“上海的历史应当用洋泾浜英语来写”,这是上个世纪初一位混迹上海滩的外国记者面对这座东方现代都市的感叹。时至今日,这句话听来颇有些惊人,自然更多的还是隔膜,那些在延安东路上来来往往、衣着笔挺、能说一口纯正英语的上海人或游客们已未必理解这句话的真正含义。当然,他们 “The history of Shanghai should be written in Pidgin English,” is a sigh of demeanor faced by a foreign journalist who was on the beach in the early part of the last century in the face of this modern, oriental city. Today, this sentence sounds quite a bit alarming, naturally more or diaphragms, those who travel in Yan’an East Road, dressed up, can speak pure English in Shanghai or tourists may not have understood this sentence Real meaning. Of course, they