精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Unit 5Speaking Chinese in America在美国说中文Once, at a dinner on the Monterey Peninsula, California, my mother whispered to me confidentially: Sau-sau (brothers wife) pretends too hard to be a polite recipient! Why bother with such nominal courtesy? In the end, she always takes everything.有一次，在加州蒙特雷半岛上用餐时，我母亲私下悄悄地对我说：“嫂嫂想做个彬彬有礼的客人，但是装得太厉害了！何必费劲讲究形式上的客套呢？到最后她还是什么都要。”My mother acted like a waixiao, an emigrant, no longer patient with old taboos and courtesies. To p
