P：Have you adapted to the lifestyle in China?

你適應(yīng)了中國的生活方式了嗎?

K：Yeah, almost. But there is one thing.

嗯,差不多,只是...

P：What?

只是什么呢?

K：I still wonder what privacy meant for Chinese people. I don't mean to say that there's no privacy in China, but...

我還是不明白隱私對中國人到底意味著什么.當(dāng)然我并不是說中國沒有隱私,只是...

P：What is it?

怎么了?

K：Some of my Chinese colleagues just share their personal stories in front of others.

有些中國同事在別人面前還談?wù)撍饺说氖虑?

P：That makes you feel uncomfortable?

讓你感覺很不舒服?

K：Yeah. we never do that in a public office.

是啊.我們從來不在公共辦公室里談?wù)撍绞?

P：Perhaps that's because we hold different ideas about privacy.

也許是因?yàn)槲覀兊碾[私的認(rèn)識不一樣吧.

K：I have felt that. One day when i was in a queue, reading a newspaper story, the man behind me peered through my shoulder and stared at the newspaper I was holding.

我已經(jīng)感覺到了.有一天我排隊(duì)的時候在讀報(bào)紙,站在我身后的人就隔著我的肩膀,看起我手中的報(bào)紙.

P：Well, that's not rare. I've seen people reading at others' newspaper while taking a metro or a bus.

哦,這可不新奇.我就看到過有人坐地鐵或公交車的時候讀別人的報(bào)紙.

K：Just stare at the newspaper holding in the hands of the one next to him?

就盯著旁邊那人手里的報(bào)紙那樣看?

P：Yeah.

對.

K：Oh, I'm shocked.

哦,我覺得挺吃驚的.