我的瑞士朋友說瑞士人 - 文化差異

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幫翻譯......
幼稚園小孩可以單獨出門?這個國家有沒有這麼完美


You know you're Swiss if ...
你一定是瑞士人,才會......


時間觀念
1. you complain if your bus/train/tram is more than 5 minutes late. Make
that 1 minute
碰到公車火車誤點五分鐘以上,就大罵;

28. you think that driving somewhere for four hours is a hell of a long time
受不了開車開上四個鐘頭;


國際觀
2. you've ever been confused with a Swede
被那些瑞典、瑞士傻傻分不清楚的人氣到;

3. you laugh when Americans believe that Swiss Miss is a Swiss product, but
then have no clue that Nestle and Rolex ARE
嘲笑以為Swiss Miss是瑞士產品,卻不知雀巢和勞力士才是瑞士產品的美國人;

6. you have ever been asked - upon stating your nationality - whether you
live in the mountains and whether you can yodel
外國人知道了你是瑞士人,就問你是不是住在山上、每天唱約德爾調;

8. you have ever been asked who the president of Switzerland is and then
failed miserably trying to explain why you've lost track
外國人問你「瑞士總統是誰」,你卻說不出你為什麼不知道;


瑞士的民生特色
4. you get frustrated if you go grocery shopping abroad and there aren't at
least 10 different kinds of chocolate and 15 kinds of cheese available
你出國購物,卻發覺瑞士以外的雜貨店,巧克力種類不到十種,起司不到十五種,
為此感到不高興;

21. you were legally allowed to drink beer and wine at the age of sixteen
你十六歲就可以合法喝酒;

25. you are asked to vote on a "Referendum" or "Initiative" at least 3 or 4
times a year
你每年都有三、四個公投案或連署案可以參加;

26. you are used to drinking from any public fountain in the street unless
there is a warning sign that says "no drinking water"
除非標示「非供飲用」,否則你都會喝街上噴水池的水;

27. you grew up believing all cows must wear bells
你從小到大都以為牛一定要戴鈴鐺;

29. you get slightly irritated or at least confused if your foreign
visitors ask to see a chocolate factory
如果外國朋友說想參觀巧克力工廠,你會頭大;

30. you know what Betty Bossi books and products are and have bought one
你對Betty Bossi的書和產品瞭若指掌,而且也有買;

31. you know someone that collects the tin foil lids from coffee cream tubs
你認識的人當中,有人會收集咖啡奶精罐的封口錫箔紙;


瑞士的多語言多族群文化
5. you have learned three to four languages and think this is completely
normal
學上三、四種語言,且習以為常;

7. you can pronounce "Chuchichaschtli" and you know what it means
會念Chuchichaschtli而且知道那甚麼意思;

9. you know what "Roschti" are and you have crossed the "Roschtigrabe" at
some point
你知道甚麼叫Roschti,而且你碰過「德法族群溝」好幾次;

12. you are amused when people ask you what language is spoken in your home
country and/or you have to explain that "Swiss" is not a language, that
there are four national languages and none of them is called "Swiss"!
每次有外國人問你的國家講甚麼語言,有時候你還得解釋說你的國家有四種官方語,
沒有一種叫做「瑞士語」,就覺得好笑;

14. you've ever seen "Sandmannchen" dubbed into Romansch
你看過「小睡魔」的羅曼語配音版本;

18. your country has six different public television channels in three
different languages - and you don't think this is unusual
你國家有六個電視頻道,總共三種語言,你不覺得這有啥大不了;

19. you get amused when you see Swiss German people being subtitled on
German television
你看到德語瑞士人上德國電視鏡頭,就覺得好笑;

24. when being asked to explain how certain things work in your country,
you have to use the phrase "it differs for each canton, so..."
外國人問你在瑞士都怎麼樣的時候,你總是得說「每個州情況不同......」

34. you are in a non-European country and can hear people talking Swiss
German and just go up and strike up a conversation with a complete stranger
你出了歐洲,能聽懂有人在講瑞士德語,而且發現他們根本完全不認識就聊開了;


