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仅做参考 好好学习，天天向上 Unit 1 Straddling Cultural Divides With Grace 优雅的跨越文化差异 1 Why is it that you study a foreign language, you never learn the little phrases that let you slip into a culture without all your foreign edges exposed? Every Chinese-language textbook starts out with the standard phrase for greeting people; but as an American, I constantly found myself tongue tied when it came to seeing guests off at the door. An abrupt goodbye would not do, yet that was all I had ever learned from the awful books. So I would smile and nod, bowing like a Japanese and groping frantically for words that would smooth over the visitors leaving and make them feel they would be welcome to came again. In my fluster, I often hid behind the skirts of my Chinese husband’s graciousness. 为什么在你学习一门外语的时候，你从来没有学习一些能够要你不露外国痕迹的融入一种文化。没有本中文课本都以问候的标准短语开头；但是作为一个美国人，我常常发现在我送别客人时，我的舌头被捆住了。一句唐突的再见通常不起作用，那些话语是我在那糟糕的课本中没有学到的。因此我微笑、点头、像日本人一样鞠躬，快速的寻找能够平缓使客人离开同时让他们感觉到他们下次是受欢迎的词语。在慌乱中，我经常躲在我丈夫的娴熟表达的技巧后面。 2 Then finally, listening to others, I began to pick up the phrases that eased relations and sent people off with a feeling of mission not only accomplished but surpassed. 最后，我通过听他人说，开始能够运用一些短语缓和关系，同时不但完成送他人离开同时超额完成任务。 3 Partings for the Chinese involve a certain amount of ritual and a great deal of one-upmanship. Although, I’m not expected to observe or even know all the rulers, as a foreigner, I’ve had to learn the expression of politeness and protest that accompany a leave-taking. 中国的道别包括大量的礼仪以及大量的繁文缛节。作为一外国人，我不被期望遵照或者知道所有的礼仪；但是我还是要学习一些礼貌的表达以及告别时的伴随。 4 The Chinese fee l they must see a guest off to the farthest feasible point—down flight of stairs to the street below or perhaps all the way to the nearest bus stop, I’ve sometimes waited half an hour or more for my husband to return from seeing a guest off, since he’s gone to the bus stop and waited for the next bus to arrive. 中国人认为必须把客人送到尽量远的的地方——送下几个楼层直到地面，或者可能到最近的公交车站。有时候从我的丈夫送客人到他回来，我要等半个小时或者更长的时间，因为他送到车站又等到车离开才回来。 5 For a less import