爆笑QA問(wèn)答：作為一個(gè)外國(guó)人，你在另一個(gè)國(guó)家最尷尬的時(shí)刻是什么時(shí)候？

Harini Iyer
I have had many embarassing moments as a foreigner in several other countries. But here are two of the most embarassing ones in Norway where I currently live.
“I accidentally did drugs, thinking it was chewing gum.”
I was once at a pub with a few people. One girl on our table there was offering this one thing called snus to everyone seated at the table, except me because she knew that I am not into smoking, tobacco or any kind of drugs. I innocently thought it was chewing gum because it looked exactly like chewing gum, it came in a box that looked like a chewing gum box. I was wondering why she was offering it to all the others seated on the table but not me. Then I asked her for one She said, “It contains a bit of tobacco is that fine ?” I was like yes yes, convinced that it was harmless chewing gum. Then she told me that I needed to put it on my gums and I did that. Within 10 minutes, I noticed that my vision was getting blurry, someone was talking to me but I couldn't focus on what they were saying, my head was aching so badly and I was getting really really dizzy. I felt very nauseous as well. I was so confused and upset about what was happening and I was almost about to cry. Then, I told the people there that I wasn't feeling good for some reason. Then they guessed it was because of the snus and they asked me to spit it out immeadiately. Then they gave me loads of ice water and I was fine within a few minutes after that.

作為一個(gè)外國(guó)人，我在其他幾個(gè)國(guó)家有過(guò)很多尷尬的時(shí)刻。但最讓我感到尷尬的，是我在目前居住的挪威的兩個(gè)；
1、“我以為是口香糖，卻不小心吸毒了。”
有一次，我和幾個(gè)人在一家酒吧里。我們桌子上的一個(gè)女孩，向坐在桌子旁的每個(gè)人提供一種名為snus的東西，除了我，因?yàn)樗牢也幌矚g吸煙、抽卷煙或任何毒品。
我天真地以為它是口香糖，因?yàn)樗雌饋?lái)和口香糖一模一樣，它裝在一個(gè)看起來(lái)像口香糖盒子的盒子里。
我想知道她為什么把它給坐在桌子上的其他人，而不給我。
然后，我問(wèn)她要了一個(gè)。
她說(shuō)：“里面有一點(diǎn)煙草，你可以嗎？”
我想，是的，是的，這肯定是某種無(wú)害的口香糖。
然后，她告訴我需要把它涂在牙齦上，我照做了。
不到10分鐘，我注意到我的視力變得模糊，有人在和我說(shuō)話，但我無(wú)法集中注意力聽他們說(shuō)什么，我的頭疼得很厲害，我真的很頭暈。我還感到非常惡心。我對(duì)發(fā)生的事情感到困惑和不安，幾乎要哭了。
然后，我告訴那里的人，出于某種原因，我感覺不太好。然后他們猜測(cè)是因?yàn)?snus ，他們讓我立即吐出來(lái)。然后，他們給了我很多冰水，幾分鐘后我就好了。

This is how snus looks like. To me they looked like chewing gum on first sight.
I was told later that the amount of tobacco in one snus is equal to the amount of tobacco in ten cigarettes. To prevent air pollution, people in Norway use snus more than cigarettes. Almost everyone uses it here in Norway.

這就是snus的樣子。對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)，它們第一眼看上去很像口香糖。
后來(lái)有人告訴我，一支snus中的煙草含量等于十支香煙中煙草的量。為了防止空氣污染，挪威人使用的snus比香煙還多。在挪威，幾乎每個(gè)人都使用它。

“Touching food with hand.”
In India, it is a common practice to eat with hands and to touch the food with your hands. But in Norway, they consider it unhygienic to touch food with your hands especially if it is out of a tray from which everyone takes food and if your hands are unwashed.
I once went to a bakery and instead of using the tongs to take out scones and pastries, I used my hands. Then the staff member manning the bakery at that time came running to me and said “Please don't touch those with your hands, use these” and he handed me the tongs that were placed right next to the tray and I didn't see those.
But, this wasn't the first time this happened to me. This has happened with me many times. I frequently forget that I am not in India and take food with my hands, only to get told off by people.
But, now I more often than not remember not to touch food that is not mine yet and is for public consumption.
There are several more embarassing moments that I encountered. I plan to write a book about them one day.

