3分鐘學(xué)英語 [546]:在國(guó)外遇到種族歧視該怎么辦?你至少要會(huì)說這幾句!

比如當(dāng)我們?cè)趪?guó)外一家店里遭到了歧視，最佳辦法是去找他們的經(jīng)理：

客人A: Hey, are you the manager? I have a complaint about one of your employees.
嘿，你是經(jīng)理嗎?我要投訴你們這里的一位員工。
經(jīng)理B: Yes, I'm the manager. Please tell me what happened.
是的，我就是經(jīng)理。請(qǐng)告訴我發(fā)生了什么。
I have a complaint about…
我要投訴…;我對(duì)…有意見
這里complaint是complain的名詞形式，而complain是動(dòng)詞。
投訴對(duì)象可以是個(gè)人，也可以是物，或者事。
舉個(gè)例子：
① The food was good, but I have a compalint about the service. It's too slow.
食物很不錯(cuò)，但是我要投訴一下服務(wù)。太慢了。
② I have a complaint about the opening paragraph. I think it's too long and boring.
我對(duì)開頭一段有意見。我覺得太長(zhǎng)太無聊了。
經(jīng)理詢問要投訴誰，客人指出了那個(gè)種族歧視的人：
客人A: See that guy over there? He made a racist comment about me. It was very offensive.
看到那邊那個(gè)人了嗎?他對(duì)我說了種族歧視的話。非常冒犯人。
經(jīng)理B: Racist? How so? We take racism here very seriously.
種族歧視?怎么回事?我們這里對(duì)種族歧視是非常嚴(yán)肅對(duì)待的。
 

 

 

當(dāng)有人說了關(guān)于“種族歧視”的言論，就可以用這個(gè)句式表達(dá)出來：
Make a racist comment about
對(duì)…發(fā)表種族歧視的言論
· Make a comment = 發(fā)表言論
· Make a racist comment about + 人 = 發(fā)表了針對(duì)“某人”的種族歧視言論
舉兩個(gè)例子：
① Everyone's mad because the CEO made a racist comment about African Americans.
所有人都很生氣，因?yàn)镃EO對(duì)非裔美國(guó)人發(fā)表了種族主義言論。
② My coworker makes racist comments about Asians all the time and HR does nothing about it.
我的同事總是對(duì)亞洲人發(fā)表種族歧視的言論，而人力資源部門卻什么也沒做。
說明對(duì)方說了“種族歧視”的話，還是再加一句，說明一下：
It was very offensive.
這非常無禮/非常冒犯人
在口語中的舉例：
① The ad made fun of Chinese people. It was very offensive.
這則廣告嘲笑中國(guó)人。非常冒犯人。
② I saw the movie and it was very offensive. Theyportrayed Americans as very dumb.
我看了這部電影，非常冒犯人。他們把美國(guó)人描繪成非常愚蠢的人。

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