2009年网络最流行的10句话

　　4. We can't go into detail on this matter.

　　这事儿不能说太细。

　　This quote is the only one picked for the list that didn't come originally from the Web, but rather from the real world. A government official evading a journalist's persistent question about the annual total of car loans repaid in Tianjin simply said, "We can't go into detail on this matter," which apparently Netizens found really laughable.

　　这句话是唯一来自现实世界而不是网络的。一位政府官员在回答《焦点访谈》记者"天津市每年要偿还公路建设的贷款量有多大"的问题时，说出了"这事儿不能说太细",网民们觉得这句话很有意思，于是流传甚广。

　　The rest of them, he goes over quickly:

　　剩下的流行语，我们快速地浏览一下：

　　5. Life is like a coffee table: it's got tea sets and dinnerware all over it. （beiju悲剧 is a homophone for tragedy, and dinnerware 餐具， a homophone for disaster 惨剧）。

　　生活就像一个茶几，上面摆满了杯具和餐具。（杯具是"悲剧"的同音词，餐具是"惨剧"的同音词。）

　　6. It's not that the story ended badly; it's that we expect too much of the story.

　　不是故事的结局不够好，而是我们对故事要求太多。