有一位语言学家,带了他的研究生,在北京地区作了一番调查。他告诉我们说,“侃大山”应写作“砍大山”。何谓“砍大山”呢?就是带了一把斧头,在深山老林里面东一斧头、西一斧头地乱砍。人们后来便用这个词语表示闲聊。 A linguist, with his graduate student, conducted a survey in Beijing. He told us that “Kan Mountain ” should be written “cut the mountain ”. What is meant by “cutting the mountain”? It is with an ax, an ax in the deep forest, an ax to the west to hack. Later on, people used the word to mean chatting.