时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   中国文化中“面子”非常重要,可是如何向美国人解释这个概念还真不容易,今天Jenny和Spencer要帮大家解释一下“面子”的英语表达。


  英语也说“脸皮厚”
  英语中“脸皮厚”和汉语一模一样:
  Thick skinned: 厚脸皮
  但是脸皮薄,一般不会用“thin skinned”,而要说:
  Not thick skinned: 脸皮不厚
  Sensitive: 敏感
  Self-conscious: 怕难为情
  面子的概念外国人是从中国人这里学的
  英语中原本没有“面子”的概念,但是很多外国人现在也知道:
  The concept of face in Chinese culture: "face"在中国文化的概念
  如果对方不明白,如何用英语解释:
  A person's reputation, status and dignity: 一个人的名声、地位、自尊
  没面子不是no face!
  各种和“面子”有关的英语怎么表达?
  #1. Losing face: 丢脸
  Losing face可能很多外国人会懂,不过并不地道。
  怎么说:
  So embarrassed: 很尴尬
  How embarrassing: 让人尴尬
  Feel so embarrassed: 非常尴尬
  Feel so dumb/silly: 很无语/很愚蠢
  #2. Giving face: 给面子
  Giving face是非常中式的概念,英语中只能表达类似的意思:
  Flatter: 奉承
  Compliment: 赞美
  Praise: 表扬
  Show respect: 表示尊重
  中国人喜欢说的“给我面子”,英语表达就比较平淡了:
  I insist: 我坚持要这样
  #3. Gain face: 有面子
  Gain face也是很中国的概念,一般还是用respect来表达:
  Gain respect: 被尊重
  #4. Saved face: 挽回面子
  Saved face英语中有一个更好的对应表达:
  Redeemed yourself
  Redeem: 挽回,赎回

标签: 美国文化
学英语单词
acousmatic
acs (american chemical society)
adod
allowable pressure angle of cam mechanism
alumnal
amalgamation process
anoopsia
arcuate macula
aulacogens
back forty, back 40
Bacon,Nathaniel
bose einstein statistics
boundary wall
button closure
Celt
certificate store
Chloramidina
co-filter
coiler can
coleman-rainwater social standing hierarchy
conglobate glands
convexes
decontamination factor
degradation of pollutant
delcredere commission
deliveryperson
design software
dining-room furniture
dreikanters
eclosion hormone
epicene person
epipelagic fauna
ermirio
extraction shaft
face-mounted
feelgoods
funnel bonnet
Goldfussia psilostachys
gone nuclear
granulocyte colony stimulating factor
hat sweatband leather
heat lost by brine
horizontal fin pairs
horn arrester
Humagel
insulation brakdown
knuckle pin bracket
lateral contact pin
leukocytic endolysin
light blue
Low-level competition
Mahembe
main distribution
miarolite
middle market rate
Moldefjorden
molecular silp
nightshade family
operational processing function
Ormuzd
Paeonia sterniana
plant morpho-anatomy
platyproct
policy of the big revolver
post calibration
postacetabular flap
precociouspregnancy
preiff
prepuberal
production shop
ramzi
recus
regratrye
remote terminal control
rouquet
scalar value
sectional boom
see your way to doing
Serrezuela
set-in bridge
ship-borne radar
shrinkage mining
sludge dryer
some
star-field
step-up transmission
store-status save area
stratocumulus
studtite
system input device
traditional chinese primary character set
Tricomi equation
trodded
unstain
user defined keyword
vessel's numbers
wedge-shaped hopper
wire heald
wirsung's duct (or pancreatic duct)
witworm
zero in on sth
zero-initial-length sprig