在与美国人日常接触中,我发现他们有许多话由于种种原因不便出口,常常要用其他词语来婉转地表达自己的意思。比如“老”这个词。在中国,“老”在一定情境下含有尊敬人家的意思,例如称人家为“黄老”“许老”或者“老王”,“老李”等即属之。因此要把中国这个“老”的概念译成英文,就不能直译为“old”而应该是“rever- During daily contact with the Americans, I found that many of them were inconvenient to export due to various reasons and often used other terms to express their meaning tactfully. For example, the word “old”. In China, “old” contains the meaning of respecting people in certain situations. For example, people call people like Huang, Xu or Lao Li. Therefore, if we translate the concept of “old” in China into English, we can not translate it into “old” but rather "rever-