瑞士人的教養與品德
10. you went to a state-funded ski camp every year with your classmates in
high school
念高中時,每年都和同學去公辦的滑雪營;

11. to you, skis are like the extensions of your feet, because you've skied
since you could walk
你打從學會走路開始就在滑雪,滑雪板簡直就是腳的一部分;

15. as a female, you give all your friends three kisses on the cheeks as a
greeting
身為瑞士女生的你,每次和朋友打招呼都親三下臉頰;

17. you've ever been asked by your non-Swiss friends to intervene in a
fight and used "hey, I'm Swiss" as an excuse not to
外國朋友幹架,撂你去助陣,你卻以「瑞士人崇尚理性,勿戰」為由推辭;

20. you firmly believe it is more important to do things accurately than to
do them quickly
你堅信把事做對最重要,其次才是效率;

22. you walked to kindergarten without supervision, wearing a large orange
triangle around your neck
你小時候脖子上戴著橘色三角圈,不用爸媽帶,自己一個人走路上幼稚園;

35. no matter how much of a "bad-ass" you think you are, you will still
pick up your candy wrapper off the floor if an old lady asks you too
就算你狠下心來想耍賴,碰到有老太太叫你自己撿糖果包裝紙紙,你還是乖乖照辦;


瑞士的品牌
13. you owned a Swatch growing up... or still do
你從小戴Swatch手錶長大,甚至現在還戴著;

16. you love Migros and you swear that some of their products are better
than anything you've ever seen elsewhere
熱愛米格洛連鎖超市,堅信他們某些產品是天下第一;


瑞士全民國防
23. you think it's normal that everyone has a bunker underneath their
house, or is registered for one of the public bunkers under the school
building, for emergency situations... by the way, here's a fun thing to do:
invite over some of your foreign friends (Americans make very good
candidates) and take a picture of the look on their face when they SEE the
bunker. Priceless!
家家戶戶都有防空洞,而家裡沒防空洞的人也都有在學校的公共防空洞登記避難名單,
這對你而言是正常現象;另外,邀請外國朋友,尤其是美國人,來參觀你家的防空洞,
拍下他們驚訝的表情,是無比有趣的事!

32. you don't see where the problem is when every male citizen who has been
to the army has an assault rifle under his bed
當過兵的男人,床下都放一把來福槍,這種現象你見怪不怪;


寧不為瑞士人
33. you have to pay twice the price for museum entries because you're not a
citizen of the EU, although you live in Europe!
同樣在歐洲,你買博物館門票價格卻是別人的兩倍,只因為你不是歐盟人;

36. you think everything is cheap abroad compared to Swiss prices!
出了瑞士你就大呼甚麼東西都好便宜。



