英语成为世界语言,英语母语者就不用再学外语?研究称外国人可以用英语自由交谈,然而母语者却往往很难让人听懂。
It was just one word in one email, but it triggered huge financial losses for a multinational company.
那只是一封电子邮件中的一个字,但是却导致一家跨国公司经受了巨大的金融损失。
The message, written in English, was sent by a native speaker to a colleague for whom English was a second language. Unsure of the word, the recipient found two contradictory meanings in his dictionary. He acted on the wrong one.
这封邮件由英语写成,由一名英语母语者发给一名英语是第二语言的同事。由于不清楚这个词的含义,收信人查了字典,找到了两个矛盾的解释。但是他却选择了错误的那一个!