The last couple of weeks have been a bit of an eye-opener for me. A new colleague arrived in my office, and it’s made me cast my mind back to the first few weeks of my time here in China. 前几个星期算是让我小开眼界了。一个新同事来了。很多情景让我回想起我刚到中国的那几个星期。 I was super-excited when I arrived in Shanghai 20 months ago – so excited [...]
When my sister and I used to go on holiday in France, we’d sometimes pass the time by finding funny ‘Frenglish’ t-shirts. They’re the ones which, although they might make some sort of grammatical sense, they just sound weird or funny. Our everlasting favourite was: 以前我跟我姐姐一起去法国度假的时候，我们有时会靠找有趣的‘法式英语体恤’来消磨时光。他们就是会有一定的语法的意义，可是就是听起来很滑稽好玩。我们曾经百笑不厌的最喜欢的一个是： “If it breaks, I will ride it” ‘如有破浪，我即乘风而去。’ I [...]
