中国人对听起来吉祥的数字的执迷总是使我发笑,考虑到汉语中那么多字实际听起来一样。此外,还有一整套同音异义词,似乎只有中国人才能听到。我的生日,5月20日,也是一个好日子,根据美美的说法,因为它能听起来像中国的“我爱你。”除了它真的没有。
Being female, 30 and unmarried in China is not considered lucky. Meimei uses the English counting system because it makes her 29, instead of the Chinese system, where babies are born aged 1 and she is already past it.
作为30岁的未婚女性在中国被认为是不幸运的。美美使用英语计数系统因为这使她才29岁,而不是中国的系统,在婴儿出生时1岁,那样算她早已经过了29岁。
For months her concerned parents have been sending her on blind dates, which inevitably fail to live up to expectations. She delights in regaling me with tales of these boring men, including the latest, a public servant whose sole topic of conversation consists of asking her what she has eaten that day.
几个月来她操心的父母一直让她相亲,这不可避免地无法实现预期。她喜欢和我讲这些无聊男人的故事,包括最新的那位,唯一的话题就是问那一天她吃了什么的公务员。
"One day he wanted to go out for rice porridge. In the evening!" she says.
“有一天他想出去吃稀饭。在晚上!”她说。
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