时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:和老外聊天地道口语


英语课

Paige: how's your time spent in the United States?

Kyle: well, pretty good.

P: I'm glad to hear that. What impressed you most?

K: well, the cultural differences impressed me most.

P: you mean we Chinese think differently from the Americans?

K: that's right, quite different. One day one of my American friend looked pale, so I asked him whether he was sick or not. But he was reluctant 1 to answer my question.

P: what's weird 2.

K: and what's more, when he told me he had caught a cold for several days, I suggested him to go to the hospital as soon as possible.

P: you really cared about your friend.

K: sure I am. But he responded by saying'what do you mean?'.

P: I'm confused. Why did he say that?

K: I felt the same at first. Later he told me that I'd better not give him any suggestions when he was sick. Offering unsolicited help or advice is like showing sympathy to the weak or the poor. Back in China, helping 3 others is always regarded being kind.

P: absolutely. Now I understand why he responded that way.

 



1 reluctant
adj.不愿意的;迟迟不合作的;不同意的
  • The workers are reluctant to be ordered around by the employers.工人们不愿被雇主们差来遣去地随便使唤。
  • I am reluctant about asking him to do this.我极不愿意让他去干此事。
2 weird
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
3 helping
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
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ad valorem duty system
addition standard
aldair
Arsaphen
awrap
baryta-green
be down for the count
beautybush
buffering rubber ring
buniesia sarmienti
C. G. O.
cable pole line
Caesalpinia nuga
canliflower-like CVD diamond crystal
carteron
Chacra de Piros
chain formation
cholophein
clean-up efficiency
close out a long position
controlled non-directive probing
coyest
curb speculation
cutting wheels
database location
dispersion-unshifted single mode fiber
dodecandrian
feelingful
final turndown
fixed terminal time
fluorapatite laser
four-point starting box
fputchar
funding bond
gas projectile
geocosmology
gilted
group rcaction
hackle
hand-rolleds
internal vacuum
Islamitic
jet interference
knee-length
land sculpture
leaf clay
lepismas
liquefied petroleum gas automobile
lithium cyanoplatinite
lk
Mananjary
manoptoscope
Mazārī, Kowtal-e (Mazārī Pass)
Messinese
metes-and-bounds survey
michaelis
monodactylus
neuroctenus taiwanicus
neuromythology
noncallable notes
NR for decay
oil-polluted
panzerotti
papular angiokeratoma
phosphatic calculus
plane stress analysis
pollin
post-constitutional
prevacuumizing
Provencaux Bank
pwincess
Ransbach
repentless
rickburner
rogozhin
route diversion
Schefflera tenuis
sclerenchymatous fibers
self fertilisation
selmi
shanshu
single premium
sisal fibre
standby system
station for popularizing agricultural technique
suckeners
tea booth
telegram in cipher
tensor quantity
threaded mandrel
through connection filter
tie-break
Tom Finney
ulnae
Ultroxim
user action routine
variance instance id
vauquelinites
wachet
wetting effect
White, L.
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