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
abiological removal
acid albumin
act opossum
actinics
Alby-sur-Chéran
almicantera
angulosum
anthoceros fusiformis taiwanensis
antihallucinogen
atom-tipped
basaltic tuff
bedform
bekki
Benidormification, Benidorming
bidaxe
birdlover
bondsteel
bufford
butynedioic acid
cancer japonicus
carriage paid to ...
Chelicerata
chicklings
chopeine
co-ordinate
cobalt(ii) hydroxyquinone
codeletions
combinatorial explosion
decad counter
double income no kids (dink)
doxorubicin
draft animal
dummy filter
durmast
earth station for satellite communication
einsteinium complex
ejb
el nion effect
error angle
erythrochromia
esii
Feinne
fixed digit
flat plate cascade
frequency selective filter circuit
genus Mammea
good and ...
have been there before
heterocercy
iir (infinite impulse response)
immediate assistance
in-line subroutine
intake structure
inter alios
iringo
irradiation embrittlment
kasma
katapleite (catapleiite)
Kodak moments
lenate
mawon
microcallus
MPBB (maximum permissible body burden)
mutual savings
mycetozoans
no load speed changing
North Tyne, River
Northcott operation
notoseila laqueata
object of entry
oulachan
partial out
Pectinariidae
phenate butyl
pick apples
pipe-expanding machine
pneumencephalography
PORTSUM
postcolon
process barrier
reciprocating shaft
recognition time
replace only bullets
right-leg
rpi
schimmelpfennig
Schwarz-Christoffel transformation
Shockley-Read recombination model
slow-waver
support reaction
tactical control radar
tail wheel landing gear
Tegul'det
theorem of moment of momentum
thermoreflectometry
trivial nomenclature
turret steamer
two-degree-of-freedom structure
unamusingly
undercome
velocity meter