看笑話學(xué)英語:Why do women talk more than men? 為什么女人比男人話多？

Why do women talk more than men? 為什么女人比男人話多？

英語笑話

A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that men use on average only 15,000 words a day, whereas women use 30,000 words a day.

She thought about this for a while and then told her husband that women use twice as many words as men because they have to repeat everything they say. He said, "What?"

中文翻譯

丈夫給妻子看了一項調(diào)查結(jié)果，為了向她證明女人比男人啰嗦。研究表明男人平均每天使用15000個字，而女人每天使用30000個。

妻子想了一會兒說，女人每天說的字?jǐn)?shù)是男人的兩倍，因為她們必須重復(fù)已經(jīng)說過的話。他問：“什么？”

詞匯點睛

prove [pru?v] v. 證明，證實

indicate [??nd?ke?t] v. 指示，指出

on average 平均

repeat [r??pi?t] v. 重復(fù)

語法分析

1. A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that men use on average only 15,000 words a day, whereas women use 30,000 words a day. 丈夫給妻子看了一項調(diào)查結(jié)果，為了向她證明女人比男人啰嗦。研究表明男人平均每天使用15000個字，而女人每天使用30000個。

解析 　這句話比較長，句子的主干是A husband showed her a study。proving to his wife that women talk more than men在句中是作狀語，which引導(dǎo)的從句作定語修飾a study，在這個定語從句中又包含一個that引導(dǎo)的賓語從句，作indicated的賓語。

2. She thought about this for a while and then told her husband that women use twice as many words as men because they have to repeat everything they say. 妻子想了一會兒說，女人每天說的字?jǐn)?shù)是男人的兩倍，因為她們必須重復(fù)已經(jīng)說過的話。

解析 　本句話有兩個語法點。首先這是一個because引導(dǎo)的原因狀語從句。其次要注意倍數(shù)的用法，twice as many words as men這是“倍數(shù)＋as＋計量形容詞原級＋as”的結(jié)構(gòu)。例如：

This tree is three times as tall as that one. 這棵樹是那棵樹的三倍高。

His father is twice as old as he. 他父親的年紀(jì)有他兩倍大。

口語實踐

A　What's that? What are you doing? What is that? What are you doing?

B　Don't nag me! I'm not going to put up with this!

A　那是什么？你在做什么？那是什么？你在干嘛？

B　別在我面前嘮叨！我再也受不了啦！

★nag [n?g] v. 嘮叨，煩擾

★put up with 容忍，忍受

A　Do you think we quarrel too much?

B　Yes! It seems that's how we communicate!

A　你覺得咱們吵架是不是吵太多了？

B　是?。】雌饋磉@就是我們交流的方式！

★quarrel [?kw?r?l] v. 爭吵

★communicate [k??mju?n?ke?t] v. 交流

A　We should stop being so picky.

B　I agree! We tend to quarrel over some of the smallest things!

A　我們應(yīng)該不要再這么挑剔。

B　我同意！我們總是在小事上吵架！

★picky [?p?k?] adj. 挑剔的

★tend [tend] v. 傾向，趨向

笑話文化解讀

對許多男人而言，這可真是個惱人的千古奇案，似乎也是自己痛苦的主要來源，有一份調(diào)查顯示，男人討厭女人做的事情當(dāng)中，排名第一的就是“啰嗦嘮叨”。研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，女人一天說的話可以是男人的兩倍，所以這么看來，女人的確比男人更愛嘮叨。而被男人視為嘮叨的動作，其實包括不同的內(nèi)容：

（1）重復(fù)命令：女人對男人發(fā)號施令得不到響應(yīng)，就會不斷地重復(fù)要求（是要求，而非請求）。

（2）關(guān)心提醒：即使是出于善意的提醒，只要不是男人想聽的，也算嘮叨：“你今天吃藥了嗎？”或者：“今天降溫，別忘了多穿衣服?！?/p>

（3）稱贊他人：有時女人表達的是對別人言行的欣賞，但如果男人覺得女人話中有話，這分明就是嘮叨。

（4）分享心事：最讓女人感到委屈的恐怕就是這一種了，忙了一天好不容易兩個人見到面，跟你說說心理的想法，才表示咱倆親密如昔。但男人下了班就想放空，安安靜靜地看個報紙就心滿意足，此時女人如果抒發(fā)千言萬語，就真是太不識相了。

對女人來說，這些可是內(nèi)容功用截然不同的溝通形式，但到了男人耳里，卻通通變成同一種定義：“啰唆嘮叨”。女人該理解的是，基本上只要讓男人心煩的溝通方式，就算是嘮叨。這也解釋了為何男人認(rèn)為女人無時無刻都愛嘮叨，而女人卻只會承認(rèn)自己“偶爾”會嘮叨的差異。