尽管我们的英语说的很慢，而且不停地打手势(美国人说“我要让你弄明白”的意思)，服务员还是花了好几分钟才明白我们到底要找什么。

Despite speaking slowly in English and gesticulating wildly (American for "I want you to understand me"), it still took the attendant several minutes to figure out what it was we were looking for.

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