In the small, family-owned electronics store, we often get folks from out of town whose idioms are a little different from our own. One day, after parking her car across the street in an attended lot, a young woman came in. She made her purchase and then asked, “Do you give validation?” Without batting an eye, I replied, “You are an excellent person, and I love your hair.”
在我們家開的小電子商店,經(jīng)常有外地來的顧客,他們所用的術(shù)語和我們的不同。有一天,一個青年女子把車停在馬路對面有人看管的停車場以后走了進來。她挑完東西以后付了錢。然后問:“你們給不給確認?”我連眼睛都不眨地說:“你是一個絕頂好人,我還喜歡你的發(fā)型?!?