第一个故事发生在秘鲁,一位美国妇女在餐馆里用餐 。她问服务员: Excuse me. Where could I wash my hands? 服务员把她带到洗手间,可不巧,正有一些工人在粉刷洗手间的墙壁 。
工人们一看有人要用洗手间,就准备离开 。服务员拦住他们,说: That's Ok. Stay. She only wants to wash her hands. 在英语里,wash my hands实际上是上厕所的委婉说法 。
那个服务员按照字面意思理解,结果闹了笑话 。还有一次,一个留学生在国外的学校第一天上学,心里又兴奋又紧张 。
一个美国人见到一张新面孔,为了表示友好,就问: Hi! What's the good word? 留学生一听到这个,立刻傻眼了,他想,My God! I don't know the good word. I've studied English for years, but no one told me about the good word! 他犹豫再三,想,反正我也不知道,就问问他好了 。于是他吞吞吐吐地问: Hello. What's the good word? 老美听了,很随意地说: Oh, not much. 这下,这个留学生就更吃惊了! 原来,What's the good word? 在美语里,是一句问候语,意思是“你还好吗?”但问话的人并不指望你把遇到的高兴的事情都一一告诉他,只是打个招呼而已 。
但这个留学生以为对方真的在问什么是Good word,所以闹了笑话,不过还好,也算给他歪打正着了 。下面的故事就更有意思了 。
一次,一个美国公司的管理人员给公司一个驻外分部发了一份传真,要求对方把职员 。
There are still many problems of environmental protection in recent years. One of the most serious problems is the serious pollution of air, water and soil. the polluted air does great harm to people's health. The polluted water causes diseases and death. What is more, vegetation had been greatly reduced with the rapid growth of modern cities. To protect the environment, governments of many countries have done a lot. Legislative steps have been introduced to control air pollution, to protect the forest and sea resources and to stop any environmental pollution. Therefore, governments are playing the most important role in the environmental protection today. In my opinion, to protect environment, the government must take even more concrete measures. First, it should let people fully realize the importance of environmental protection through education. Second, much more efforts should be made to put the population planning policy into practice, because more people means more people means more pollution. Finally, those who destroy the environment intentionally should be severely punished. We should let them know that destroying environment means destroying mankind themselves. 保护环境 目前环保还存在着许多问题 。
最严重的问题就是空气、水和土壤的严重污染 。污染的空气对人类的健康十分有害 。
污染的水引起疼病,造成死亡 。更有甚者,随着现代社会的迅速扩建,植被大大的减少 。
为了保护环境,各国政府做了大量的工作 。采用了立法措施控制大气污染,保护森林资源和海洋资源,制止任何环境污染 。
因此,在当今的环保中政府起着最重要的作用 。我的看法是,为了保护环境,政府应当采取更具体的措施 。
首先,应当通过教育的方法使人们充分謒到环境保护的重要性 。第二,应更加努力把计划生育政策付诸实施,因为人口多就意味着污染严重 。
最后,要严惩那些故意破坏环境者 。使他们破坏环境就是毁灭人类自己 。
=====================================================================英语常识:English words are strings of letters together, so we had some different characteristics of Chinese written characters. Here's some examples of the little knowledge about the English words to increase the recitation of interest.1, the number of English words: For the exact number is difficult to calculate. However, linguists generally believed that the number of English words, if you do not include specific words, names, place names, etc., about 170,000 or so. However, there are about 70,000 words of which are already or about to be eliminated, so less volume is 10 million.2, consecutive letters: English word, the word generally refers to the inherent (non-derived synthetic), the same letters do not have three consecutive occurrences, but if we add before the suffix to the word or compound word formed to difficult to determine. Such as the governess (Nvzong Du) into governessship (Nvzong Du duties), there have been three consecutive scenes of the same letter was.3, simultaneous five vowels: the English alphabet in a, e, i, o, u five vowels, but this five-letter words which appear in the same time is very rare, but it did. If the order according to their inherent appear in the same word, it is less. abstemious (moderate) is one. If you do not by their inherent order, they are consecutive words are: Rousseauian (Rousseau), Rousseau was a great French thinkers.4, the longest word: the word should be to play the longest, it is not fixed. Some professional and technical aspects of the word, sometimes up to dozens of letters, only the knowledge of experts in the industry. The words used in the longest peacetime is antidisestablishmentarianism (endorsed state support for the church), the 28 letters.5, usually we see the long point of the letter words often repeated, as there are repeated examination in a, i, n. the inherent word, longest word without repeating letters is uncopyrightable (can not get copyright protection ), a total of fifteen letters.6, the majority of English sentences are repeated letters, and can not contain all the 26 letters. The following sentence contains the 26 letters are The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (A quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.) This sentence contains 26 letters is the shortest sentence in it? Before this sentence appears in the following may be: Brick quiz whangs a jumpy veldt fox. (Tests on bricks stumped a South African grassland fox jumps).7, the Chinese have palindromic phenomenon, then in English as well? Look at a word: It is said that there is a criminal, said: "Because I live in upside down (live), so the result of sin (evil). To live upside down to become evil, is sent province. English sentence the。
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