“foreign words Lianpian” of the snail version


1 early in the morning raving Things you say in the morning.

Teacher: What wrong with you?

William: I not myself today.

“I not myself” What does it mean? I am not I myself? So what is it I? It seems that words can not just be understood literally. So what is it mean? Let analogy: you sleep last night, and class the next day, no matter what your teacher asks you do not know, then the teacher will be very angry to ask you: “What wrong with you?” It is the best excuse : “I am not myself today” “Today the poor state of” “I am not myself” sentence looks simple, but to grasp its true meaning, but also need more friends in the envisaged scenario exercises might .

Hogan: William! We gotta go! It burning down! (burning nothing left of) the absence of time remaining.

William: Don bother me!

Some people like to sleep late in the morning, then If the family members wake you up, you can also pitiful that: “Please give me five more minutes.” Let me sleep five minutes please? This is a very polite to say, of course, if you are very angry people disturb your dreams, you probably said fiercely: “Don bother me!” “Do not bother me,” This is a bit Like the Beijing dialect: “Do not talk to me, trouble go again!” “bother” is “disturbing than people, and give them the meaning of trouble, to seek the help of others, you can say:” Sorry to bother you, but can you help me with this? “Excuse me, can trouble you to do me a favor do?

(Sleeping on a bed of nails) a bed of nails is the nail bed from India, a magician or a yoga teacher performance tool, if you sleep in this bed one night, you sleep is certainly terrible of.

Hogan: How did you sleep?

William: Not good at all.

morning up, see your friends is not a good color, so you can greet him: “How did you sleep?” you sleep last night, how ah? If the person does not sleep well because, causing his face looks bad, then , would say: “Terrible” terrible! Or: “I didn sleep well last night”, I did not sleep well last night! lack of sleep for many reasons, may be due to work, study on the pressure too much lead to insomnia, “sleep” in the English manager called “insomnia”, you may also have too much sleep during the day, leading to not sleep at night, then people will accuse you of: “You overslept” or “You slept too long today.” you sleep too much sleep today.

Culture note: cultural background

In this episode we are talking about things you say in the morning. What kind of person are you? Are you a morning person or are you not a morning person. For example, my father is a morning person. He loves to get up in the morning , with lots of energy and he says, “Good morning, world!” My mother, on the other hand, is not a morning person. In the morning, she always says, “don bother me! Give me five more minutes . “So you really don want to talk to her then. But many people, before they can wake up completely, they like to have a big cup of coffee. Then, and on ly then, should you ask, “How did you sleep?” you got that?


2. toilet outside Scream Bathroom Commands

(Hogan is trying to pick up a girl) pick up because someone have a crush on and want to get to know someone

Hogan: So, Can I buy you a drink?

William: Hey! Hogan! Don hog my girlfriend !!!

“Don hog the bath room” is “Do not occupied toilet” means. washroom there are many uses, in addition to address the physical needs of other Some people also like the inside reading, singing, playing the mirror. So if you want to go to the toilet when someone can not wait, he would have enough pubic region of the gas transported, who Gezhao Men facing the toilet inside Large throat loudly: “Don hog the bathroom”, the people inside one: wow! such a strong voice, it is mostly enough to choke a choke, he is still not dawdle, and quickly out of it, and voila! solved the problem. Not only that, this sentence can also be applied in any case — “Don hog my book! Don hog my bike!” “Do not occupied my endless … …!”

Hogs usually eat a lot, so gradually hog meant to take more than your share. Hog and a little-known “wild boar” means, the kind of greedy, greedy and with people who are not “hog” have a certain commonality ah!

(on the podium podium, getting hugs from the women)

Hogan: Hey! Don hog the hugs!!

mentioned in the sentence “Don hog the bathroom “” bathroom “is the meaning of the toilet. Also in the U.S. language, shower, said toilet, then what difference does it both? bathroom is a bathroom with a tub, and shower is a shower, but generally speaking, refers to the meaning of all toilets. It is also worth noting that, please do not hog and hug confused, hog is very common in spoken language, and that selfish possession, used here is to urge each other, do something not occupied put, and hug hug mean, for example, to meet friends for a long time do not meet by chance, is not to embrace each other, embrace it? “give me a hug.”

William: Got outta here! There won be any hot water left!

Hogan: But I have a big date tonight with a hottie!! < br />

William: OK, just save me some hot mater!

Hogan (2 hours later) : OK, I done.

When you reach the rendezvous excitedly, only to find your girlfriend is not good grace and a chat with the guy, that guy chatter, so that you can not plug the mouth, then you have to do is screaming: “Don hog my girlfriend! Get outta here!” “Do not pestering my girlfriend, go away! “So the guy on the dingy away. How, is not the kids just love it ah.” Get outta here! “This sentence is very effective, use is also very extensive. And you say it was a joke, you do not want to care for him , we can say: “Get outta here!” cool to the side when you do not believe when people say, it can be said that phrase, how, try it.

Culture note

Will you get out of the bathroom already, please? This is a private bathroom. But if you are in the West you need to use a public restroom, and if you look on the sides of the streets for it, you won find it. Because all of the public restrooms are inside shops, stores and restaurants. In fact, they have signs that tell you “public restrooms “. They want you to sue it. It is a free service for you, their valued customer.

