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No Sense of Personal Space

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ID: 4035 Upper Intermediate
The idea of personal space and etiquette can differ across different across countries and cultures. Listen to someone vent about how people have no respect for manners of personal space anymore.
Thu Sep 14 2017 | Constance Fang, Fiona Tian
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
待 dài to treat
大呼小叫 dàhūxiǎojiào to make a fuss
炸毛 zhàmáo hair-raising; infuriating
先是 xiānshì firstly
我要搬回我老家了！这鬼地方我待不下去了！
wǒ yào bān huí wǒ lǎojiā le ！zhè guǐ dìfang wǒ dāi bù xiàqu le ！
I want to move back to our old family home! I can't stay in this hellish place any longer!
怎么啦？别在那大呼小叫的，谁又惹你炸毛了？
zěnme la ？bié zài nà dàhūxiǎojiào de ，shéi yòu rě nǐ zhàmáo le ？
What's wrong? Don't cause a scene, who has got your back up this time?
我大呼小叫？我刚刚开车出门，先是路上打方向灯要右转，后方来车居然加速超前右转，差点就擦到我的车了！接着下车到便利店买点喝的，我才把冰箱门打开，旁边那小子竟然一伸手拿了我要的那罐茶就走！
wǒ dàhūxiǎojiào ？wǒ gānggāng kāichē chūmén ，xiān shì lùshang dǎ fāngxiàngdēng yào yòu zhuǎn ，hòufāng lái chē jūrán jiāsù chāoqián yòu zhuǎn ，chàdiǎn jiù cā dào wǒ de chē le ！jiē zhe xiàchē dào biànlìdiàn mǎi diǎnr hē de ，wǒ cái bǎ bīngxiāng mén dǎkāi ，pángbiān nà xiǎozi jìngrán yī shēnshǒu ná le wǒ yào de nà guàn chá jiù zǒu ！
I'm causing a scene? I was just driving from home, and I was signaling right, and a car came suddenly accelerated from behind and overtook me to turn right. He almost hit me! Then when I got out of the car to buy something to drink at a convenience store, I'd just opened the door to the fridge when a little hoodlum stretched out his arm from beside me to take the bottle of tea I wanted.
这你就不懂了，中国人讲的是集体主义，讲效率，你冰箱门都开好了，还没伸手，他看有空档就先下手了，免得等会儿他还得再开一次门。
zhè nǐ jiù bù dǒng le ，Zhōngguórén jiǎng de shì jítǐzhǔyì ，jiǎng xiàolǜ ，nǐ bīngxiāng mén dōu kāi hǎo le ，hái méi shēnshǒu ，tā kàn yǒu kòngdǎng jiù xiān xiàshǒu le ，miǎnde děng huǐr tā hái děi zài kāi yīcì mén 。
You don't even understand this? Chinese people talk in terms of collectivism and efficacy. With the door to the fridge already open, and you not having stretched out your arm yet, he made the first move when he saw the free opportunity, to avoid having to open the door again.
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