新视野大学英语第四册第三版课文及翻译.pdfVIP

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 long