中英之鑒 中式英語(yǔ)之鑒162

[誤] The advice I would like to provide the young people with is to use their ears more than their mouths.

[正] The advice I would like to provide the young people with is to be swift to hear but slow to speak.

注：中文是用“耳朵”和“嘴”來(lái)指行為，很有特點(diǎn);而英文用的是形容詞與動(dòng)詞不定式的組合，既對(duì)稱(chēng)又對(duì)比鮮

明。