前不久，微博上小火了一個(gè)話題：美國(guó)人有多愛(ài)夸人？各種有過(guò)一線經(jīng)歷的網(wǎng)友都出來(lái)現(xiàn)身說(shuō)法，這才發(fā)現(xiàn)，好像真的是這么一回事，美國(guó)人的確是這樣一言不合就 You are great!

最基本的路數(shù)應(yīng)該就是夸包、夸鞋子、夸衣服的：

I was checking in at Krabi Airpot and a foreigner came to tell me that my bag looked great! But in fact it was a ￥39 folk-style rope-bag which I bought on Taobao (postage covered).

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk, one day I was walking on the street, and someone suddenly step over to tell me my skirt was nice!

Another day I was carrying a bag and got a compliment on it, saying it was cute!

And there was even a time that my glasses got circulating among a group of people with each of them taking selfies wearing it. There must have been about 300 selfies. What can I say?

It's true. For the last few days here have been 20 people telling that my shoes looks beautiful, including some teachers and class advisers.

上面這些只是基本款，還有進(jìn)階款。有的美國(guó)人夸起衣服來(lái)，那真的十分離奇，你都不知道自己是不是在做夢(mèng)：

How much do the American love to compliment people?

My friend was taking a dump in a public toilet and the person in the next cell knocked on the wall to tell her that her shoes looked nice.

That day I was tying my shoes in a squat position, and somebody told me that my briefs looked good.

對(duì)于初到美國(guó)的人，有時(shí)候都不明白到底怎么反應(yīng)才好。

更何況，有的美國(guó)人還不僅僅滿足于夸衣服，一定要深刻地夸你的長(zhǎng)相，而且夸的技法還五花八門(mén)。

My eyelids are single-fold. You won't even see my eyes if I smile. Yet, some Americans told me that my eyes are beautiful? Beautiful like stars???

Hahahahahahahhahahaha, I met 3 black girls in New York and they told me that I was an angel, that woke their ears like a beam of sunshine.

This is real. Once I was in a theme park. When I went to buy cupcakes my hair was totally wet. Yet the salesperson said I was beautiful and asked me if I had a boyfriend.

The last time I went out with a male friend of mine, a black woman lowered her car's window when she passed us and yelled at my friend through the wind "腿！真！好！看！".

真的是，只有你拿不出手的，沒(méi)有美國(guó)人夸不了的。

仔細(xì)一翻微博，發(fā)現(xiàn)玄幻的經(jīng)歷還真的不少，單純夸臉、夸腿根本滿足不了美國(guó)人：

I fell down on my face when I was snowboarding. And the Amercian on the cable car above whistled at me and said "I like your snowboard"......

In the first class of my swimming course, I was breathing out underwater. When I got up the teacher complimented me saying "剛剛的泡泡很好看".

說(shuō)真的，簡(jiǎn)直就好像是，不夸人他們就沒(méi)法說(shuō)話，見(jiàn)面了必須先夸點(diǎn)什么才行。

Yeah, they check you out from head to toes once they meet you and find something on you to compliment upon. They have to find something to compliment!

這種行為真的太平凡了，以至于 Quora上都出現(xiàn)了一個(gè)問(wèn)題：“為什么美國(guó)人那么喜歡夸陌生人？”

不光中國(guó)人覺(jué)得奇怪，很多歐洲人也覺(jué)得不可思議。之前有英國(guó)媒體評(píng)出過(guò)“美國(guó)人會(huì)干的10件能把英國(guó)人逼瘋的事”，里面有2項(xiàng)就是關(guān)于他們的“愛(ài)?？?。人。”

第1件. 說(shuō)：“我好喜歡你的口音！”

在我搬來(lái)這里之前，我還從沒(méi)想過(guò)我這清晰的倫敦口音會(huì)聽(tīng)起來(lái)“聰明”或者“可愛(ài)”。一開(kāi)始這種稱贊還挺好的，但后來(lái)有一個(gè)紐約虎媽讓我用這種口音跟她2歲的孩子講話，希望這能傳染。這我就開(kāi)始覺(jué)得有點(diǎn)煩了。

第4件. 永無(wú)止境的誠(chéng)摯稱贊

如果我哪天過(guò)得不好，或者過(guò)得很好，或者過(guò)得隨便怎么樣，我都不希望商店里一個(gè)我完全不認(rèn)識(shí)的人突然跑來(lái)對(duì)我大肆稱贊。然而在美國(guó)，正常人真的會(huì)說(shuō)：“這位女士，你今天真的是個(gè)超棒的顧客”，而原因僅僅是我在他們店買了一盒衛(wèi)生棉條。

對(duì)于英國(guó)人這些深度“社交恐懼癥患者”來(lái)說(shuō)，碰到這種事真是拔腿就要跑了。要鬧明白這件事情的原因，或許還是得問(wèn)問(wèn)美國(guó)人自己。

剛剛上面那個(gè)Quora問(wèn)題就已經(jīng)有美國(guó)人回答了，她是這么回答的：

總體來(lái)說(shuō)，美國(guó)人真的很健談。我們覺(jué)得閑談是一種很禮貌、很合適的行為，而談天氣則是一種沒(méi)啥意思的事情。當(dāng)你在美國(guó)的公共場(chǎng)所時(shí)，旁邊的人突然找你講話是一點(diǎn)也不奇怪的。我甚至在等紅燈的時(shí)候和旁邊車的司機(jī)開(kāi)過(guò)玩笑呢。而對(duì)于這種輕量級(jí)的對(duì)話來(lái)說(shuō)，表?yè)P(yáng)別人是一種友好、安全而且愉快的話題。

（來(lái)源：滬江英語(yǔ)  編輯：Julie）