Pay如果查辞典,毫无疑问是 “支付”的意思,大概欧美人习惯 上总是认为享受了服务就应该付 费。看了电视,理所应当付费,所 以用PayTV示意,如果直译出来, 变成“付费电视”,一点也没有 错。 然而,在我们生活的语言环 境里,到处可以见到的是“收费厕 所”、“收费停车场”、“收费电话” 等等,比比皆是。它说明上了厕所 是要交费的,在这里你停放车是 要收你钱的,打了电话要交钱。 If Pay checks the dictionary, it is undoubtedly the meaning of “paying”, and it is common for European and American people to always think that they should pay for services. When watching TV, you should pay for it, so you can use PayTV to indicate that if you literally translate it into “pay TV,” there is nothing wrong with it. However, in the linguistic environment of our lives, everywhere we can see “pay toilets,” “pay parking,” “pay phones,” and so on. It shows that it takes a fee to go to the toilet, where you park your car to collect your money and make a phone call to pay.