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
AAS (automatic addressing system)
Abury
ali-joe
anovular menstruation
arbitration provision
asymmetric transformation
Baily's beads
buniodyl
bush beans
calochroa flavomaculata
Camapuã
Canamari
ceramium paniculatum
Chariton River
Chlamydoselachidae
coefficient of stray light
conductoress
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Crus membranaceum simplex
delwin
demand paging system
disprovability
DOE (Department of Energy)
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dura maters
dynamic duo
every cargo voyage
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Ferris wheels
Fidel Castro
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fortune sticks
front-ends
glideslope
gold clause case
hallaxes
have the hide to do
hodsons
honey locust
hydrolodic acid
in negotiation
internal energy of reaction
ionization level
Ixodiphagus caucurtei
jarch
Keenbrook
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kiaa
lip mark
loosen the bowels
low-response
lymphogranuloma inguinale
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Maundy
means of bribery
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Mental Health Act Commission
mipus crebrilamellosus
motion perception
multiple-conductor line
muntenite
Negru Vodǎ
neutron activation product
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nuclear active particles
ocean way-bill
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overall total
oxyethylene group
plaintful
prosentence
protected code
pterolophia (pterolophia) variantennalis
Puntas del Sauce
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Remove directory
ring tail cat
Roraima, Mt.
rotary piston internal combustion engine
school bond
scleroderma neonatorum
sclondre
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soda-saline soil
subfluvial tunnel
supraanal pad
tannahdar
tip of the hat
translatitious
travel(l)ing allowance
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vacuum-tight mold
vascoceratid
Vurnary
wear preventive
when-
zygomorphically