每天三分钟学英语 第546期:在国外遇到种族歧视该怎么办?你至少要会说这几句!(在线收听

 

比如当我们在国外一家店里遭到了歧视,最佳办法是去找他们的经理:

客人A: Hey, are you the manager? I have a complaint about one of your employees.

嘿,你是经理吗?我要投诉你们这里的一位员工。

经理B: Yes, I'm the manager. Please tell me what happened.

是的,我就是经理。请告诉我发生了什么。

I have a complaint about…

我要投诉…;我对…有意见

这里complaint是complain的名词形式,而complain是动词。

投诉对象可以是个人,也可以是物,或者事。

举个例子:

① The food was good, but I have a compalint about the service. It's too slow.

食物很不错,但是我要投诉一下服务。太慢了。

② I have a complaint about the opening paragraph. I think it's too long and boring.

我对开头一段有意见。我觉得太长太无聊了。

经理询问要投诉谁,客人指出了那个种族歧视的人:

客人A: See that guy over there? He made a racist comment about me. It was very offensive.

看到那边那个人了吗?他对我说了种族歧视的话。非常冒犯人。

经理B: Racist? How so? We take racism here very seriously.

种族歧视?怎么回事?我们这里对种族歧视是非常严肃对待的。

当有人说了关于“种族歧视”的言论,就可以用这个句式表达出来:

Make a racist comment about

对…发表种族歧视的言论

· Make a comment = 发表言论

· Make a racist comment about + 人 = 发表了针对“某人”的种族歧视言论

举两个例子:

① Everyone's mad because the CEO made a racist comment about African Americans.

所有人都很生气,因为CEO对非裔美国人发表了种族主义言论。

② My coworker makes racist comments about Asians all the time and HR does nothing about it.

我的同事总是对亚洲人发表种族歧视的言论,而人力资源部门却什么也没做。

说明对方说了“种族歧视”的话,还是再加一句,说明一下:

It was very offensive.

这非常无礼/非常冒犯人

在口语中的举例:

① The ad made fun of Chinese people. It was very offensive.

这则广告嘲笑中国人。非常冒犯人。

② I saw the movie and it was very offensive. Theyportrayed Americans as very dumb.

我看了这部电影,非常冒犯人。他们把美国人描绘成非常愚蠢的人。

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