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。

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accusatour
Akiaki Atoll
Anglo-Norman architecture
antiferromagnetically-coupled media
application for opening bonded warehouse
arc-light
array reduction analysis circuit
asswad
bassinet
benzalcoumaranone
Bessarabiya
Bladex
botanick
Breitnau
Carex zhonghaiensis
celocurine
cephalosume
CFS to CFS Service
chiasma (pl. -mata)
chromotrope nfc
ciliation
continuation address
cutwals
cylindricsl cam
depreciation arbitrary
dissightly
dog-stone
Donec alv. sol. fuerit
eccentric rotation
electric products
electromechanical steering gear
exhaust whistle
experience from
fabric fuel tank
fare register
first legal mortgage
frame sample
Gameboy
gawkishly
gumti
have have got one's bellyful
heptaselenide
herbaceous cutting
horn angle
huldi
hydrofoil control system
ill will
karrs
Kualapembuang
labteches
lateral slide mold
local elongation
loss-of-head gage
Lågeros
mancophalic acid
meteorological observation
multiple spindle automatic cycle lathe
myoglobulin
Myrmeleontidae
N-ethylnaphthylamine
nervus spinalis
northern flying squirrel
oxygen blown steel
parallelize
Peristrophe lanceolaria
phenoxybutyronitrile
preparation of paper
primary components
prothecia
put something by
quantum soliton
raster scan
realleged
repletive
Rexville
routine experiment
sarcocyte
sex parties
short distance reconnaissance
signal gain
sound transmetter
start-marks
stored energy constant
supersonic signal
syncarcinogen
tabular display
technical control board
tenderside
throw sb into anxiety
tornia vagaus roxb .
trapezoid bone of lyser
tweenas
undercasts
upgradient
vacuum treated steel
value-judgment
vastus externus
vein texture
whiteville
wire hood
yellow wood
zero-pressure