见面打招呼时说“Where are you going?”有什么不妥？

????各国文化习惯不同，见面打招呼时说的话如果译成英语，我们会发现其间的差异很有趣。土耳其人见面时说Be under

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God's great power；瑞典人说How can you, friend?波斯人说May thy shadow never grow thinner；埃及人说

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How do you perspire? 阿拉伯人说Praise god, how are you ? 荷兰人说How do you fare? 而海地人说 How do

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you stand? 波兰人却说How do you have yourself today? 印度人则简单地说How?如果译成汉语，有的招呼语真能

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使人莫名其妙。譬如埃及人说How do you perspire? 意思是“你怎么出汗的”，海地人却在问“你是怎么站的？”同样

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汉语里“你吃饭了吗？”“你到哪儿去？”“你在干什么？”“你来了”都是极普通的见面打招呼的话。而在英语里见面时

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却不宜说 Have you eaten? 除非问的人想知道对方没吃就有意留他或请他吃饭。也不宜问 Where are you going?

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What are you doing? 等等，因为“去哪儿”、“干什么”都是私事，旁人没必要知道。

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????Native speakers 听了我们中国人问Where are you going? 时的反应怎么样呢？曾在北京语言学院任教的英国教

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授、作家V.G.Myer在题为The Difference between the Estern and Western Cultures 《东西方文化的差异》一文

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中写道： Another student asked me, "Have you had lunch?", which in English is a very strange

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question. I realized, however, that he was thinking in Chinese and literally translating, "Ni chi fan le

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ma? " Some questions which in Chinese belong to polite small talk are never asked in English indeed,

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they might well be considered intrusive. British children are taught it is rude to say,"Where are you

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going?"

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