你听起来不像外国人在说英语。
你或许从之前提及之事中料到了法国人想要逐步淘汰重音。绝对不是这样的。
You might think from the foregoing that the French want to phase accents out. Not at all.
中国人喜欢他们的“富贵竹”，你会经常在他们的家里和办公室看到它们。
Chinese love their "Lucky Bamboo" plants and you will see them often in their homes and office.
对于需要担心钱不够用的美国人来说，我的建议很简单：买你买得起的东西，并且自己做饭。
To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself.
《科学美国人》上的一篇文章指出，实证研究表明，事实上你认为自己比实际的你更美。
An article in Scientific American has pointed out that empirical research says that, actually, you think you're more beautiful than you are.
如果你有德国人在奥斯坦德吃着淡菜炸薯条，也就是薯条配淡菜，而那里却已经有个法国人了，这是难以想象的。
If you've got the Germans in Ostende eating Moules Frites, which is mussels with French fries, and you've already got the French there, this is unthinkable.
同样，美国人认为眼神交流很重要，他们通常不信任不敢直视你眼睛的人。
Likewise, Americans consider eye contact very important, often not trusting someone who is afraid to look you in the eye.
如果你一天吃三顿饭，并且表现得像大多数美国人一样，那么有可能你每天至少三分之一的卡路里是在外面吃饭摄取的。
If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories outside the home.
在这些图中，你可以看到各种可能用于抵御罗马人、德国人、维京人的建筑，而现在大自然是头号敌人。
In the images, you see all kinds of possible defense constructions to hold back the Romans, Germans, Vikings, and now nature as enemy number one.
现在，冥王星可能是个矮行星，但是，亲爱的克莱德，在我书中你仍然是第一个发现行星的美国人。
Pluto may be a dwarf planet now, Clyde baby, but you're still the first American to discover a planet in my book.
你能相信英国人一天喝掉1.5亿杯茶吗？
Can you believe people in Britain drink over 150 million cups of tea a day?
你的祖父母都是美国人吗？
你知道被评为“感动中国人物”之一的张桂梅吗？
Do you know Zhang Guimei, who was honored as one of the "People Who Moved China"?
你能告诉我们是否可以开始和外国人交谈了？
Could you tell me we can start a conversation with a foreigner?
我希望你珍惜在中国学习的时间，主动和中国人交朋友。因为这可以提高你的中文水平，帮助你了解中国文化。
I hope you cherish the time studying in China and take the initiative to make friends with Chinese people. As that can improve your Chinese language level and help you understand Chinese culture.
因此你会看到一个音乐互相影响而形成的环状效应——意大利人发明了歌剧，法国人修改了它，英国人吸收了它，意大利人又带回本国。
So that you have this circle of musical influences—the Italians invented opera, the French adapted it, the English adopted it, the Italians took it back.
今天，中国人仍然使用这些扇子，只是不再有很多人在上面写字或画画了。下次当你挥舞扇子的时候，你可能会想起它背后的故事。
Today, Chinese people still use these fans, only not many people write or paint on them anymore. Next time when you are waving a fan, you may think of the stories behind it.
即使你是法国人，也不要亲吻。
在作者看来，外国人是提高你英语口语的“机会”；每当你见到外国人，不论美国人还是英国人，你应该和他或她练习说英语。
In the writer's opinion, foreigners are an "opportunity" to improve your oral English; whenever you see a foreigner, American or English, you should practise speaking English with him or her.
如果你和外国人交朋友的唯一原因是为了提高你的英语水平，那么你可能会发现你交的外国朋友并不长久。
If your only reason for becoming friends with a foreigner is to improve your English, then you will probably find that you don't have a foreign friend for long.
吴先生，你能告诉我中国人在中秋节通常做什么吗？
Mr Wu, can you tell me what Chinese people usually do on the Mid-Autumn Festival?
“Colour”和“color”，“favourite”和“favorite”，“honour”和“honor”……你有没有想过为什么美国人拼写这些单词时没有“u”？
"Colour" and "color", "favourite" and "favorite", "honour" and "honor"...Have you ever wondered why Americans spell those words without a "u"?
每个中国人都应该知道这一点，说你喜欢中餐就像说糖是甜的或冰是冷的。
As everyone in China should already know this, saying that you love Chinese food is like saying that sugar is sweet or ice is cold.
许多越南人说，没有这种美味的食物，他们就不能开始新的一天！你在世界各地都能找到法式炸土豆，但比利时人会告诉你，这种受欢迎的街头小吃是他们而不是法国人在17世纪发明的。
Many Vietnamese people say they cannot start the day without this delicious food! You can find French fried potatoes all over the world, but as Belgians will tell you, they, not the French, invented this popular street food, back in the 17th century.
你的美发师是个法国人。
到郊外的美国人家里做客，你做的第一件事就是，情不自禁地移步到落地窗前。
Go to an American home in exurbia, and the first thing you do is to drift toward the picture window.
你曾经想过成为外国人的女朋友吗？
Tracy: Have you ever considered being a girlfriend of a foreigner?
你曾经想过成为外国人的女朋友吗？
Tracy: Have you ever considered being a girlfriend of a foreigner?
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