| 摘 要： | 说文解字1、嘿、服务员,来个汉堡包!2、我们没有汉堡包,美国猪!3、那么来杯咖啡吧,青蛙佬!4、加点糖吧!5、我们没有糖!We are in a streetside resaurant in Paris,the"Bistro Chirac",where the tall,haughty waiterwith his nose stuck up in the air looks a bit like the president of France himself.An American tourist(Pat Oliphant's standard marionette-like caricature of"lightweight"George W.Bush)impolitely demands a hamburger;both his tone and what he asks for are an insult to the waiter;and of course,being a typical American,he automatically uses a very colloquial American English.Not speaking French is bad enoughin Paris,but just to assume,without apology,that everyone there speaks English is...unpardonable!The waiter replies in heavily accented French-English:"We do not serve the hamburger."At the same time,without for an instant losing his cool,he adds the words"American swine"in French and makes a very rude gesture.Clearly this is not a waiter looking for a tip.Bush,now upset,demands coffee instead.Again he uses the very colloquial"gimme"for"give
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