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CNN主播辱华用词分析

Julia writes:

Sorry to trouble you, but I have a question regarding insulting remarks against the Chinese on April 9 made by Jack Cafferty, one of commentators of CNN. He said: "We're in hawk to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the in Iraq...." What's "in hawk to"? And what does "up to our eyeballs" function?

My comments:

First of all, I never hesitate to comment on an interesting question, or one that I think is of general interest. So therefore, never mind the "trouble", just fire away.

Jack Cafferty called the Chinese "goons and thugs" in his comments, which have drawn the ire from many Chinese bloggers over the Internet. However, "in hawk" is not what that hateful man said. What that hateful man said was "in hock", meaning "in debt". China has been buying American Treasury bonds, which is one of the issues that had led Mr. Cafferty to rave, in full:

"I don't know if China is any different, but our relationship with China is certainly different."

"We're in hock to the Chinese up to our eyeballs because of the war in Iraq, for one thing. They're holding hundreds of billions of dollars worth of our paper. We are also running hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of trade deficits with them, as we continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart."