“You know, the…umm…the thing that washes your clothes?”What is happening to me? I thought. How could I be forgetting English? I thought I was great at English!
“你知道的,嗯~~~就是那个洗衣服的东西?”我当时在想我是怎么了?我怎么能忘了英语呢?我认为我英语挺棒的!
Be great at something, 解释为: ‘to do something very well, or much better than most people.’
A) It equals to ‘excel at/in’
Eg: Rick has always excelled at foreign languages.
B) Out of this world …用来表示“某事某物非常棒”
Eg: What I like the most about Italian cuisine is the pizza, especially Margherita Pizza. It’s truly out of this world.
“You mean the washing machine?”
“你是说洗衣机吗?”
“Yes, that!” I said, relieved to recognize a noun I had known and used for over 20 years. This momentary aphasia freaked me out when it first happened. But in the almost 10 years since this conversation—during which time I moved back to Mexico City as a grad student and then as a journalist—I’ve gotten used to it. I forget some English word or another at least once a day. I’m fluent in Spanish now, and I’m proud of that. But has speaking a second language somehow made me less fluent in my native language?
“对,就是那个!”我说,终于为找到一个我认识并使用了20多年的词感到松了口气。第一次出现这种短暂性失语症的时候吓坏我了。但是这段对话之后的10年时间里(期间我回到墨西哥读研究生然后做了记者)我已经习惯了(这种短暂性失语症)。我每天至少一次会忘记这些或那些英语单词。我现在说西班牙语很流利,我很为之骄傲。但一直说第二语言会让我的母语更蹩脚吗?
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