2、“用手觸摸食物?！?br /> 在印度，用手吃飯和用手觸摸食物是一種常見的做法。
但在挪威，他們認(rèn)為用手觸摸食物是不衛(wèi)生的，尤其是如果食物是放在每個(gè)人都需要去拿食物的公共托盤中，而且你的手還沒有洗。
有一次我去了一家面包店，我沒有用鉗子取出烤餅和糕點(diǎn)，而是用手。
然后，當(dāng)時(shí)面包店的工作人員跑過(guò)來(lái)對(duì)我說(shuō)：“請(qǐng)不要用手碰那些，用這些。”
然后，他遞給我放在托盤旁邊的鉗子，當(dāng)時(shí)我沒有看到。
但是，這不是第一次發(fā)生在我身上了。這種情況已經(jīng)發(fā)生過(guò)很多次了。
我經(jīng)常忘記我不是在印度，然后用手去拿食物，結(jié)果卻遭到人們的斥責(zé)。
但是，現(xiàn)在的我還是仍然經(jīng)常不記得不能用手去觸碰那些不是我的、供公眾食用的食物。
我還遇到了一些尷尬的時(shí)刻。我計(jì)劃有一天寫一本關(guān)于它們的書。

Sachin Powar
American English struck us! :)
Back in 2007, it was my first visit to USA.
We were 3 guys from same company traveling together and staying at the same hotel. So we shared a cab. None of us had been outside India before.
We got a cab outside airport. Obviously he could not understand where we wanted to go. So we showed the printout with address and phone number. So he called up hotel and got directions.
To load the luggage, one of my friends requested the driver to open the "Dickie"!
The driver was like - WTF!!! :D
I recalled that, indeed we should say "trunk"!! He was relieved when we mentioned trunk. ;-)

美式英語(yǔ)震撼了我們！
早在2007年，那是我第一次訪問(wèn)美國(guó)。
我們?nèi)齻€(gè)人，是同一家公司的，一起旅行，住在同一家酒店。所以我們合租了一輛出租車。我們以前都沒出過(guò)印度。
我們?cè)跈C(jī)場(chǎng)外叫了一輛出租車。顯然他不明白我們想去哪里。所以我們展示了打印出來(lái)的地址和電話號(hào)碼。于是他打電話到旅館問(wèn)路。
為了裝行李，我的一個(gè)朋友要求司機(jī)打開“Dickie”！
司機(jī)說(shuō)：什么鬼東西！?。?br /> 我突然想起，我們應(yīng)該說(shuō)：“后備箱”！！
當(dāng)我們說(shuō)后備箱時(shí)，他松了一口氣。

Upon reaching hotel, we also took few moments to realize that he is expecting 'tip'. Finally we handed over the cash including tip.
Further to our embarrassment, I asked him 'Can we please have the bill?'
He was puzzled again and asked us - 'You want me to return all of this money and not charge you anything???'
Then we realized that we should mention 'receipt'.
'Bill' is synonymous with 'currency note' in US while in India, bill is nothing but a receipt :)
Lot of further confusions but these were epic! :)

到達(dá)酒店后，我們花了一些時(shí)間才意識(shí)到他在等“小費(fèi)”。最后，我們交了包括小費(fèi)在內(nèi)的所有錢。
更讓我們尷尬的是，我問(wèn)他：“我們可以拿到賬單嗎？”
他再次感到困惑，并問(wèn)我們——“你想讓我退還所有這些錢，而不向你收取任何費(fèi)用嗎？？”
然后，我們意識(shí)到我們應(yīng)該說(shuō)“收據(jù)”。
在美國(guó)，“賬單”是“紙幣”的同義詞，而在印度，賬單不過(guò)是一張收據(jù)。
還有很多困惑，但這些是史詩(shī)般的！

