受刘钢博主<<哪些来自中国的英语单词影响了世界？>>的启发, 补充两个, 一个属于文化系列而另一个属于科学范畴。

۞大英百科有下面一段对麻将的介绍

mah-jongg, game of Chinese origin, played with tiles, or pais, that are similar in physical description to those used in dominoes but engraved with Chinese symbols and characters and divided into suits and honours. A fad in England, the United States, and Australia in the mid-1920s, the game was revived in the United States after 1935 but never regained its initial popularity. In the United States the official governing body is the National Mah Jongg League, founded in 1937.

The game is probably of 19th-century origin. Before World War I each Chinese province had its own style of play and ............

美国在1937年曾经成立了国立麻将联盟, 该联盟现在仍继续运行http://www.nationalmahjonggleague.org/。

疑问:不知道说麻将游戏起源于19世纪中叶的说法是否靠谱?

۞ yin and yang (yin-yang)

有意思的是早已有华裔学者把编码一个转录因子的基因定名为阴阳1号了(Shi Y, Seto E, Chang LS, Shenk T. Transcriptional repression by YY1, a human GLI-Krüppel-related protein, and relief of repression by adenovirus E1A protein. Cell. 1991 Oct 18;67(2):377–388.), 老外们在此基础上发表了不少论文, 现在生命科学领域内阴阳概念的使用已经相当普遍了, 下面随意挑了几篇最近的文献。

民族的, 特色的, 就是世界的!

The yin and yang of nitric oxide in cancer progression.

Burke AJ, Sullivan FJ, Giles FJ, Glynn SA.

Carcinogenesis. 2013 Mar;34(3):503-12. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgt034. Epub 2013 Jan 25.

The yin and yang of repair mechanisms in DNA structure-induced genetic instability.

Vasquez KM, Wang G.

Mutat Res. 2012 Dec 3. doi:pii: S0027-5107(12)00221-7. 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2012.11.005. [Epub ahead of print][PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Mitochondria and mitophagy: the yin and yang of cell death control.

Kubli DA, Gustafsson ÅB.

Circ Res. 2012 Oct 12;111(9):1208-21. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.112.265819

The yin and yang of cannabis-induced psychosis: the actions of Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol in rodent models of schizophrenia.

Arnold JC, Boucher AA, Karl T.

Curr Pharm Des. 2012;18(32):5113-30.

The yin and yang of viruses and interferons.

Wang BX, Fish EN.

Trends Immunol. 2012 Apr;33(4):190-7. doi: 10.1016/j.it.2012.01.004. Epub 2012 Feb 7.

Mitochondria and mitophagy: the yin and yang of cell death control.

Kubli DA, Gustafsson ÅB.

Circ Res. 2012 Oct 12;111(9):1208-21. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.112.265819.

The Yin and Yang of non-neuronal α7-nicotinic receptors in inflammation and autoimmunity.

Filippini P, Cesario A, Fini M, Locatelli F, Rutella S.

Curr Drug Targets. 2012 May;13(5):644-55.

The Yin and Yang of Nicotine: Harmful during Development, Beneficial in Adult Patient Populations.

Counotte DS, Smit AB, Spijker S.

Front Pharmacol. 2012;3:180. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2012.00180.

Overexpression of Yin Yang 1 in the pathogenesis of human hematopoietic malignancies.

Bonavida B, Huerta-Yepez S, Baritaki S, Vega M, Liu H, Chen H, Berenson J.

Crit Rev Oncog. 2011;16(3-4):261-7.

Oncogenic potential of yin yang 1 mediated through control of imprinted genes.

Thiaville MM, Kim J.

Crit Rev Oncog. 2011;16(3-4):199-209.