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Tell me, do the Englishmen improve as you get to know them? Oh yes. Oh good. Once you have made a friend, it's a friend for life, but it takes a very long time. I'll tell you something very important. An Englishman in America is respected. Everyone wants to talk to him. We're inquisitive. We love his accent and his country. But Americans in England are thought to be a little inferior because of their loud behavior and their language. One thing I've learned is that English people like a certain body distance. When I was talking to someone, he would move away and I thought "Do I smell? Am I boring him?" The reason was, you see, Americans stand closer when they're talking. Again, English people like a certain body distance.
告訴我，當(dāng)你逐漸了解英國(guó)人的時(shí)候，他們有所改善嗎？ 是的。 太好了。 當(dāng)你結(jié)交了一位朋友，他會(huì)是一輩子的朋友。但是，這需要很長(zhǎng)一段時(shí)間。我將會(huì)告訴你一些很重要的事實(shí)。一位在美國(guó)的英國(guó)人是受歡迎的，每個(gè)人都想和他交談。我們很好奇，我們喜歡他的口音和他的國(guó)家。但是在英國(guó)的美國(guó)人卻因?yàn)樗麄兂臭[的行為和他們的語(yǔ)言，被認(rèn)為是低人一等。我所知道的一個(gè)事實(shí)就是，英國(guó)人喜歡一段肢體上的距離。當(dāng)我和某人說(shuō)話時(shí)，他會(huì)走開(kāi)，我在想“我身上有味道嗎？我讓他感到無(wú)趣了嗎？”原因就是，你明白的，美國(guó)人在他們談話時(shí)站的很近，再者，英國(guó)人喜歡一段特定的身體距離。 ——譯文來(lái)自: 一季槿樹(shù)花開(kāi)