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If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties.
With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman.
You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.
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*一句
If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties.
第二句
With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman.
第三句
You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.
< 本句译文 >
*一句译文
如果你是你谈话对象集体中的一员，你就可以设身处地地了解你们所有人共有的经历和问题，你就可对餐厅难以下咽的食物或者领导在选择领带方面差劲的品味评头论足。
第二句译文
而对于其他听众，你就不能试图插入这类幽默，因为他们会反感一个外来人对他们的餐厅或*导者发表蔑视性的评论。
第三句译文
但如果你选择去调侃邮局或电话局这样的“替罪羊”，你将会平安无事。
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