在线英语外教叫老外彻底崩溃的留学生英语

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在线英语外教，叫老外彻底崩溃的留学生英语



Can I have another one？ Jeffery 留学地：英国

有次跟英国同学一起去一家餐馆，那里主菜是可以续的。因此一群人兴致勃勃一起前去。主菜分量小，吃一份确实还没饱。我当即想要续一份，于是举着手对服务员叫唤：“Can I have another one？服务员连忙跑过来惊恐地看看我，再看看我的盘子，问我：“Is there any problem, sir?”我回答：“No, I just want to have another one。”一边说一边还心里犯嘀咕，英国佬也挺抠门的嘛，明明说好能续的，怎么一谈到续餐还要大惊小怪问有什么问题。

对面的同学见状，立马微笑着对服务员解释道：“Just one more,please。”服务员这才跑开去，但仿佛还心有疙瘩。

后来经同学点拨，我才明白过来，原来我说的那句话会被人误以为是我对食物不满意，要求更换一份。通常这对一家餐馆来说是一种极大的不满和批评，属于挺原则性的问题。其实要求续餐只需简单说一句“Onemore”即可，意思就是“再给一份”。哪像我当时不知情，咋咋呼呼地就脱口而出了引起歧义的句子。当时那个窘啊。等服务员再端上来一份后，人家还念念不忘问我是否对主菜有任何问题，我忙不迭地说“没问题，没问题……”接下去的餐只敢埋头闷吃，极为不好意思。 Yes or No? Kob

留学地：加拿大

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没去加拿大之前，我本是准备申请美国学校的。不过当时有个学校的代表前来上海面试，我就是因为在面试中犯了最基础的低级错误，可能因此错失了offer。记得当时面试官问我一个问题：“Did you get any other certificate in your home country?”(你还得到过自己国家颁出的任何其他学习证书吗？)我答：No。”“面试官马上跟我确认：“So you haven’t any other certificate, right?” “Yes。”我答：他愣了一下，再次确认道：You got other“certificate?”我又如实说：No。

我当时看见他有点抽筋的表情，估计是被我的烂英语给弄崩溃了。他再次一字一句地问我“Did you get any other certificate?”我小心翼翼挤出一个字：“No。”他长舒一口气：“Ok, let’s put no。”显然他已经不敢再跟我确认。 其实，回答yes or no这种问题是中国学生最容易犯迷糊的。中西方思维不一样，中方回答是非题是根据所问问题来答的，而英语思维是根据实际情况来答的。比如他的第二句跟我确认的话，事实是我没有其他学习证明，就应该答“No。”可是我却根据中式思维针对那个问题说了“Yes”。面试官被我一会儿是一会儿否，不弄疯才怪呢。

Jim: Hey Claire, you've been really quiet these last few days. Is something wrong?

Claire: I've been really stressed. It's the end of the year and I've got so much stuff to do! I feel like I'm drowning in work.

J: Well, stress is a real thing. It's not an imaginary condition. C: It's seriously affecting my life! I can't sleep, I don't have much of an appetite and my husband says I've been kind of short tempered. Other people seem to handle stress okay...why am I so weak?

Claire最近一直不太说话，原来是因为到年底了，有做不完的事情，I've been really stressed. 她感觉压力特别大。Claire说，I feel like I'm drowning in work. Drown, d-r-o-w-n, drown 溺水，在这里是一种比喻的说法，drown in work 意思是自己快要被工作压垮了。Claire不仅睡眠不好，食欲差，而且还动不动就发脾气，short tempered。大家都有压力，是不是只有Claire承压能力差呢? Jim说，

J: You're not weak...you're stressed out! Stress has been a part of the human condition for millions of years. Back when we still lived in

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the trees we had to watch out for predators...and as you might imagine, that was pretty stressful.

C: Yeah, but I don't see any tigers or leopards roaming around our office. My stress is just about silly paperwork!

J: But you're actually having the same reaction as our tree-dwelling ancestors! It's called the "flight or fight" response. Each time you feel like something's threatening you, your body decides whether to run away or fight...it causes all sorts of chemical reactions in the body. Jim安慰Claire说，这是身体对过度压力所做出的反应，就好像原来住在树上的老祖宗，随时随地要watch out for predators警惕捕食者的来袭，虽然现代人压力的来源变了，但是Claire面对压力，身体做出的反应还是一样的，这种反应叫flight or fight response，要在逃跑还是交战之间做出选择。Claire似懂非懂。

C: So a deadline will cause that same reaction?

J: It could. Modern humans actually have more "flight or fight" responses than our ancestors did. They just had a couple of close calls every day, but today, we have dozens or even hundreds!

C: So the life of a cave woman was less stressful than my life? Jim说，跟生活在树上的老祖宗相比，现代人每天面对的flight or fight的情况更多。他们以前每天可能只有几次遇到危险，close calls，a close call指险些发生的厄运，比如 I was almost run over by a car. It was a close call.(我差点没被车撞到，太悬了)。如果真像Jim说的，现代人比史前人类cave man或是cave woman面对的压力还大了?我们下次继续听。



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