我聽人說過，如果你講那個國家的語言你將會用他們的模式思考。我以前不暸解他想表達的意思，但是現在我想他是對的。我們可以透過語言來暸解一個國家的文化。

I heard an interesting saying, “You think in the language you speak” (Sam). I used to confuse but now I think he is right. We can understand one culture from their language. Here has something I learned.

1)有些中文字不能找到一個好的英文解釋。如果用字典查這些字可以找到些定義但是不是那麼準確，少了那麼點味道。

Some Chinese words do not have an exactly word in English. If you look up the dictionary maybe you can find the definition but that’s not that precisely.

>默契 unspoken consensus

>緣份 predestined relationship (不是很滿意這個說法)

>氣質

>撒嬌 to act like a spoiled child  (呃…)

一個ABT跟我說因為美國人不撒嬌

但是

她們運用Sexy來吸引男人.

這真是一個有趣的發現

An ABT told me that American women only use “Sexy” to attract man.

This is an interesting discover.

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2)另外一個發現是英文其實是個有性別岐視的語言(也許沒這麼嚴重但有這麼點意味)

another discover is that English is an sexist language (Maybe not the majority, but some.)

>congressman 眾議員

>chairman 主席;議長;委員長;董事長

很多英文單字都只有以man結尾, 近年來才有congresswoman這個詞產生

There are a lot of English vocabularies ends with “man”. In recent years, there is a new word of congresswoman.

>Men’s achievment 人類的成就    Men 泛指human

我曾被這個詞誤導但是後來才暸解原來那不是只有指男人的成就

I was misled by this word. Afterward I realized the “Men” really means human but not just male.

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3)另一方面他們也致力於兩性平等

On the other hand, American fighting for the equal between two sex.

>男服務員 steward

>女服務員stewardess

以上是舊稱，可能會從較老的美國人口中聽到

>現在大都以attendant來泛指服務員

They were old saying, might hear from elder people.

People use attendant to call steward and stewardess now.