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在中国的老外认为是eventually 谢天谢地2014来了，马上也成了新年流行语(buzz word )。这让在中国生活工作的老外朋友们有点郁闷，因为对他们来说mashang是他们在中国所遇到的最不喜欢的两个短句之一。当他们在中国第一次听到mashang的时候，还去查汉英字典：In the Chinese dictionary the word mashang consists of the Chinese characters ma (马), which is horse and shang（上,）which is on. So literally, mashang means at horse speed (照字面上看，马上是骏马奔驰的高速度). 但是，在现实生活中，这些老外们的体验是：Something coming on horseback could take either 30 seconds or it could take weeks - the basic time frame that mashang conveys. There is no average mashang it could be 2 minutes and it could be two hours. Failing that it could easily take two weeks .(马上没有一个平均的时间长度，可以是30秒，也可能是两个小时，但两个星期也还是属于马上的范畴)。 比如下面的外国朋友与中国服务人员的场景对话： When will our food/plane/messiah(救世主) come? Mashang. Roughly how long? Mashang. 5 minutes? Mashang. 4 days? Mashang. 综合考虑各种用到马上这个词的场合，细心揣摩其含义，有老外专门写文章认为mashang的准确翻译是eventually，就是很肯定，早晚会来的意思。 | 
