新视野大学英语第四册第三版课文及翻译(20190411122432).docxVIP

Unit 5 Speaking Chinese in America 在美国说中文 Once, at a dinner on the Monterey Peninsula, California, my mother whispered to me confidentially: Sau-sau (brothers wife) pretends too hard to be a polite recipient! Why bother with such nominal courtesy? In the end, she always takes everything. 有一次，在加州蒙特雷半岛上用餐时，我母亲私下悄悄地对我说： “嫂嫂想做个彬彬有礼的客人，但是装得 太厉害了！何必费劲讲究形式上的客套呢？到最后她还是什么都要。 ” My mother acted like a waixiao, an emigrant, no longer patient with old taboos and courtesies. To prove her point, she reached across the table to offer my elderly aunt from Beijing the last scallop from the garlic seafood dish,