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(kāi)的小電子商店,經(jīng)常有外地來(lái)的顧客,他們所用的術(shù)語(yǔ)和我們的不同。有一天,一個(gè)青年女子把車停在馬路對(duì)面有人看管的停車場(chǎng)以后走了進(jìn)來(lái)。她挑完?yáng)|西以后付了錢(qián)。然后問(wèn):“你們給不給確認(rèn)?”我連眼睛都不眨地說(shuō):“你是一個(gè)絕頂好人,我還喜歡你的發(fā)型?!?