James Compton
I got bit by a mosquito in Brazil.
I didn’t know it until I woke up the next morning paralyzed and in extreme pain.
The mosquito that bit me was carrying dengue fever.
I could not move, could not eat, and I laid in bed for a few days. Finally, after losing a lot of weight, and most of my hair, two friends of mine carried me in their arms to the doorstep of a local hospital where two security guards confronted us.
One of the guards asked what was wrong with me, which my friend replied, “He’s an American and has dengue fever”. The guard then responded, “We are not letting this American in the hospital. If a Brazilian was in the United States, the Americans would not treat a Brazilian, so we are not going to help this American”.
I was embarrassed, angry, and depressed all at the same time. I flew back to the U.S a few days later. If not for that incident, I’d still be living there.

我在巴西被蚊子咬了。
直到第二天早上醒來(lái)，我才意識(shí)到這一點(diǎn)，全身癱瘓，疼痛難忍。
咬我的蚊子攜帶登革熱。
我不能動(dòng)，不能吃東西，在床上躺了幾天。最后，在我的體重大幅減輕，頭發(fā)大部分掉了之后，我的兩個(gè)朋友把我抱到了當(dāng)?shù)氐囊患裔t(yī)院的門口，兩名保安在那里與我們對(duì)峙。
其中一名保安問(wèn)我怎么了，我的朋友回答說(shuō)：“他是美國(guó)人，患有登革熱。”。
保安隨后回應(yīng)道：“我們不會(huì)讓這個(gè)美國(guó)人住院。如果一個(gè)巴西人在美國(guó)，美國(guó)人不會(huì)治療一個(gè)巴西人，所以，我們不會(huì)幫助這個(gè)美國(guó)人”。
我同時(shí)感到尷尬、憤怒和沮喪。
幾天后，我飛回了美國(guó)。如果不是因?yàn)槟羌?，我還會(huì)住在那里。

Allen Song
In London, I was at a disabled toilet room in a department store, the toilet had a black nylon rope hanging down from the ceiling. I thought it was a flusher for the disabled. When I pulled it however, it set off the alarms and I had 3 store associates rush the toilet I was in, while my pants were still around my ankles. -_-

在倫敦，我在一家百貨公司的殘疾人廁所里，廁所的天花板上掛著一根黑色尼龍繩。我還以為這是給殘疾人用的沖洗器。
然而，當(dāng)我拉下它時(shí)，它觸發(fā)了警報(bào)，3名店員沖進(jìn)了我所在的廁所，而我的褲子還在腳踝上 -_-
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Chinni Mahesh
Originally Answered: What is your most embarrassing moment as a foreigner in another country?
When I traveled for the first time to US (San Fransisco).. the tiresome journey of 23 hours made me jet-lagged.
I came out of the airport and a cabbie stopped by and loaded my luggage in the back seat. I silently went to the front seat and closed my eyes.
Once cabbie was done loading the luggage, he came to the front and asked if I wanted to drive the car? I was surprised why he wants me to drive only to find out I was actually sitting in the driver seat.
I was embarrassed , cabbie later told me that it was common for all Indian and England passengers that they sit in the left side of the car.
P.S: As many pointed this may not be very embarrassing, but I did not even check the steering before sitting and I felt it embarrassing

當(dāng)我第一次去美國(guó)（舊金山）旅行時(shí)……23個(gè)小時(shí)的疲憊旅程使我反應(yīng)遲鈍。
我從機(jī)場(chǎng)出來(lái)，一位出租車司機(jī)接了我，把我的行李放到了后座上。我默默地走到前排座位上，閉上眼睛。
出租車司機(jī)裝好行李后，走到前面問(wèn)我：你是要自己開車嗎？
我很驚訝，他為什么要這么問(wèn)我，然后，我發(fā)現(xiàn)我居然坐在了駕駛座上。
我很尷尬，出租車司機(jī)后來(lái)告訴我，所有印度和英國(guó)的乘客，都會(huì)習(xí)慣性的坐在左側(cè)，這很常見。
PS：正如許多人所指出的，這可能不是很尷尬，但我坐下來(lái)之前，都沒有注意到方向盤，我覺得很尷尬。

