時差N小時:文明禮貌

Good day. Nice to meet you. Pardon? I guess somepeople do like to use the word 'thank you' a lot.Another word we like to use often is 'cheers'. Thatcan be quite confusing because we also say 'cheers'when we clink glasses. And in some English speakingcultures, people say cheers instead of goodbye. Ashortening for 'cheerio'. Cheers.

不錯的一天。很高興與您見面。請原諒?我想喜歡用“thankyou”這個詞的人應該很多。另一個我們經(jīng)常用的詞是“cheers”。因為人們經(jīng)常在碰杯的時候說“cheers”，所以這很容易讓人困惑。且在有些英語文化中，人們用“cheers”代替“goodbye”。“cheers”是“'cheerio”的縮寫。

Today many go around the streets quarter dressed; people snack when and where they like:walking in the streets, sitting on the Tube or in buses. Ours could not be called a respectfulsociety.

如今，大街上人們的穿著越來越暴露，人們隨時隨地都在吃東西：走在大街上吃，坐在地鐵里或公交上吃。我們的社會不再是互相尊重的社會。

Some argue that many people in Britain have become disrespectful. And it is especially youngpeople who are disrespectful. So who is to blame? Suzy Hayman runs a charity for parentscalled Parent Line Plus. This is what she has to say about bad manners in Britain.

有些人認為許多英國人變得很無禮，年輕人表現(xiàn)地尤為明顯。那么是誰的責任呢?蘇西·海曼經(jīng)營著一家倡導雙親家庭的慈善機構，它被叫做“Parent Line Plus”。以下就是她對英國人的不文明習慣的說法。

There isn't that much change from 50 years ago, it's just that we now hear about it more. But Ithink that one thing that is different, of course, is the pressures on a lot of parents about workand about split families. And that there are a lot of parents who are absolutely struggling.

這與50年前相比沒有太大變化，只不過我們所聽到的越來越多。當然，我想有件事是不同的，那就是來自工作和家庭分裂的壓力。許多家長正在為此而竭力掙扎。

Sue Kirkham is a head teacher of a school. This is what she thinks.

蘇·柯卡漢姆是學校的校長。以下是他對此的看法：

I think young people now are spending more time with children their own age and less time insocial settings, whether it be in the family or the community, where you've got mixed agepeople. And the demise of the family meal, and I think that is an important point, is oneaspect of this.

我認為現(xiàn)在的人與同齡人在一起時間更多，與社會其它年齡段的人士打交道較少，不論是對于混齡的家庭還是社區(qū)來說都是如此。我想家庭聚餐的減少主要因為這一點，這是一方面。