真心还是假意

​由于英美英语的差异美国人和英国人会彼此误会吗?

获得56.3k好评的回答@Andrew Bayles：

Definitely.

当然。

As a speaker of American English, I once told my British coworker that I needed to stop home before our next appointment because my pants were wet.

我说的是美式英语。有一次告诉英国同事见面之前我得先回家，因为我裤子湿了。

He responded with “I certainly didn’t need to know that!”, looking surprised that I had told him.

他回答说：“我真没必要知道这些!”他看起来很惊讶我跟他说这些。

The confusion in this case was based on the fact that in the US, pants means everything from slacks to blue jeans, while in Britain, pants means underwear.

这件事里的误会在于在美国pants指的是宽松长裤或蓝色牛仔裤等所有裤子，而在英国指的是内裤。

I had gotten the bottom of my slacks wet from walking in the snow, but he thought I was saying that I had peed my underwear.

我在雪里走裤子底边湿了，但他以为我在说自己尿裤子了。