Castudy及参考答案
Ca 1
Xie Li and Tom have been working on a scientific experiment at a British university for some months. It has not been totally successful. They are discussing the situation in the laboratory.
Xie Li: I don?t know where it went wrong!
Tom: Don?t feel so bad. Cheer up; you?ve done your job.
Xie Li: But our experiment has turned out to be a failure.
Tom: Relax for a couple of days. I?ll face the music.
Xie Li: Tom, we are not playing children?s games here. This is a scientific experiment. Tom: I?ve never taken the experiment as child?s play, and I?m playing the game.
Xie Li: You say you?re playing the game! It?s a rather important experiment!
Xie Li walks out of the laboratory angrily. Tom is puzzled.
Key:
Idiomatic phras are often misunderstood. In E nglish …face the music? means: to face the reality and take the conquence; while …play the game? means: abide completion rules. Here Xie Li misinterpreted the idiomatic phras Tom ud. First he thought that Tom didn?t take the failure of the experiment riously and wanted to escape from it, becau he said he would “face the music”
Secondly, he misinterpreted Tom?s …playing the game? as that he hadn?t done the experiment riously, which might have led to the failure.
Ca 2
In 1997, a Danish woman left her 14-month-old baby girl in a stroller outside a Manhattan restaurant while she was inside. Other diners at the restaurant became concerned and called New York City Police. The woman was charged with endangering a child and was j
ailed for two nights. Her child was placed in foster care. The woman and the Danish consulate explained that leaving children unattended outside cafes is common in Denmark. Pictures were wired to the police showing numerous strollers parked outside cafes while parents were eating inside.
Key:
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s preconceived notion, one of the barriers to the effective int左手腕有痣
ercultural communication----assuming similarity instead of difference. In American culture, it is illegal for parents to leave their baby alone while it is commonplace for parents to do so in Danish culture. The Danish woman had assumed that Copenhagen is similar to New York, that what is commonly done in Copenhagen is also commonly done in New York.
Ca 3
Mr. Wang, the Chairman of Board of Directors of a Chine firm, told a story on CCTV program "Dialogue" of how he once almost lost a valuable Canadian employee working f
or him in Vancouver. He emailed every day to the Canadian, inquiring for the index number he was most concerned about. To his great astonishment, his Canadian employee turned in his resignation after a week. Mr. Wang was puzzled how he could do that to him as he gave such great attention to his job.
Key:
The resignation of Canadian employee resulted from the communication barrier due to the preconception of Mr. Wang, the Chairman of Board of Directors. Mr. Wang assumed unconsciously tha心理健康顺口溜
t the Canadian was more similar to his Chine employees than he actually was and treated him just as he treated any Chine employee. A Chine employee would have been more than happy if his or her boss had showed such great concern for him or her. But Mr. Wang found out that, unlike Chine employees, the Canadian took what meant great concern to Chine as distrust.
