A kind of body language that is acceptable in one culture may be impolite in another.

在一种文化中可以接受的一种肢体语言在另一种文化中可能是不礼貌的。

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Some people say we should never be impolite to another person.

同意与否？有人说我们应该对别人礼貌。

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“I didn’t want to tell them how I’d done it, but I didn’t want to be impolite, either, ” Kearns recalls.

卡恩斯后来回忆到，我真的不愿告诉他们我的发明的原理，但我又不愿意显得过于粗鲁无礼。

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Also, not to be impolite or anything, but how expressive is a fish, until it hits a grill?

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He understood that they were people of goodwill, and he could not bear to be impolite, but the benign interest of others was a burden.

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In the US it can be seen as more than impolite to question religious-based beliefs.

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