总有那么些英文词 连母语者都觉得懵逼.docVIP

小编给你一个美联英语官方免费试听课申请链接： /test/waijiao.aspx?tid=16-73675-0 美联英语提供：总有那么些英文词 连母语者都觉得懵逼 如今在说英语的人群中，非母语者的数目已经渐渐要超过母语者了，为此那些母语为英语的人们亚历山大——如何能够在不说俗语和俚语的情况下顺畅沟通，这是个问题…… BBC总结了在交流中最令人困扰的那些单词、词组，以及这些问题所产生的困扰： It’s all Greek to me 我对此一窍不通。 “Any native speaker talking to a majority of native speakers will tend to assume that everyone, even the non-native speakers in the room, can understand everything they say regardless of speed of speech and idioms used,” Mike Conroy commented on our Facebook post. 麦克·康罗伊在脸书上说：“任何母语者在和大多数人说话的时候会倾向于认为所有人——甚至是非母语者——都在同一个‘房间’里，并且无论语速多快、用了多少俗语他们都能够理解他们所说的一切内容。” Some of the words that get lost in translation: torch versus flashlight, spanner versus wrench. Phrases such as “the umpteenth time” and “watching paint dry” and “taking the mickey,” tripped some readers up, while even subtle differences in spelling, such as ‘centre’ and ‘center’ caused trouble. 有些词是不可翻译的：torch还是flashlight，spanner还是wrench。“the umpteenth time” ，“watching paint dry” ，“taking the mickey”，这些词组常常会让读者困扰不已，还有只是在拼写上有些许差异的单词如‘centre’ 和‘center’也让人产生困惑。 “During a holiday in the US I had more problems with people understanding my [British] English than I do with my colleagues and customers on mainland Europe,” wrote Ray Gloster. “In Europe, I find it does help to tailor your choice of words, selecting Latin or Germanic origin words from the English vocabulary.” 雷·格洛斯特写道：“有一次去美国度假就遇到了许多困难，那里的人们无法理解我的英式英语，比我无法理解欧洲大陆来的同事和客户的英语更甚。在欧洲，我发现斟词酌句是很有帮助的——选择那些带有拉丁语或者德语词根的英语单词能够使得交流更顺畅。” “[British] English and American English are full of instances of this,” commented Martin Hawkins. “Im a Brit living in the US and the phrase two cultures separated by a common language is very appropriate.” 马丁·霍金斯评论道：“英式英语和美式英语中差别比比皆是。作为一个住在美国的英国人， 我觉得‘一种语言，两种文化’这个短语非常恰当。” The hardest adaptations 最艰难的适应 Martin Searle, a native English speaker living in Asia, noted three key lessons he had learned for adapting his mother tongue to his new surroundings: “One: never use a negative question such as you didnt go to th