Anup Mohan
I was taking a train from Shenzhen to Beijing, in China.
My friend booked the ticket for me. The train journey was supposed to be for about 24 hours, since it was a slow train.
I was the only foreigner in the entire car/coach and was getting a lot of attention anyway.
I was sitting on the seat for about 2 hours. Then, A guy approaches me. Based on his hand movements, he was asking me to stand up. I said, ‘this is my seat’ and he starts laughing.
Then, I stood up (extremely confidently) and gave him my train ticket.
And he starts laughing really bad, gradually each and every person in the coach/car was looking at me and laughing. They were laughing so bad that it was the most embarrassing moment.
The guy who was asking to stand up pointed the date on the ticket to me. After looking at it for 5–10 seconds, I realized that my booking was for the next day and my friend booked a wrong ticket for me.
The next 22 hours were horrible for me. I couldn’t speak Chinese and had to stand the entire journey for 22 hours.

我當(dāng)時(shí)在中國(guó)，坐火車從深圳到北京。（譯注：6年前）
我的朋友幫我訂了票?；疖囈_24小時(shí)左右，因?yàn)榛疖囬_得很慢。
我是整個(gè)車廂里唯一的外國(guó)人，受到了很多關(guān)注。
我在座位上坐了大約兩個(gè)小時(shí)。然后，一個(gè)家伙走近我。根據(jù)他的手部動(dòng)作，我明白他是要我站起來(lái)。
我說(shuō)，“這是我的座位”，他開始大笑起來(lái)。
然后，我（非常自信地）站起來(lái)，把我的火車票給他看。
他開始笑得更厲害了，漸漸地，車?yán)锏拿總€(gè)人都看著我笑。他們笑得很厲害，這是最尷尬的時(shí)刻。
那個(gè)要求我站起來(lái)的人，把票上的日期指給我看?？戳?-10秒后，我意識(shí)到我訂的是第二天的票，我的朋友給我訂錯(cuò)了票。
接下來(lái)的22個(gè)小時(shí)，對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)太可怕了。我不會(huì)說(shuō)中文，不得不一直忍著站了22個(gè)小時(shí)。

Nick Nolder
My most embarrassing time was asking half of the people in downtown Beijing to kiss me.
I was studying Mandarin at a language school in Beijing. We were given the task of asking people throughout the city a series of questions. The Chinese word for 'to ask' is the same as 'kiss', only using a different tone. Well needless to say I was using the wrong tone.
So, after 3 hours of asking countless strangers to kiss me, my teachers finally corrected me to great embarrassment.

我最尷尬的一次，是在北京市中心，對(duì)一半的人要求他們的親吻。
我在北京的一所語(yǔ)言學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)普通話。我們得到一個(gè)任務(wù)，去市中心，對(duì)那里的人們問(wèn)一系列問(wèn)題。
“問(wèn)”的中文單詞與“吻”相同，只是語(yǔ)調(diào)不同。不用說(shuō)，我用錯(cuò)了語(yǔ)調(diào)。
所以，在3個(gè)小時(shí)里，我要求了無(wú)數(shù)陌生人的親吻后，我的老師才終于糾正了我的尷尬。

Anne Haefele
August 2001 I was studying abroad in Germany and would often complain in German how hot I was. I would say "Oh, Mann! Ich bin so heiss!" Turns out, I was exclaiming how horny I was instead of how warm I was due to the weather. I was completely embarrassed.

2001年8月，我在德國(guó)留學(xué)，經(jīng)常用德語(yǔ)抱怨我有多熱。
我會(huì)說(shuō)：“哦，Mann！Ich bin so heiss！”
結(jié)果這句話的意思是：我在感嘆我有多饑渴，而不是因?yàn)樘鞖獾脑蛭矣卸酂帷Ｎ艺娴暮軐擂巍?/b>