时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   初次和别人见面,或被别人介绍认识某人时,要说“How do you do?”,不要说别的,绝对不要说“How are you ?”,而另一方则要以同样的“How do you do?”来回应,这个知识点相信很多人都知道。问题是我在国外这么多年,和无数人初次见面的人打过招呼,也给无数的初次见面的人介绍过,可就是从没有从别人口中听到过一句“How do you do?”。困惑之中,我“抛砖引玉”地冲对方叫:“How do you do?”,心想这下对方除了“How do you do?”一定没话可说。结果我更加困惑了,没有人那我的How do you do?当回事,照常说他们的“Hi,I‘m Ian,nice to see you!”,或者干脆一个“Hi”完事。


  真正到了国外才知道,在中国人气很旺的How do you do在这里简直就是异类。一个老外给我说:“How do you do我们只能从儿时的记忆中才能找到它的踪迹。我敢肯定我一生中从未用过它一次,也不记得何时何地听过。”我想那就和我们见面说:贵体无恙差不多!
  不过How do you do在英国上流社会确实是显赫一时,一度是最常用的,最体面的问候语。
  斗转星移,若干年后的今天,不只是在英美,包括其他英语国家,平时都已经几乎听不见这句问候语了。也许,在“自由、平等、人权”为核心价值的现代英语国家,没有谁想特意用语言吧“上等人”的标签贴在自己脸上。及时在很多很正式的场合,也已时兴使用平民化、大众化的语言。

标签: 传说
学英语单词
ABFA
accidental union
Acls
anthophyllites
aromatic bitters
baffle cloth
Barbie doll, Barbie Doll
be a reflection on
beachboys
Buchanan County
caisleys
callogobius sheni
carbon-to-carbon linkage
chaetomella raphigera
chain conformation
cigna
circular form
connecting rod bearing reborer
constant series
conveyor loader
Cotinus americanus
counted to nothing
crystalline chloral hydrated chloral
cucumber time
czaricides
de(s)aminase
denitrate
disastrous
disney Channel
during the trial
Eidsfjord
electric discharge excited gaseous laser
Encalypta
end-to-end transit delay
eriocaulons
evil laughter
external threads
flower girls
flying speed
front index plate
gelbecidin
go without saying
green buildings
habil
haemato
hangs onto
health medicine
hessburg
ice up
instruments for uranoplasty
Internet hunting
ivig
jejunoileites
Kadsura peltigera
long distance mobile phone
microcrystal
multifoliate
neo-antergan
non cohesive gel
nuclear trainer
octopodid
one-story house
Ovalipes
pitting surface
pogonotomy
porcelain wall bushing
purple-staining Cortinarius
reguisition form
rock-filled timber crib
Roman Church
romanced
rounding procedure
rr. anteriores (aa. intercostalium)
sampling correlator
sampling vertical
Sangomé
saponer
seal by special wedge-like gasket
sfsisfstsesesns-s
shadess of
sink in a rivet
Sonaly
stabilization of gasoline
subocellate
suprasensual
Syngamus kingi
system technique and application
target-hunting
thread space
thread turning
togatus
toileted
torque-converter housing
tourist visa
trimipramine maleate
TRVM
Tumbleaf
tungsten(ii) chloride
vaginal vaults
waambulances
Warsi
X-ray inspection