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。
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