书籍介绍
这并非一本正经的英国文化指南，而是一位英国作者拿着放大镜，把本国的国民性摊开来供人取笑。它用冷幽默的笔调，把排队、茶、抱怨、礼貌、口音、冷笑话这些日常细节，提炼成一套
作者简介
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) have together sold over 190,000 copies. In 2009 they published their fourth book, "Mrs Joyce Hoover's How Do You Do".
AI导读
核心看点
- 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
读者共识
- 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
精彩摘录
- "Why is English the world’s ‘dream’ language? Well, for one thing our grammar is so sensible, dependable and straightforward. Most languages have two or three forms for you, depending on status, intimacy, and so on. English, democratically, has only one. Also English has done away with all that unnec"
- "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."
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用户评论
多谢友邻SDT的分享!!!!
有人辛苦扫描上来了哦，图文并茂狠好玩狠好理解！http://www.douban.com/photos/album/77781359/
British ，Karl , change me a lot.lol
在大英博物館書店買的小書，也只有英國人才有這樣的氣量和文筆可以在每一處讓人忍俊不禁的自黑中展現出強大文化自信。
在腐国买的第一本书！从此拉开爱上面瘫腐国人的开端
看似自黑无下限，实则隐藏着对帝国旧日荣光的自信。
看英国人一本正经自嘲真的很有趣
第一次去英国在大英博物馆的纪念品看到的，当即买下作为我的厕所读物。乐死了，British humour!
太好玩了
英式冷笑话集，英国佬：要我讲美式，除非我喝死🌚
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