中式英語之鑑:多用耳朵,少用嘴巴

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159. 我給年輕人的忠告就是多用耳朵，少用嘴巴。

[誤] The advice I would like to provide the young people with is to use their ears more than their mouths.

[正] The advice I would like to provide the young people with is to be swift to hear but slow to speak.

注：中文是用“耳朵”和“嘴”來指行爲，很有特點；而英文用的是形容詞與動詞不定式的組合，既對稱又對比鮮
明。