这是一个美国人只身前往陌生土地的故事，这也是他途中遇到的人的故事：他的翻译鲁斯塔姆，一个可爱的24岁年轻人，在加利福尼亚学会了有趣的英语；奥列格和娜塔莎，他在塔什干的借宿人家；以及许多外国救援人员。

It is the story of an American travelling to a strange land, and of the people he meets on his way: Rustam, his translator, a lovely 24-year-old who picked up his colorful English in California, Oleg and Natasha, his hosts in Tashkent, and a string of foreign aid workers.

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莫娜·辛普森，小说作家，洛杉矶加利福尼亚大学英语教授。

Mona Simpson is a novelist and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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加利福尼亚州的州立法者们于2002年支持了这一建议，要求雇主对于任何有关英语的规定都要有首要的商业目的，并且要事先通知员工。

In California, state lawmakers backed that up in 2002 by requiring employers to have an overriding business purpose for any English-language policy, and to give workers advance notice.

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