用英语学英语口语:找补找多了/找少了英语怎么说?

英语学得一塌糊涂用英语怎么说(用英语学英语口语)(1)

买东西,售货员找补时,找补找多了,或者找补找少了。你会用英语说吗?

学“找补找多/少了”英语怎么说,你是想从我这得“鱼”,还是得“渔”?

你是否想过这个问题?

还有一个问题是:中国人学英语极少把英语作为“交流工具”考虑,而只把英语作为“翻译工具”考验自己:你没学过,也没听过“找多找少”英语,“当然,不会说了”(其实,潜台词是“当然不会翻译”了)。

果然如此吗?

如果你真的只把英语作为与人交流沟通的工具,我教你怎么只用你学过的英语就把“找多找少”用英语“交流”出来。你看看我“说”的英语有哪些你不懂或没学过的。

现在,我们把“找多找少”归纳一下,再进入“考试英语”的学习:

1. Excuse me,Maam. You make a mistake.

2. You gave me more change than you should/than the correct amount of money.

3. You gave me less change than you should do/than the correct amount of money.

4. Sorry, sir. You overcharged me,or undercharged me.

其实,我们这么“练口语”,更多的不是为了“能用上”,没几个人真有机会用上,更多的不过是为了“用英语练英语能力”罢了。

2) 找少了:to short change you

你会说吗:

I later discovered that the store had short-changed me by $10.

3) 找多了:to give you extra change

说英语:short change

When you short change me, that means you make a mistake. And You gave me less change than you should do/than the correct amount of money. You undercharged me.

说英语:give extra change

When you give me extra change, that means You make a mistake and you gave me more change than you should/than the correct amount of money. You overcharged me.

真正要练好英语口语,不是简单记住“找多”就是extra change,extra change就是“找多”。

这么“学英语”,你总有一天会把extra change, short change这两个单词给忘了,然后“语塞”了!

英语学得一塌糊涂用英语怎么说(用英语学英语口语)(2)

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