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【kaka礼节美语】124 西方人也迷信! 1
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来自中国的雇员Sue跟男同事Pete和女同事Julie一起去吃饭。
Pete: Hey Sue! Don't walk under that ladder...it's bad luck!
Sue: Julie, Is he serious?
Julie: Kind of. There is an old tradition in the West that says it's bad luck.
S: You mean a superstition?
J: Yes, I guess it is a superstition.
S: But, Julie...you're from the UK and Pete is American! I thought Western people weren't superstitious!
Pete: Actually, many of us are. ---1---.
Pete警告Sue不要从梯子下面走,It's bad luck. 会带来坏运气。 Superstition迷信。Julie是英国人,Pete是美国人,原来,西方人也迷信。
S: Wow...I always thought Westerners considered superstitions old-fashioned. My family is Chinese; almost all of us are very superstitious.
Julie: Well, I think the superstitions might be different, but pretty much every country in the world has them.
S: Is the number "four" unlucky in the West?
J: No...I don't think so.
P: Um...wait. Why is the number "four" bad?
S: In Chinese the pronunciation of the "four" sounds a lot like the word for "death."
P: Oh, I can see why that would be bad.
Sue原以为,西方人觉得迷信是old-fashioned, 守旧过时的,只有中国人迷信,没想到,其实西方人也迷信,但是东西方迷信的内容不同。
J: We might be OK with the number "four" but some Western people think "thirteen" is an unlucky number.
P: That's true. ---2---.
S: Ha! That's funny! In many Chinese places they do exactly the same thing with the fourth floor! But why is thirteen unlucky?
J: Well, it's not too clear how that happened...but it probably has something to do with twelve being a lucky number.
西方人不忌讳“四”,但是忌讳“十三”,很多大楼因此没有十三层,用12A来代替。Sue说,中国也有类似做法。不过,在西方文化里,“十三”为什么不吉利呢?Julie说,大概是因为“十三”前面的“十二”是一个lucky number,特别吉利的数字。
J: ---3---.
S: But thirteen is not?
P: Yeah...---4---. That's considered to be a super unlucky day.
S: Yeah. I saw a horror movie called "Friday the 13" once!
J: Yeah! That's a great horror movie!
在西方,很多传说和故事里,十二都是吉祥数字,可十三却代表着厄运,如果哪个月的十三号正好又是星期五的话,一定要小心。
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