前几年来过中国的人,如果今日重访,定会发现各大城市比以前整洁了,秩序也有所改善。像北京城里的繁华地区王府井大街,已经很少有人乱扔废物或者随地吐痰了。这种从旧中国沿袭下来的坏习惯,解放初期曾经一度显著减少,后来经过‘文化大革命’的十年动乱才又在公共场所重新出现。每天上 If people who visited China a few years ago revisit today, they will find that major cities are more tidy than before and their order has also been somewhat improved. Like the bustling Wangfujing Street in Beijing, few people have littered or spit. This bad habit, inherited from old China, was markedly reduced in the early days of liberation and then re-emerged in public places after a decade of turmoil that followed the ’Cultural Revolution.’ Every day