Unit 5 Cultural Difference
Study Focus
1. Learn to define(下定义)culture shock.
2. Grasp the following structure: Once…, it’s much harder to…
3. Explain the importance of hugging a foreigner.
4. Learn how to write interoffice memos.
5. Understand the statement: Let’s get together.
Geoff Choo
杰夫·楚：Net Statistica（一个提供因特网数据和资料的网站）的高级编辑。
Surviving Culture Shock Is Key to
Working Abroad
By Geoff Choo
culture shock
“文化冲击”，人们进入不同文化环境时经历的强烈不适应、恐惧或不安全感。例如，一个人来到国外居住，便有可能经历一段时期的“文化冲击”，直到适应这种新文化为止。shock 原意是震动，冲击，休克。culture shock 因此也译为“文化休克”。
Para. 1
1. Contrary to what you may think, the hardest part of living abroad isn’t finding a place to stay or learning the language. It’s how to cope with the culture shock.
译文：
与你所想的不同，在国外生活最困难的既不是寻找住处，也不是学习当地语言，而是怎样克服“文化冲击”。
contrary to：“相反的，对抗的”
e.g.
a. His opinion is contrary to mine.
他的意见与我的意见相反。
b. Contrary to his doctor’s advice, he began to smoke again.
他不听医生的建议，又开始吸烟了。
abroad：
adv. “在（到）国外”
go abroad “出国”；
live abroad “在国外生活”；
return from abroad “从国外回来”；
home and abroad“国内外”
e.g.
a. The experts from home and abroad attended the international
conference held in Beijing.
国内外专家参加了在北京举行的这次国际会议。
b. Studying abroad may have advantages as well as disadvantages.
出国留学有利有弊。
拼写容易混淆的词：
aboard: adv. & prep.“上船，上车，上飞机”
译文：
“文化冲击”不是一系列随机的事件，它通常有五个发展阶段。
2. Culture shock dose not happen as a series of random events. It usually evolves over a series of five stages.
a series of: “一系列，一连串”
e.g.
A series of lectures on genetic engineering are delivered in this medical college.
这所医学院举行了一系列关于遗传工程的讲座。
random:
adj. “任意的，随机的” n. “随机”
e.g.
a. The dean asked some random students to join in a discussion.
院长任选几个学生参加讨论。
at random “随机地，胡乱地”
b. When he buys the lottery tickets he likes to choose numbers at random.
他买彩票时喜欢随机选号。
event: n. “ 事件，大事；比赛项目”
e.g.
a. The novel narrates the great events of the 1940s.
这部小说叙述了20世纪40年代的那些大事。
b. Finishing first in eight events, Jim Thorpe beat the whole New Mexico team.
吉姆·索普一人打败整个新墨西哥队, 在八个项目中获得第一。
与event 相关的短语：
at all events “不管怎样，无论如何”；
in any event“不管怎样，无论如何”；
in the event of (that) “万一，假若”
evolve
v. “（使）进化，（使）演化；（使）发展，
（使）演变”
e.g.
a. Hygiene has evolved into preventive medicine.
卫生学已逐步发展成为预防科学。
b. The British political system has evolved over several centuries.
英国的政治体系是经过几个世纪逐步形成的。