L6 Culture Shock
1.Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad.Like most diseases，it has its own symptoms
culture shock：文化震蕩
eg：John found life in China a bit of a culture shock at first.
約翰剛來時感到不太能適應中國的生活。
eg：It was too late，he had to stay overnight at the station.
2.In recovery，you learn the systems，procedures，language，or nonverbal behaviors of the new environment so that you can cope with it
cope with：deal with處理
3.Those signs or cues include the thousand and one ways with which we are familiar in the situation of daily life：
the/a thousand and one許許多多
eg：Please don't interrupt.I have got a thousand and one things to do this morning.
請不要打攪，我今早有一大堆事要做。
4.All of us depend for our peace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues，often without our conscious awareness
depend on sb./sth.（for sth.）：依靠，依賴……而獲得
eg：The country depends on its oil-rich neighbours for its oil supply.
這個國家依靠其石油豐富的鄰國供應石油。
eg：The man cannot read and write，and he depends on TV and radio for news.
這人不識字，他靠電視機和收音機獲取新聞。
5.No matter how broad-minded a series of props have been knocked from under you，followed by a feeling of frustration and anxiety.
No matter how broad-minded：No matter how不管怎樣，broad-minded開通的6.People react to too many privileges——for example，when parents send a child to an expensive summer camp that parents can't really affo
react （to）起反應
eg：The eye reacts to strong light.眼睛對強光有反應。
eg：The teacher's encouragement reacted on him.老師的鼓勵對他起了作用
7 First they reject the environment which causes the discomfort.
reject：to refuse to accept拒絕
eg：She refused to come with us. 她拒絕同我們一起來。
8.When foreigners in a strange land get together to grumble about the host country and its people，you can be sure they are suffering from culture shock.
grumble （to sb.） about/at/over sb./sth.：complain （to sb.） about sb./sth.in a bad-tempered way 發(fā)牢騷，抱怨
eg：A lot of students grumble about heavy reading assignments. 許多學生發(fā)牢騷說閱讀量太大。
eg：The people in that country are always grumbling about the dry weather.那個國家的人們一直干旱的天氣。9.Another symptom of culture shock is regression their children's unreasonable demands
regression：倒退，退縮
eg：At first she seemed to have given up smoking，but when she heard that her husband had lost all the money they had in gambling，she regressed.
起初，她好像已經(jīng)戒了煙，可自從聽說她的丈夫在一次賭博中把所有的錢輸光之后，她又抽上了。
10.Such parents vacillate between saying no and giving in——but neither response seems satisfactory to them
vacillate between：（正式）猶疑
eg：She vacillated between her two admirers.
在兩個追求者之間，她舉棋不定。
1.Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad.Like most diseases，it has its own symptoms
culture shock：文化震蕩
eg：John found life in China a bit of a culture shock at first.
約翰剛來時感到不太能適應中國的生活。
eg：It was too late，he had to stay overnight at the station.
2.In recovery，you learn the systems，procedures，language，or nonverbal behaviors of the new environment so that you can cope with it
cope with：deal with處理
3.Those signs or cues include the thousand and one ways with which we are familiar in the situation of daily life：
the/a thousand and one許許多多
eg：Please don't interrupt.I have got a thousand and one things to do this morning.
請不要打攪，我今早有一大堆事要做。
4.All of us depend for our peace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues，often without our conscious awareness
depend on sb./sth.（for sth.）：依靠，依賴……而獲得
eg：The country depends on its oil-rich neighbours for its oil supply.
這個國家依靠其石油豐富的鄰國供應石油。
eg：The man cannot read and write，and he depends on TV and radio for news.
這人不識字，他靠電視機和收音機獲取新聞。
5.No matter how broad-minded a series of props have been knocked from under you，followed by a feeling of frustration and anxiety.
No matter how broad-minded：No matter how不管怎樣，broad-minded開通的6.People react to too many privileges——for example，when parents send a child to an expensive summer camp that parents can't really affo
react （to）起反應
eg：The eye reacts to strong light.眼睛對強光有反應。
eg：The teacher's encouragement reacted on him.老師的鼓勵對他起了作用
7 First they reject the environment which causes the discomfort.
reject：to refuse to accept拒絕
eg：She refused to come with us. 她拒絕同我們一起來。
8.When foreigners in a strange land get together to grumble about the host country and its people，you can be sure they are suffering from culture shock.
grumble （to sb.） about/at/over sb./sth.：complain （to sb.） about sb./sth.in a bad-tempered way 發(fā)牢騷，抱怨
eg：A lot of students grumble about heavy reading assignments. 許多學生發(fā)牢騷說閱讀量太大。
eg：The people in that country are always grumbling about the dry weather.那個國家的人們一直干旱的天氣。9.Another symptom of culture shock is regression their children's unreasonable demands
regression：倒退，退縮
eg：At first she seemed to have given up smoking，but when she heard that her husband had lost all the money they had in gambling，she regressed.
起初，她好像已經(jīng)戒了煙，可自從聽說她的丈夫在一次賭博中把所有的錢輸光之后，她又抽上了。
10.Such parents vacillate between saying no and giving in——but neither response seems satisfactory to them
vacillate between：（正式）猶疑
eg：She vacillated between her two admirers.
在兩個追求者之間，她舉棋不定。