Unit11 Could you please lend me your pen? Asking for information or help is a very common and necessary activity,especially when we visit a foreign country. So knowing how to ask for information politely is important. In English ,where are the restrooms?and Counld you please tell me where the restroomsare? Are similar requests- both are correct English,but the first could sound rude. It’s important to use correct language,but sometime this alone is not enogh-we need to lean how to be polite when we make requestes. In English,just like in Chinese , we change the way we speak when talking with different people. The experssionsyou use might depend on whom you are speaking to or how well you know them. If you say to your teacher ,Where is my book? Your question will sound much more polite. On the other hand,it might be alright to to say Where is my book? In some situations,perhaps with people you know well. And you would not usually say, Peter ,lend me your pen. A very dirct order like this can sound rude in English. Usually in English polite questions are longer and include extra language such as Could you pleas….?or Can I ask```? It sounds more polite to say, Peter, Could you pleasa lend me your pen? Sometimes we might even need to spend some time leading in to a question or request, for example,if you stop a stranger in the street,we might first say, Excuse me, I wonder if you can help me or I’m sorry to truble you but, before asking them for help. It might seem that speaking politely is more difficutew than being direct,and in a way this may be true. However,in order not to offend people,learning about language eiquette is just as better ai English, or any other language you wish to speak.
尋求信息或幫助是壹種很常見並且必須的活動，特別是當我們去外國參觀時。因此了解怎樣禮貌地表示請求是非常重要的。英語中，“洗手間在哪裏？”和“妳能告訴我洗手間在哪兒嗎？”是類似的請求，都是正確的，但第壹句聽起來很不禮貌。運用正確的語言是很重要的，但有時僅僅這樣是不夠的，我們需要學習當我們提出請求時怎樣才能做到有禮貌。 像漢語壹樣在英語中，我們與不同的人說話時采用不同的說話方式。妳所使用的表達取決於妳跟誰說話，或者我對他們的熟悉程度。如果妳跟妳的老師說：“我的書在哪兒？”這聽起來很粗魯。但如果妳說：“請問，韋斯特先生，您知道我的書在哪兒嗎？”妳的問話聽起來就禮貌得多。另壹方面，在壹些情景下如果對妳非常熟悉的人說：“我的書在哪兒？”也是可以的。 並且妳通常不會說：“彼得，把妳的筆借給我用壹下！”英語中像這樣的非常直接的命令聽起來很粗魯。通常英語中有禮貌的問題很長，包括額外的言語如：“請妳…？”或者：“我能問…？”說：“彼得，把我的筆借給我用壹下，好嗎？”聽起來更禮貌。有時在提出壹個總是或請求之前，我們甚至可能需要花費更多的時間，比如，如果妳在路上遇到壹個陌生人，在向他們尋求幫助之前我們應該先說：“請問，我想知道妳是否能幫助我”或“很抱歉打擾妳壹下但……” 似乎禮貌地說比直接表達更困難，而且在某程度上這確實是真的。然而，為了不冒犯人，學習語言禮儀方面的知識就像學習語法或詞匯壹樣重要。而且這麽作也幫助妳更好地掌握英語，或者任何其他妳想說的語言