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你的英语有没有水土不服？
2003-07-21 09:15:14
“I was born in England, went to Australia when I was five, was entirely educated in Australia, spent several years in the USA and Canada and then ten years in France, and now live in England married to a Colombian wife where the common language at home is French, where my wife speaks Spanish to the children, I speak English to them and they spend undue amounts of time listening to American TV shows like Sesame Street, Buffy the Vampire Killer and the Simpsons or listening to American rappers, English Spice Girls or, when forced, heroes from the seventies such as Van Morrison and James Taylor. And they suck vocabulary, expressions, idioms and grammar out of all of this and plonk it into their own English.”
出生在中国的你是否曾经抱怨过自己没有出生在一个多语种国家，比如瑞士或是没能像上文中作者的孩子那样成长在一个多语种环境里呢？我相信大凡经历过TOEFL或曾经倍受“考G” 之苦的过来之人都会希望自己来世能有机会在童年就度过单词的原始积累期。可是你知道吗？即使是身处那样一种令人羡慕的语言环境，你也会遇到意想不到的麻烦，让我们来听听作为报纸撰稿人的Jimmy是怎么说的：
“I often get emails from readers berating me for my terrible spelling. While I admit to a few glaring typos from time to time the emails are often concerned with spellings that have more to do with geography than with poor literacy skills.”
随着英语的广泛使用以及不同地区的交流日益频繁，英语词汇面临着前所未有的考验。 一些具有鲜明地域特色的英语单词及用法成为人们学习英语，使用英语的新阻碍。英语的多元化让我们看到了American English, Australian English, British English and Indian English。近来甚至还出现了所谓的Singlish－－English from Singapore。所以要想征服英语，不论你曾经是亲英派还是亲美派都必须练就这一手明辨同意异形词的本领。所谓知己知彼，百战不殆嘛！
Colour or color?
Fall or Autumn?
Socks or sox?
Candy or sweets?
Organisations or Organizations?
Cookie or biscuit?
Underground or subway?
Centre or Center ?
Gas or petrol?
Trash or rubbish?
program or programme? By Qiqibaby
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