If you ask Westerners how old they are, they would feel offended by such personal questions.
如果你问西方人他们多少岁了，他们会觉得自己被这些私人的问题冒犯了。
Do not be offended, Elinor, if my praise of him is not in every thing equal to your sense of his merits.
埃丽诺，要是我对他的称赞与你对他优点的认识不尽一致，请你不要生气。
So ask a reindeer what time of year it is, and it may be able to give you the date. Just don't be offended if it won't give you the time of day.
所以，要问驯鹿这是一年中的什么时段，它可能会给你个准确的日期，可如果它答不上来现在几点的话你就别生气了。
You can offer your help to others but back off if they appear to be offended by your persistence.
你可以向他人提供帮助，然而若他们因你的坚持而感到被冒犯了，那么你还是放弃为好。
Bostrom: the idea of appreciating gifts makes a lot of sense if there is someone who is giving you these gifts and might otherwise be offended.
博斯特罗姆：假设某人给你礼物，如果不收就显得唐突，这样看来感激天赐的观点也很有道理。
Don't get upset even if you think the criticism is harsh, don't be offended even if you think it's wrong, and always thank those who take the time to offer it.
即使你觉得批评很苛刻也不要丧气，即使你觉得批评错了也不要感到被得罪，而且你要一直感谢那些花时间给你的文章提出批评的人。
If I'd offended her, she didn't show it.
不过就算我惹恼了她的话，她也并没有表现出来。
But when I asked if, for him, strategy was dead, he was close to being offended. "of course not," he replied.
但是当我想他提问时，我说，如果企业战略消亡了，他几乎是被我的提问激怒了似的，“企业战略当然不会消亡，”他回复道。
If you say something that was meant to make the person feel good, and they are offended instead, that is poor communication.
你要是说了让对方好受的话，但却适得其反，那就是交流失策。
Will you be offended if she doesn't offer to pay or will you be offended if she does do the slow-motion "let me get my wallet" move?
如果她不付帐的话，你会不会不高兴？如果她“掏钱包”的动作做慢了你会不会不爽？
If only you hadn't offended him!
要是你那时没有冒犯他就好了！
If you offend someone, ask his or her pardon; if you have offended a person publicly, apologize publicly.
如果你冒犯了某个人，那么请求他或她的原谅；如果你已经公开地冒犯了一个人，那么公开地道歉。
well, they would all have been so offended if I didn't eat.
好吧，如果我不吃的话他们一定都会怪我的。
I must apologize that if I offended you I didn't mean to.
我必须向您道歉，如果我冒犯了你，我不是有意的。
Thus, if visitors are not conscious of the meaning of such behavior, they not only will offend their hosts but they will be offended by them.
因此，如果客人意识不到这样的手势的含意，不仅会得罪主人，主人也会得罪他们。
Don't be offended if a Korean woman merely nods instead of offering her hand to shake, and don't extend yours to her.
如果一个韩国女人只是向你点了点头而不和你握手，不要生气，也不要向她伸出手做握手的动作。
A: Well, would you be horribly offended if I invited you to a Christmas party at my house?
唔，如果我邀请你来我家参加圣诞聚会，你会很生气吗？
But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.
但是你们也要明白不同的民族看待事物有不同的方法，所以如果我们的看法碰巧与你们的不一样的话，你们也不应觉的被冒犯了。
On the other hand, if the response is more like "Yeah, I was offended/angry/surprised, but it's no big deal, " your apology can be more perfunctory.
但是如果回应是“对啊，当时我感觉被冒犯了/很生气/很吃惊，但是没什么大不了的，”你的道歉就可以相对草率一点。
However, it is best to just say Trinidad and Tobago cause sometimes people from Tobago may get offended if you just say Trinidad.
不过最好还是说特立尼达和多巴哥，因为如果你只说特立尼达的话，来自多巴哥的人会感到他们受到了冒犯。
So all celebrations aside, don't forget to think if there is anyone who has offended you, but you have not forgiven him?
所以，庆祝归庆祝，别忘了想一想有没有人得罪你，但是你还没原谅他呢？
Would you be offended if Thompson asked you to get a vasectomy?
如果汤普森让你做结扎手术，你会被激怒吗？
Meanwhile people of Shamanism thought it difficult to tame and control the fire. If one offended the god of fire, he would beget punishment.
同时，火又具有难以驯服和不可控制的魔力，冒犯火神则会招致惩罚。
Hotel staff won't be overly offended if you don't tip.
饭店的员工假如没有得到你的小费的话，也不会觉得大受冒犯。
Hotel staff won't be overly offended if you don't tip.
饭店的员工假如没有得到你的小费的话，也不会觉得大受冒犯。
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