英国人如何说谢谢：Cheers登顶,Thank you遭弃

英国人如何说谢谢 英国人如何说谢谢 CheersCheers 登顶 登顶 ThankThank youyou 遭弃遭弃 所属 沪江英语 难度 适中 来源 每日邮报 阅读 13676 评论 146 分享到人人 编辑点评 编辑点评 要表达感谢时你会如何说 大多数人都会毫不迟疑地回答 Thank you 吧 那么英国人最喜 欢怎么表达呢 最新公布的一份调查显示 英国人最喜欢用的是 Cheers 而 Thank you 竟然落到了 可怜的第 20 位 中英双语中英双语 英文 中文 本文相关应用本文相关应用 贡献文章录音 背单词 鼠标划词已启用 挑错 收藏 评论 打印 If you do someone a good turn today don t expect a thank you 如果你今天帮了别人 别指望能听到一句 Thank you Cheers ta or even wicked is the more likely response if a survey is to be believed 如果这项调查得到认可 那么事实上你得到的回答更可能是 Cheers ta 甚至是 wicked Research among computer users suggests that the traditional expression of gratitude has fallen by the wayside 一项在网民中展开的调查显示 传统的致谢方式已经退出潮流了 Almost half of those polled said they now use cheers more often than thank you 投票者中将近一半的人表示 比起用 thank you 他们现在更常用 cheers Four out of ten said thank you sounded too formal so they used more catchy chatty words such as fab lovely or wicked 40 的人认为 thank you 听上去太过正式 所以他们选择使用像 fab lovely 或者 wicked 这样更加随意上口的词汇 A third said they would often just resort to a quick wave instead of saying thank you 三分之一的人更是表示 他们经常会用简单的挥手动作来代替说 thank you And 77 per cent said that any of the words used to say thanks were irrelevant believing a pleasant gesture works just as well 77 的人说用哪个词来表达谢谢都无所谓 他们相信一个亲切的动作能达到同样的效果 The poll of 3 000 people was carried out by the online gift store Me to You 这项调查由网上礼品商店 Me to You 主办 共有 3000 人参加 Spokesman Caroline Weaver said While the great British public might feel uncomfortable saying thank you these days they do like to show their gratitude in other ways 活动发言人 Caroline Weaver 表示 虽然如今广大的英国民众对说谢谢可能有些反感 但他们却愿意用其他方式来表达自己的感激之情 Respondents felt it didn t matter how you thanked someone for their kind actions as long as you did so in a friendly and polite way 受访者们认为如何感谢他人的善举并不重要 只要你是用一种友好而礼貌的方式就行 At the end of the day everyone knows that a big smile and some form of acknowledgment is all it takes to show we are grateful 说到底 大家都明白 一个大大的微笑加上随便某种形式的致谢就足以表达我们的谢意了 NOTES 1 do sb a good turn 做一件有利于某人的事 帮某人忙 例 He will do a good turn to anyone if he can 只要可能 他愿意帮任何人 2 fall by the wayside 半途而废 中途退出 例 The boys tried to make a 50 mile hike but most of them fell by the wayside 孩子们原想徒步行走 50 英里 但大多数都半途而废了 3 resort to 依靠 诉诸 求助于 例 When his wife left him he resorted to drink every day 妻子离去后 他每天 借酒消愁 4 at the end of the day 按字面意思理解就是 在一天结束之时 例 At the end of the day I just want to go home and have a good sleep 忙碌 了一整天之后 我只想回家好好睡一觉 at the end of the day 也可以相当于 at the end of anything and everything 换成通俗的方法表达就是 in the end 或 after all is said and done 也就是中文里常 用到的 说到底 说穿了 例 Don t be too hard on yourself At the end of the day you are just human and you can t always be perfect 别对自己太过苛求 说到底 你只是个普通人 不 可能永远不犯错 英国人到底有多喜欢说英国人到底有多喜欢说 cheers 来看一下其他人的见闻 来看一下其他人的见闻 There were a lot of students from different parts of England and I seem to remember almost all of them saying cheers 我们学校有很多来自英格兰各地区的学生 我貌似记得他们所有人都说 cheers I lived four years in London studied at University there and heard cheers all over the place whether on the street in pubs or at university among students 我在伦敦住了四年 在那里读的大学 无论是在大街上 酒吧里还是校园里 到处都听人 说 cheers I think Cheers meaning Thanks is slang or colloquial and I heard it hundreds of times when I lived in London It was strange to me at first but I got