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我是一家报社的编辑。一天，一位外国人给我打来电话。他用汉语说他非常喜欢我们的报纸，这让我很高兴。我问："你能告诉我，我们的报纸在哪些方面给你留下了深刻印象吗？”那位外国人说了很多，可是我根本不知道他在说哪国语言。他说的不是汉语，也不是日语。他是在说西班牙语吗？ “你能不能用汉语讲啊？你刚才是在说哪国语言呢?"我问。 那位外国人沉默了一会儿，有些沮丧地说："我是英国人。刚才我跟你说的是汉语。” 噢，天哪！我笑得眼泪都流出来了。“你最好还是说英语吧。”我说。于是他又滔滔不绝地说了起来。考虑到他的汉语水平太低，我就试着用英语跟他交谈。刚说了几句话，他就问我：“你是在说拉丁语吗？你说的话我一句也听不懂。如果你说汉语我会听得更明白。’’ 噢，天哪！“我的英语说得真那么差劲吗？不！我可不觉得。也许他是英国人，听不懂标准的美式英语吧。”我心想。 A Story in Office I’m an editor of a newspaper. One day a foreigner made a call to me. He said in Chinese that he liked our newspaper very much, which made me very happy. Then I said，“ Could you tell me some impression about our newspaper?” The foreigner spoke a lot. But I didn’t know which language he spoke. It was not Chinese, nor Japanese. Was he speaking Spanish? “Could you speak Chinese? Which language did you speak just now?” I asked. After silence for a while, the foreigner answered with a little disappointment. “I’m an Englishman. I spoke Chinese with you just now. ” Oh, my god, the tears came out while I was laughing. “You’d better speak English.” He began to talk and talked a lot. Considering that his Chinese was really poor, I tried to talk with him in English. After a few words, he asked, “Are you speaking Latin? I couldn't catch any word that you said. I can understand a lot if you speak Chi-nese. Oh, my goodness. “Is my English really poor? No, I don't think so. Maybe he is an Englishman who can not understand standard American English,” 丨 said to myself. |
