"cultivated speech" "cultured Bostonians" "cultured tastes" "a genteel old lady" "polite society"
"even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"
误 Try to be more polite with him this time.
正 Try to be more polite to him this time.
你撞开了门冲进房间是不礼貌的。误 It wasn't polite for you to hammer in the door and then charged into the room.
正 It wasn't polite of you to hammer in the door and then charged into the room.
析 “对…有礼貌”英文是be polite to sb,不能用 with来代替to。在It is/was polite of sb to- v 结构中该动词不定式与polite以及句子的主语均存在逻辑上的主谓关系。
不要客气,请吃糕点。误 Don't be polite and eat the cakes yourself.
正 Make yourself at home and help yourself to the cakes.
析polite指“客气”是指人的素质,而在家待客人时说“不要客气”意思是“不要拘束”,英语中通常应该说Make yourself at home,不能说Don't be polite。表示“自己吃…”,也应该说成help oneself to,其中to是介词。
