安老師英文寫作教室

  “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”      --- Socrates

“整個婚姻的意義是：如果你有好妻子，你會快樂。如果你有惡妻，你會成為哲學家。”                   --- 蘇格拉底

 各位同學好！

     學英文也學一點哲學思想，可以勵志，可以修身，一魚兩吃，一舉兩得。

     安老師整理了中西方哲學家的語錄，原則上每週一篇與同學分享。每篇的結構:

安老師在28歲(1975年)出版了第一本翻譯的電子書籍，如今匆匆已過四十年。岳飛"滿江紅"中寫的"三十功名塵與土，八千里路雲和月。"安老師是"四十載翻譯甘與苦，箇中心情誰與訴。"

這些經歷和過程不是"白頭搔更短，撚斷數莖鬚。"可表達的。安老師單獨成立一個單元，記載這四十年中英翻譯的甘苦和心酸。敬請期待！

以華語為母語的同學在英文寫作中的誤區之一

    要學好英文寫作，先要暸解一些語言和文字的基本知識，從母語轉換到另一種語言時比較不容易出錯。同學都是以中文為母語，熟悉中文的表達方式，寫英文時腦子裡是以中文構思，然後將中文句子或段落翻成英文寫出。如果不暸解兩種語文的異同，英文句子很容易寫成中式英文，外國人很難暸解這種中式英文的意思。

The preschool teacher says, "We're going to do vocabulary today. Who can use the word 'definitely' in a sentence?"

幼兒園老師說，“我們今天要教字彙。誰能用definitely這個字造個句子?”

 A man goes to Spain and attends a bullfight. Afterwards he goes to a nearby restaurant and orders the specialty of the day. The waiter brings him two very big balls on a huge plate, which the tourist eats with relish. The next day he goes to the same restaurant again, once again orders the specialty of the day, and he is brought two very big balls on a huge plate. It tastes even more scrumptious.

一個男人到西班牙看了一場鬥牛。看完後他走進附近的一家餐廳，並且點了當天特餐。服務員端給他乘了兩個大肉丸的巨盤，遊客吃得津津有味。隔天他又到同一家餐廳，再點一次當日特餐，服務員端了裝了兩個更大肉丸的更大盤子。味道更是絕妙。

The third day he does the same and the fourth, but on the fifth day he goes to the restaurant and orders the specialty of the day, and they bring him two very small balls on a big plate. The man asks, "What gives?"

“If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door.”

如果你的狗在後門吠，而你的妻子在前門大喊大叫，

A doctor was having an affair with his nurse. Shortly afterward, she told him she was pregnant. Not wanting his wife to know he gave the nurse a sum of money and asked her to go to Italy and have the baby there.

有一個醫生和他的護士有一腿，後來他的護士告訴他，她懷孕了。醫生不想讓太太知道，於是乎他給了護士一筆錢，並告訴她帶著錢去義大利把小孩生下來。

一個立志要把英語學好的青年，天天自己在家苦讀英語。有一天機會來了，有志青年帶女朋友看電影，一個老美排在前面也在買票，急的面紅耳赤沒法售票員溝通。

有志青年擠上去自告奮勇當翻譯，售票員說今天票賣完了，只有站票，要買明天的就有座位。

他轉頭向老美說 “You see no see, you see stand see. No see tomorrow see” 老美露出不解的表情，有志青年搖搖頭向他的女朋友說，這個老外英文聽力太差啦，簡單的英文都聽不懂，大家還說老外英文好。哈! 哈!！哈!！!

會說英文不一定會教英文。說英文只要能表達意思就好，不在意文法的準確。教英文就不一樣了，當老師說的每一句話都不能錯：

  Where are you come from ? 錯了，應該是

  Where are you from ?  不管在美國這句話說了多少次，它都是錯的！