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
alternate black and white blocks
angular depth of thread
arklows
astronomical navigation tables
audible aids to navigation
Avional alloy
Bacillus citreus cadaveris
back then
ballast arrival condition
Bhogai R.
biune
black bag
BSEG
chocolate bombs
chromel triangle
closed in frunk
clypeofrontal
common sandpiper
cooled-anode transmitting valve
cost someone an arm and a leg
crimp cover
demyanov
directly attached loop
DRBC
duggans
Dāvarzan
ecology of coastal waters
eigensimplified
electrochromics
electropolarized
expulsion system
fifth generation research
fixed binocular loupe
fluvial animal
footing piece
friction knob
genus Petroselinum
Gloggnitz
gp63
gypsobioside
heat storage technology
Hungarian lilac
in someone's way
induction method
infrared ceramic panel emitter
instruction to bidders
interthoracic
iron(ii) selenite
Khaskovska Oblast
Koular
koven
land breeze depth
limos
loss of expectation of life
Lucinidae
make an observation
mdse.
mean inequality
mean root square error
medulla ossium gelatinosa
methane blower
Morse, Samuel F.B.
multi photon absorption
multiday
multiple access carrier
neurinomatosis universalis
neutralized radio frequency am-plifier
nitrogenated oil
ocherki
plausible inference
Populist Party
prearranged aircraft maneuver
primemanifold
proximal
punch reproducer
put a gloss on
pyrothioarsenite
racial exploitation
Rubus nagasawanus
runoff generatingrain
shipbuilding crane
sintering atmosphere
soluble protein
spanish bayonets
special pipe carrier
spotted black basses
stack factor
steaming out
step drilling
Strathclyde
Summit, Mt.
tidal regime
toe-end of tooth
Torrejoncillo
towret
tridiagonal-matrix algorithm
unconfidence
US Coast Guard
witcover
working force
yackety-yakking
zymogen granule