大部分外国人眼中的中国是怎样的?(2)美国和墨西哥的人
In the article last week I summarized the comments and things that foreigners say or think about China. These foreigners are the ones that live in Mexico or USA and have never traveled to China or almost anywhere else in the world.
在上周的文章里面我总结了一部分的外国人是怎么描述和想象中国的,这些外国人主要是生活在墨西哥或者美国,从来没有踏足过中国,甚至世界其它国家。
In this article I am going to enlist the most common things that people say or think about China but from foreigners that have lived China, have done business with China or that have travel to many places in the world.
在这篇文章里面,我将会总结另一部分外国人对于中国最普遍的的认识,这些外国人都在中国生活过,在中国做生意,或者曾经去过很多世界其他地方。
The answers are completely different and I think very interesting to share with you.
答案非常有意思,两者截然不同。
The Top 10 answers: What can you tell me about China:
“你能告诉我关于中国的什么呢?”的前10位答案:
1. A Country with unbelievable growth, difficult to explain. (Need to see it to believe it!)
一个有着不可思议的增长速度的国家,很难解释,要亲眼见到才能相信!
2. A Country that has plenty of business opportunities, where you find many inexpensive things that can be exported and sold in our countries for an interest.
一个拥有大量商机的国家,你可以在这里找到很多低价的商品出口到自己的国家,然后销售获利。
3. China is more modern than most people believe. A place where in record time many high rises can be built, a new town can be born. This would take 2 to 3 years and in our countries would take at least 10.
中国比大部分人想象的更加现代。这里短时间内可以有多座大楼拔地而起,一座新的城市由此诞生。在中国2到3年可以完成的事情,在我们的国家需要至少10年。
4. The language of China is extremely difficult but there are a lot of Chinese than can speak English. More than the people realize.
中文非常难懂,但是这里有很多人都能说英文,比想象的还要多。
5. The food is great when you know where to go and what to eat, but for most foreigners than have been to this country or that have lived in China still is challenging to get used to.
如果你知道去哪里吃饭以及如何点菜的话,食物会非常棒。但是对于大部分到过中国的外国人来说,要习惯中国生活还是件很有挑战性的事情。
6. The prices in China for Hotels and services are not cheap anymore
中国酒店以及服务的价格不再便宜
7. What an incredible infrastructure change has happened in the last few years (5) Airports and Fast Speed Train
在过去5年里面,基础设施的建设发展程度令人难以置信,包括机场和高铁。
8. China will be the top economy in the world pretty soon! Maybe even before than what the economist predict
中国将很快成为世界顶级经济体!也许比经济学家预测的还要快。
9. I don’t like the fact that the Chinese currency is getting strong. All things are getting more expensive, they cost me more dollars or pesos.
我非常不喜欢人民币升值。所有的东西都变得更贵了,它们让我们花费更多的美金或者比索。
10. What can we sell to the Chinese people? That would be the REAL business!
我们能够把什么卖给中国消费者?这才是真正的生意!
As you can see the answers given demonstrate an absolute difference with the other group that gave very vague answers. There are a lot more answers, some funny, some politically oriented and some culturally oriented but I prefer not to mention any of these because I do not want anyone to misinterpret them or take them negatively.
There may be some other time when I would mention them just to have soothing to laugh about!
正如你看到的,这些答案和另外一组模糊不清的答案截然不同。当然还有更多的答案,搞笑的、政治的、文化的,但是我不打算聊这些了,因为我不想任何人误解或者往消极的方向猜想。如果有机会的话,我会和你提起它们,但只是为了开怀大笑!
翻译:耿海波
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