翻译一下中文译成英文高手进为什么说买东西而不说买南北呢？“买东西”的由来1>南宋大学者阿朱熹，一次造访其友盛温如，适逢盛手挎篮子上街。朱问：“此刻你欲何往？”盛答：

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翻译一下 中文译成英文 高手进为什么说买东西而不说买南北呢？ “买东西”的由来 1>南宋大学者阿朱熹，一次造访其友盛温如，适逢盛手挎篮子上街。朱问：“此刻你欲何往？”盛答：“上街买东西。”“买东西？”朱熹很奇怪，又问：“那么南北也可以买吗？”盛曰：“不可，我这篮子只装得金类木类，水类火类是装不得的。”朱熹听罢连连点头。原来古代的“五行”木金水火土，是与东西南北中相配的。其东方属木、西方是金、南方属火、北方属水。 2>据说在唐朝长安商业非常繁华，城内有两个大市场经营服装珍宝之类。一个俗叫东市一个西市，人们经常东市买完西市买。最后就简称去买东西啦！ 3>按照五行观念推衍，东西南北中，与金木水火土具有两两对应的关系，即东代表金，西代表木，南代表水，北代表火，中代表土。而古人认为，我们生活中使用的所有物体差不多都是由金和木两物质做成的，因此，顺乎其然地便把"东西"二字当成了用来泛指物质、物体的代名词了。现在，随着科学技术的进步，今人对世界的认识早已有了新而更新的一次次飞跃，但这一语言现象却被一直沿用了下来。

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Why not buy things that do buy a north-south? "Buy things" the origin of 1 "A Southern Song scholar Zhu Xi, a visit to her friend Sheng Wen for example, falls on the streets basket Sheng hand collapse. Zhu Q: "At the moment you Yuhe go?" Sheng replied: "take to the streets to buy something." "Buy stuff?" Zhu Xi's very strange and asked: "Then the North-South can also buy it?" Sheng said: "can not, my basket, pretend to be gold class wood, water, fire class is loaded class not to. "Zhu Xi's listening to again and again nodded. The original ancient "Five Elements" wood gold water and fire earth, with the East and West in the match. The east belongs to wood, the West is gold, the South is a fire, the North is water. 2 "It is said that business is very prosperous Tang Dynasty, Chang'an, the city has two major market operators clothing treasures and so on. Is called a secular city of Taitung City 1 West, people often buy East Market After buying the West City. Finally on the short shopping! 3 "in accordance with the concept of five elements, strong east to west north, south, and has a 22、corresponding relationship between the East on behalf of Golden West on behalf of wood, on behalf of Southern Water, the North on behalf of the fire, represent the earth. The ancients believed that the use of our lives, almost all objects are made from gold and wood two substances, therefore, comply with the wishes of its natural to set "stuff" as the word used to generally refers to material objects, a synonym for a . Now, with the progress of science and technology, modern people's understanding of the world already have new and updated once a second leap, but this linguistic phenomenon has been followed down. 不好翻译，大概就是这样！