國外某超市立牌子禁止顧客敲西瓜 中國網友們炸了!
The humble watermelon. The epitome of summer. But how do you know if it's perfectly ripe? Well, one theory is that if you knock hard on the outside, the sound you hear will help determine if it's ready to eat.
普普通通的西瓜，是夏天的標誌。但是怎樣才能知道西瓜是否熟透呢？有一個辦法：敲一下西瓜，你能根據聲音判斷西瓜是否可以吃了。That theory lead to a huge online debate in China about what kind of people engaged in the art of 'watermelon knocking'?
這種辦法在中國網上引起了熱烈的討論，哪裏的人才懂得“敲西瓜”的技巧？The discussion, which thousands of people contributed to on the Chinese micro blogging site Sina Weibo, was kicked off by an obscure event thousands of miles away in Italy.
遠隔萬里的意大利發生了一件令人費解的事件，引起了成千上萬中國人在新浪微博上的討論。
It all began when a Chinese social media user posted the picture below of a sign in an Italian supermarket asking customers not to knock on the watermelons. The sign was stuck in a crate full of watermelons which read: "please stop knocking on the watermelons, they will not respond to it!"
事情的起因是一位中國網友在網上發了一張照片，一家意大利超市立起牌子，要求顧客不要再敲西瓜了。牌子插在裝滿西瓜的板條箱裏，上面寫着：“請您不要再敲西瓜了，它們是真的不會迴應的！”There is no indication that the supermarket was targeting this message at customers with Chinese heritage. The sign was in Italian not Mandarin. But somehow it was taken as an attack on a practice which some Chinese observers regarded as being unique to their national customs.
目前沒有證據表明這家超市針對的是中國顧客，牌子上寫的是意大利語，而不是中文。但是，一些中國人莫名其妙地將其視爲對中國獨一無二的傳統風俗的攻擊。According to What's On Weibo, the photo was widely shared after Chinese media outlets reported that the notice was aimed directly at Chinese customers. But some social media users were quick to establish that the art of knocking watermelons is not exclusive to China and is in fact universal.
據What's On Weibo報道，一些中國媒體認爲牌子上的警告是針對中國顧客，之後這張照片在網上被頻頻轉發。但是一些網友很快表示，並不只是中國人敲西瓜，很多其他國家也使用這個小技巧。The viral photo was originally posted by a user on Weibo who calls himself 'Isolated Guardian'. He is allegedly a Chinese man living in Milan. The photo has since been removed from his page.
這張廣爲傳播的照片最初是由一名微博賬號爲“孤島守護者“的網友發佈的。據稱，他是一位生活在米蘭的中國人，已經將照片從微博上刪除。
