复古。
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主持人对话①"How can our listeners get a handle on some of these retro terms?"
主持人对话②"Or do an Internet search, because a lot of these terms really haven't evolved like slang."
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Balkans
Albanians
Kosovo
Serbs
David Halberstam
Jane
Michael Stern
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201205/20120516012736627156.mp3"Tangos became popular in this country following on what were called animal dances. And animal dances were similar to today's rock dances where you dance pretty much separately. But then tango took over, and in tango you really had to dance in synchronization with your partner.
"So then the phrase it takes two to tango became popular. Now this was kind of a double entendre also, but it's endured as a phrase since the 1920. I once saw during the crisis in the Balkans, when the Albanians accepted a proposal to end the fighting in Kosovo that had already been spurned by the Serbs, a Russian diplomat said 'It takes two to tango.'"
"Well, I think the idea in the case of retro terms is less to study language and more to study social history. So I think there are any number of good books out there on social history. I'm thinking, for example, of David Halberstam's book on the fifties. Jane and Michael Stern put out very good books on pop culture. And in reading them you will, I think, find in case after case after case that you're beginning to see where some of the phrases come from that you hear all the time that are rooted in our history."
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