15 English culture trap
1. You have matches
Recently I had a chance to board a luxury cruise ship tourism. Once I Taiwan took two glasses of cocktail at the bar back to the room to enjoy the way met a lady, and she laughed and said look after me: , so there is no match. chatting at dinner, I took the opportunity to ask an American friend the day the sentence, he explained: malicious, but is not required to ask you to help. relatives received a call a few days ago, said they entered the law firm before going to resort to psychological and relationship experts. sit down and talk calmly couple several times, an understanding of each other more and less of a copies of suspicion, blame, the results turn hostility into friendship. that simple and easy to so save the marriage. I psyche happy for them to tell the news also recognized one of their American friends. this friend very excited , and repeatedly said said: That unamused expression, friends suddenly enlightened, and to explain to me another way. finally letting me know that she is my relative, .
say farther, turn the tables (on someone), and also the phrase weak to strong). For example:
colleagues friends, and ultimately, briefed each other. Mr. introduced me to his colleague Larry, he said, but he was a busy man: . Larry has been answered with a smile, it touches on how the wind blows, Mr. and know I do not know, they help me find the next step. It turned out that Mr. Larry held senior positions in a department in the hospital, in addition to their own business, that is Larry dual roles, and not really wearing two hats. (From and his Chinese wife at the dinner table talking about the recent epidemic of a herbal medicine that can cure. Allen said one: Allen said he is the magical effect of the herb skeptical, but do not mean to >
this day, my colleagues and I are discussing is what Rhonda a birthday party, in order to respect the god of longevity, we let Rhonda and I choose a favorite restaurant. Rhonda recommendations to the town called BBQ, a U.S. restaurant. I never not been there, so he asked her what special features there. Rhonda began holding forth about their signature dishes, a large move could hear my fingers, straight swallowing, Rhonda laughed and said: World News tea. The old lady on the operation of chopsticks is very interested in learning to use chopsticks in the folder where the shrimp dumplings. D that he has an American friend, had spent some time learning the correct way to use chopsticks, each show will have the opportunity to look, and said with chopsticks is an art, is the performance of ancient Chinese culture.
Chinese eat with chopsticks, foreigners eat with knife and fork. In fact, before the foreigners do not knife andfork, using a fork whittled wood. This species Mucha spread from Italy through Istanbul United Kingdom, is a thorn in the flesh of two fork (two-prongedfork). Before this, people eat meat by hand, so the switch to meat fork was said to be an insult to God. . chopsticks sound with eat
7. Skeleton in the closet
when a friend talked about a big explosion, These were people really have skeletons in the closet? He said the the murder of a wealthy family that one of them remains hidden in the closet, let outsiders know that from this skeleton in the closet to become the family secret that, then this phrase can not or will not be used to refer to Yang's home outside the ugly, referred to as familyskeleton. For example: Many old families have a number of skeletons in theirclosets which they are loath todiscuss (many, many old family secret, they do not want to talk about these topics.) (From > 8. Skin off one's nose
Joe is very active in public interest to do volunteer work one day every week. In his influence, I also participated in several. has brought with him if a nearby Theatre volunteer, then, may be more interesting. One day he took a newspaper, it had the news of the theater looking for volunteers, I intend to have a look after work, but unfortunately run into that day not feeling well, after work do not want to move in bed. The next day met Joe, asked me to go, I explained to him the truth. He said after the hearing: , thinking that he probably thought I was In fact, teeth
9. Small beer
Small beer is in is Figuratively, said the smallbeer, refers to the size or pattern of small things. Since that great, not the little people: He thinks no small beer ofhimself. Be small beer compared with others used for the performance. smallbeer commonly used in spoken language as an adjective, Therefore, friends can open a fast food restaurant, said: Ours is a small-beer fast-food joint besideMcDonald. (From pasta, spaghetti addition to solid powder, there are pasta macaroni, lasagna lasagna, with meat, a small box-shaped Italian ravioli (wonton) ravioli, tagliatelle and the slender thread-like noodles, thin noodles vermicelli (we will fans, especially the real heart pink spaghetti, its easy to cook, can be accompanied by a variety of condiments, and soon popular across the country. But then there is no knife and fork is available, so eat the soup are the real heart powder-free, easy to hand catch to send the entrance. Now the gravy spaghetti (spaghettiwith meatsauce), is the emergence of eating later. Of course, Marco Polo is also eaten in China, then we ribs of beef noodle soup or noodles. But even in the soup for the soup spaghetti the spaghetti soup, all the subsequent emergence of pasta eat.
Spaghetti term comes from Italian spago, which means a line. a pasta is spaghetto, usually plural spaghetti. a plate of spaghetti , noodles messy, so the vehicle between the more traffic chaos in the corner called the spaghetti junction. (From chat, we all here, except not see Wayne. one of them said, . Just then, I saw Wayne came from the outside. Joe then said asked Joe.
original commonality, because Cao Cao was not there,
Highway Master Mercedes-Benz cars, friends, suddenly pointing to the front of a car, said: could afford to smile, I said: This is an American humor advertising, to attract customers to buy a car there ... Dealer, not a thief cars in. fear of the dentist, but because I really have a tooth pain, so I had to stay the course, to the dentist to register. When the doctor for my check, he asked me: Innocent replied: joke, but it does not understand. I know, and Sweet Tooth of these two words, but the combination of these two words together, I do not know the meaning. home checked the dictionary, I suddenly realized that meant sweettooth the classroom and announced: fondle his dog that was too late classes? meaning. , car, drops of water was visible, which makes Mr. remembered something: There was an American car speeding on the highway, more than 100 miles per hour. Police of course, cut him down. In court, he defended the So drive fast, as soon as possible because wanted the wind drying freshly washed car. I heard funny, even more curious about the outcome. President gave the answer: the result is was violation of the Ordinance, he will
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