That right” mianfei “. In fact, these bathrooms are usually clean, almost always have toilet paper and some of them, especially in universities and schools, have poetry on the walls. It not high quality poetry, but still it quite interesting. In facet if my friend doesn get out of the bathroom soon, I think I gonna have to go use a public bathroom


3 dinners Going out to eat.

William: Wow! I really full.

Hogan: Me too. That was delicious. Waiter!

William: Oh, I l treat you.

Hogan: In that case, I l have some more cakes!

China is a ceremonies, provided that foreigners come to China , the hospitality of the Chinese people will be invited to dinner. “I will treat you” is what I mean treat. must not be interpreted as “I want to deal with you.” We all know that foreigners in terms of money is clearly divided You pay your account, I paid my. That is what we call “go dutch” a, but this statement has some out of date and now they often say: “Separate checks”, is the meaning of pay respectively, also is how much you eat on how much to pay. Another argument is: “Split the bill”, so, to eat more to take advantage of, because this sentence mean flat billing!

William: I famished! (very hungry)

Hogan: Me too. It my treat. What re you in the mood for?

William: I think I want some elephant ears!

dinner party, no matter what your purpose is business or greed and girlfriend dating, the ultimate aim is to make people happy, then you should ask people “What are you in the mood for?” “You eat what?” “mood” in the mood, the meaning of mood, but in the phrase, “be in the mood for” a fixed usage, means “what you eat.” This sentence in different circumstances have different interpretations, such as through the cinema When someone asks you: “Are you in the mood for a movie?” is a movie you want to see it? the same “for” all kinds of activities can be added later: dancing, shopping, smoking? but do not say “Are you in the mood? “This will be misleading yo!

(Monster truck drives over the other cars) truck: In Western countries, people often drive such a large car to attend the contest to see which car is the largest number of vehicles crushed, run the farthest. Monster

Hogan: Who gonna drive? The traffic is horrible .

William: I l drive my monster truck.

Hogan: Great idea.

Who drove you? Americans if you want to eat together, they will go before the decision about who should drive. cunning Americans implied meaning is: Who will pay the fuel costs? gonna be a typical American colloquial expression that will happen. The United States is a nation strives for efficiency, they spoke a few words will often combine that, going to become a word, gonna, also want to become a wanna, give it a try, is not speaking much faster? there is a sentence, said the same meaning: “Who driving?”

Culture note:

Who treating tonight? Actually, in the United States and Canada, many people, when they go out to eat together. They try to split the bill. I don mean that they count every single penny, how much each single person owes. But rather they share the cost of the meal together. In contrast, in China, after a shared mea. People feel obliged often to offer to pay for the meal. To the point that some people will even argue, in a friendly way, over who will pick up the bill.

Just as a Chinese person abroad might be confused a bit by the Western method, when a westerner comes to China, he might feel a little confused or even frightened by a friend who always insists on paying the bill. Similarly, when a gentleman and a lady go tout to dine, the man does not have to insist on paying the bill. But rather, sometimes the lady even wants to treat the man.

So sit down with your foreign friends and try to discuss these cultural differences so that meal time will always be a happy time.

I see in other places to, share ah.

Today I treat

If you asked people to eat, pay for the time, tell people:

It on me. (my treat.)

It my treat. (my treat.)

Be my guest. (my treat.)

You can also say: Let me pay the bill. (I have to pay the bill.)

Let me foot the bill. (I pay for. )

I want to treat you. (I ask you.)

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It on me. says I treat. It on you. that you treat if Waiter get some free dishes, he would say: It on the house. shop treat the boss, which means “free entertainment”. It my treat. I treat,

bonus: 1, met treat, do not think it is only “treatment” meaning, it can be expressed as “hospitality, entertainment,” such as you and others bet, after losing, You had to treat her to an ice cream. “You have to ask her to eat ice cream.” But in honor of people, not necessarily always “eat and drink”, you can also point to elegant, for example, I l treat you all to a little piano speciality of my own. It seems, “I need you to know I listen to a specially a piano piece from the spectrum “This really is a way to entertain guests enough level course treat as well,” the term “status, said,” treat, host “, so if you want to say” I host, my treat, “said each of the offerings on the beat : It my treat.

2, where the foot seems to really and “feet”, “foot” no relationship, and the spoken language of the foreigners, foot can be a verb, means “to pay bills or expenses”.


4. Checking and clarifying 打破沙锅问到底

Hogan: I wish I had wings so I could fly, fly away! You know what I mean?

Williama: No I don now what you mean.

Hogan: I mean I wish I were free to roam the world!

Roam the world = travel around the world. travel around the world

We communicate in a foreign language, it often did not understand when there is, then the other party will not stop to ask you: “Could you say that again?” Can you repeat it? Well, in order to prevent people always so endless ask, each finished in a word, you have to add that “You know what I mean?” You know what I mean? If the other party understand, they will say “Yes”, if the other party does not understand, They will say: “Sorry, I didn quite catch that.” “I sorry, I did not fully listen to understand.” This time, you said you just need to re-express it again meaning.

Williama: * $