Are you shortsighted? ( nearsighted / shortsighted )
多年前我在 Community College進(jìn)修英文,某日老師進(jìn)入教室后向我們宣布,她得眼鏡壞了,看不清楚字,今天不用課本,以自由交談得方式上課。我立刻打開(kāi)話匣子問(wèn)老師:“Are you shortsighted?”老師瞪了我一眼,然后用冷淡的音調(diào)回答:“I am not shortsighted。”
我仍然不知趣的繼續(xù)問(wèn)她:“How come you can't see very well?”這時(shí)候老師知道我又在說(shuō)中國(guó)英文,便心平氣和利用機(jī)會(huì)來(lái)教育我們,她說(shuō):“I am a nearsighted person. I am not shortsighted. There is a difference between nearsightedness and shortsighted."
Nearsighted表示此人視力有問(wèn)題,而shortsightedness表示此人沒(méi)有遠(yuǎn)見(jiàn)的意思!