1- True Brit
2- Arrival
3- The Telephone Box
4- Dress Sense
5- Tea
6- Complaining
7- Politeness
8- Speak Slowly
9- Pronunciation
10- Top Tongue
11- Sense of Humour
12- Body Idioms
13- Terms of Endearment
14- Learning by Doing
15- Pubs
16- Meeting and Greeting
17- Test You English
18- Real English
19- The Bathroom
20- Bed
21- Pets
22- Heavenly Hosts
23- Enjoy Your Meal!
24- Fish and Chips
25- The Mighty Spud
26- Asking the Way
27- Driving
28- Mind the Gap
29- Ye Olde Britain
30- Queuing
31- Shopping
32- Departing
Martyn Ford, writer and illustrator, comes from Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands. Peter Legon, writer and publisher, was brought up in Liverpool and Leeds. In the 1990s they were colleagues at the same Brighton language school, where they first got the idea for Lee Gone Publications. The "How To Be British Collection" (2003) and "How To Be British Collection" Two (2005) ha...
- 以幽默漫画形式解构英国文化
- 涵盖排队、喝茶等经典英式生活
- 通过自嘲展现独特的民族自信
- 对英国文化及冷幽默感兴趣的读者
- 希望了解英式生活细节的留学生
- 喜欢轻松图文阅读体验的读者
- 建议结合英式幽默背景阅读
- 注意书中对日常礼仪的讽刺
- 适合碎片时间翻阅，轻松解压
- 图文并茂，内容生动有趣易懂
- 自嘲风格淋漓尽致，令人忍俊不禁
- 展现英国人独特的文化自信与幽默
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
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- "Most people have to die before they go to Paradise, but you've been there, and you're still alive!"
- "How can even the most diligent foreign learner of English hope to acquire this vast vocabulary? The only sure way is by having a Bristish friend to practise it with. And the best kind of freind to guide you on this journey of linguistic discovery is a romantic one... A warning, however: the foreign "
- "The chips symbolise our people: no two chips are the same, but we are united because we are all cut from the same bag of potatos, all deep-fried in the same oil."
- "And queuing is an opportunity to review your life, or at least your purchases. A queue in a shop can provide important cooling off time for the hot-headed shopper ("What am I doing? I don't really want this red PVC mini-skirt!")"
- "This supper should be eaten almost immediately, with the fingers, walking along the street, preferably in the dark, and with a light drizzle falling."