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All Comments

Freda avatarFreda2008-05-31
看的翻譯 覺得好好笑XDD
Annie avatarAnnie2008-06-04
fountain不一定都指噴水池吧?我好像聽過飲水機也叫fountain
Ivy avatarIvy2008-06-07
如果噴水池的水都能喝那瑞士真的太乾淨了
Doris avatarDoris2008-06-10
可以順便翻一下編號4794的文章嗎? 我也想笑笑看
Hamiltion avatarHamiltion2008-06-14
看原文覺得還好,看完翻譯我笑了XDDDD好貼切!
Noah avatarNoah2008-06-16
翻的真好!
Faithe avatarFaithe2008-06-18
第19我看不懂耶..抓不到點,還有being subtitled不是上字幕?
Damian avatarDamian2008-06-21
是的...瑞士人說的徳語跟德國奧地利不同 所以要上字幕
George avatarGeorge2008-06-23
所以第19點應該是"看到瑞士人在德國電視台講德文要加字幕時
覺得很好笑"吧?
Dora avatarDora2008-06-26
就是在德國電視上看到瑞士人講德語都要上字幕就對了 XD
17. 那個該說是理性勿戰嗎?我覺得是「中立」。XD
Zanna avatarZanna2008-06-26
推樓上,我也覺得是中立
Jake avatarJake2008-06-27
這一系列的都好有趣XDDD
Tom avatarTom2008-06-28
19點就像台灣播大陸新聞片段訪問路人時,也要加字幕的意思XD
Adele avatarAdele2008-07-01
其實我覺得奧地利德語也不遑多讓…
Audriana avatarAudriana2008-07-03
fountain翻成飲水機就沒有笑點也沒甚麼特別...
Necoo avatarNecoo2008-07-06
喔,不過我真的想知道原文所指是什麼,我不敢相信噴水池能喝
Lauren avatarLauren2008-07-08
這是真的,所以他們到別處也會以為可以生飲
Dinah avatarDinah2008-07-09
日本的一些寺廟處的"fountain"我是知道可以生飲的
Mary avatarMary2008-07-12
19 的話主因是"口音"....所以還有原來口印的瑞士裔德國人
Freda avatarFreda2008-07-13
在德國電視上講德語仍是會讓德國人聽起來覺得奇怪,所以
Una avatarUna2008-07-18
要上字幕 這在美國偶而也有類似情形
Damian avatarDamian2008-07-19
瑞士德文本來就不是德文
Ophelia avatarOphelia2008-07-20
感恩分享~
Noah avatarNoah2008-07-20
剛想到的,實際看照片 images.google.com 輸入
fountain switzerland
Jacob avatarJacob2008-07-23
可以看到有人用瓶子裝"fountain"流出來的水
"瑞士德文本來就不是德文"??這邏輯很奇怪.. 加拿大法文
Agnes avatarAgnes2008-07-27
不是法文? 澳洲英文不是英文?
Hazel avatarHazel2008-08-01
推這篇 謝謝翻譯 真棒
Bennie avatarBennie2008-08-03
很好笑~希望原PO能翻完全部系列 XDDDDD
Lucy avatarLucy2008-08-08
XD 我剛剛問了 他說的public fountain就是噴水池的
Andy avatarAndy2008-08-10
除非有標誌說不能喝 要不然都可以喝
Frederica avatarFrederica2008-08-11
不是樓主和上面幾樓的都翻完了嗎? XD
Daph Bay avatarDaph Bay2008-08-14
好像瑞士德語很多用法跟發音不見得與德國德語相同
如果學德國德語不見得能與說瑞士德語的人用"德語"溝通
Anonymous avatarAnonymous2008-08-17
那應該還是叫德語呀,只不過是不同的方言吧
Hedda avatarHedda2008-08-22
也不明白「瑞士德文本來就不是德文」的邏輯,光德國境內就
Regina avatarRegina2008-08-24
有很多人平常不講標準德語了。我所謂的標準德語是連發音跟
文法都包含在內。
Edward Lewis avatarEdward Lewis2008-08-28
assault rifle應該翻譯為攻擊步槍
Elvira avatarElvira2008-08-28
quickly不是效率,應該是速率或快速.
Erin avatarErin2008-09-01
assault rifle一般翻成突擊步槍比較多
Elma avatarElma2008-09-05
不過我想也只有瑞士的公民素質可以這樣到處發槍...
Regina avatarRegina2008-09-07
"Swiss German"和"Swiss Standard German"是不一樣的。
Kristin avatarKristin2008-09-10
Swiss German的確非德語,德、奧人不一定懂Swiss German
Heather avatarHeather2008-09-12
但德、奧人不用學就可以懂Swiss Standard German。
請看http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German
Ina avatarIna2008-09-16
噴水池真的可以喝~我第一次看到傻眼 但是小朋友喝得很自然
Catherine avatarCatherine2008-09-19
瑞士近年來已發生過幾次用軍發步槍濫射殺人的事件,
Cara avatarCara2008-09-22
所以瑞士近年已在考慮停止讓一般後備軍人帶槍回家.
Jacky avatarJacky2008-09-22
最後一點同意 我在英國的瑞士室友一直開心的跟我們說
他覺得英國什麼東西都好便宜 囧rz