Germans can go their whole working lives referring to the person next to them in the formal "Sie", instead of "Du", and kissing has become something of a threat to the accepted order.

德国人在工作中一直将身旁的人尊称为“您”而不是“你”，而亲吻礼业已成为广为接纳的秩序的一种威胁。

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Annett Louisan, a pop singer, laments the passing of Sie: “This distance adds a little more/to something that would be a bore/‘What can I do for Sie?’/stimulates wild fantasy.”

流行歌手安耐特•路易珊在她的歌中哀叹“您”这个称谓的消逝：“再多一点点距离/就少一点点空虚/‘很乐意为您效劳’/是最狂野的刺激”。

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This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

所以要是陌生人对我说起‘sie’，我真想立马毙了他。

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