英美差异：最让英国人恼火的的美式英语

djt000

BBC杂志发表了一篇关于美式英语入侵英国的文章，引起了很多英国人的共鸣。读者纷纷发来电子邮件，说出最困扰自己、最让自己恼火的美式英语表达。此前我们已经给大家带来了BBC精选的各种英国人对美式英语的吐槽，在此来做个汇总，让你更清晰地看到英英与美英间的不同！

中文	英式	美式
1. 我想要一个……	May I have a...	Can I get a...
2. 最佳选择	the best option	least worst option
3. 两倍，三倍	double, triple	two-time, three-time
4. 整天，每天	all day, every day	24/7
5. 下飞机	disembark	deplane
6. 等待	wait for	wait on
7. 腰包	bum bag/hip pack	Fanny pack
8. 联系	meet/talk to	touch base
9. 物质性	the physical nature of	physicality
10. 交通工具	transport	transportation
11. 过20岁生日	celebrate the 20th birthday	turn 20
12. 购物手推车	shopping trolley	shopping cart
13. get的过去分词	got	gotten
14. 我很好。	I'm well.	I'm good.
15. 刘海	fringe	bangs
16. 外卖	takeaway	take-out
17. 荒谬	ridiculousness	ridiculosity
18. 半小时	half an hour	a half hour
19. 提醒	give notice/inform	heads up
20. 火车站	railway station	train station

21. 按照字母顺序排	to put a list into alphabetical order	to alphabetize it
22. 我错了。	I'm sorry for my mistake.	my bad
23. 正常状态	normality	Normalcy
24. 盗窃	burgle	burglarize
25. 经常	often	oftentimes
26. 饭店	restaurant	eatery
27. 两周	fortnightly	biweekly
28. 候选人，替代人	alternative	alternate
29. 提高价格	increase a price	hike a price
30. 今后	in future	going forward
31. 150万	one and a half million	a million and a half
32. 询问	ask	reach out to
33. 你来算。	You do the maths.	You do the math.
34. 中杯咖啡	a medium sized coffee	a regular coffee
35. 截止，满期	expiry	expiration
36. 苏格兰-爱尔兰后裔	Scot-Irish	Scotch-Irish
37. 这会让你得到教训的。	That'll teach you.	That'll learn you.
38. 它在哪儿？	Where is it?	Where's it at?
39. 句号	full stop	period
40. 最大赢家	the best/most successful	the winningest
41. 问题	problem	issue
42. 赢得奖牌	to win a medal	to medal

43. 我免费拿到的。	I got it free.	I got it for free.
44. 现在	now	already
45. 我最关心。	I couldn't care less.	I could care less.

还有一句美式英语：It is what it is.（该是什么就是什么。）美剧中经常出现，那么它的英式表达呢？There is no British way of saying this… it means nothing! 好吧，英国人觉得这个说法毫无意义！

wendy_1985

很实用啊，可惜我不是中学生了。。。。。