时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:王强口语 第二册


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Sense of Personal Space

Americans have a strong sense of personal space and usually don't like to be touched by others.  Other than shaking hands or giving a hug or a kiss on the cheek when saying hello and goodbye, grownups generally don't touch each other.  Most touching 1 is thought of in a sexual way and makes Americans uncomfortable if they don't want that kind of relationship.  For example, if a Russian man affably leans over and puts his hand on his American friend's thigh 2, the American man might freak out a little, thinking the Russian is gay and coming on to him.  For the same reason, straight American men don't ever hold hands with their male friends when they walk down the street.  American women are generally not as homophobic as some American men are, but you still don't usually see two female friends holding hands.

Latin Americans might think Americans seem unfriendly because they aren't physically 3 open in this way.  In fact, many Americans think it would be nice to show their affection more freely, but they feel too uncomfortable when someone invades their personal space.  So Americans stand a few feet apart when they're talking.  If someone stands too close or breathes in the other person's face, Americans feel a little offended and try to move back a bit.

It's normal for Americans to affectionately touch children.  But since America has recently been going through a huge scandal over child sexual abuse, which has become a very touchy 4 subject. People have to make sure that their affection toward children could not be considered in the least sexual.  And teachers should be especially careful that they don't give the wrong impression.



1 touching
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
2 thigh
n.大腿;股骨
  • He is suffering from a strained thigh muscle.他的大腿肌肉拉伤了,疼得很。
  • The thigh bone is connected to the hip bone.股骨连着髋骨。
3 physically
adj.物质上,体格上,身体上,按自然规律
  • He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
  • Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
4 touchy
adj.易怒的;棘手的
  • Be careful what you say because he's touchy.你说话小心,因为他容易生气。
  • He's a little touchy about his weight.他对自己的体重感到有点儿苦恼。
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acceptance of concealed work
adjurers
air force officer
alsek r.
amacom
analysis processing
ankang
anti-loosing washer
Barlee, L.
bashfulness
blacktops
Bordeaux bottle
broderbund
chain branching
clear aperture (ca)
cognitive insight therapy
commissionings
compilatios
container number list
Cousinia leiocephala
dedolent
defoul
diphenyl iodonium iodide
distance across the wheel flanges
DMAT
dummy argument name
duration of possible sunshine
Dzhankuyevka
educational endowments
emergency galvanized bucket
entry object
equivalent parts per million
exert oneself to do sth
fiber optic sensor
Fields, W.C.(William Claude Duken fields)
frazil ice
Gabor in-line hologram
given up the gjost
glassified
Grande, Cayo
gray matter (or gray nerve substance)
Hals, Frans
heat-treated track shoe
heavy wool grease
homo erectus officialis
Honggun
industrial applicability
isleib
kumatology
land vehicle
lario
loiter with intent
maned rat
mechanical ground support equipment
minimal harmonic
molal fraction
momentum exchange
muffitt
multi-annual
multipurpose ship
net present value model
network administrator
nondissociable
nonmyeloid
Norton Canon
one week
organic amnesia
pole-foundation
polyperythrin
pontocythere miurensis
Poseyville
position dilu tion of precision
presser bar spring
random number generation
robotistic
ropred
rose ear
Russey Prey
sludgeworm
sodium fluoroborate
stabilized crude
structured writing for software documentation
swerdloff
test in getting bumper crops
thioaldehyde
Trollius dschungaricus
tumor-bearing
undue preference
ungrammaticized
unsymmetrical oscillations
upskirts
vellous
Vidal, R.
wet day
What a stomach he has got!
wolfschmidts
wortzel
yah-sure
zinc anode cathodic
zuccari