Many, many times, many, many times,
The gap in reality is caused by your own gap.
You can go all over the world if you are a famous university, but you may not be able to get out of this mountain if you don't know a word.
Money, status, contacts, prestige, rights, knowledge, family, friends and countless other things constitute the confidence to support you to live in this world and determine your height.
What was London to Fangran before
Probably Big Ben, the streets of England, St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, the London Eye and the British Museum, the Landhall Building in the Financial City that he regarded as a 'trap', and his debut in Night War World and A stage for Class A battles.
But after arriving in this kind of city in person, Fangran found that for him,
It's the British pound, it's the supermarket, it's the street that only moves in a few blocks, and it's the remote rooftop that is temporarily settled in the unknown.
It was a huge maze of streets filled with all kinds of English, and people speaking a language he could barely understand.
Wrapped in a blanket on the roof at night, Fangran looked at London in the distance. In the simulated scene, he could easily pass through a distance of several thousand meters and soar to a height of nearly 10,000 meters, with buildings standing between them. Fallen in the aftermath of the battle, the whole city was their battlefield,
But now it takes him more than an hour to walk from where he sleeps to the supermarket,
London suddenly became bigger.
"... do you have um..mbership card?..."
"Three four, five eight, one, two, three, four, sixteen, eighteen... total, no, the total is... .um... that... nieen pounds and eighty pence..."
“... have twenty pounds from you... ”
"Looking for you.. cough, twenty pence... is your change, here you are."
At the exit of the supermarket in Stratford, next to the checkout counter, he swiftly scanned the barcode of the product with his hand, and quickly tapped out a bunch of numbers to add up. jerky spoken language,
Fangran quickly put the salmon, pork, beef, and various vegetables bought by the lady in front of him into bags, and handed them to her along with the change.
London time, 5:30 p.m.
It was the time when most people got off work, and it was also the time when there were the most people in this supermarket. At this moment, Fang Ran and Tang Bing were standing back to back, dealing with the long line of customers waiting to check out.
"Oh, petent boy."
I didn't wait for the service for a long time, and a blond housewife in front of me exclaimed quite unexpectedly, and then left with a bag in her hand,
But to be honest, Fangran who responded politely with a smile
In fact, I didn't understand what she said.
Fangran, who had already learned how to pay customers and some simple cash register terms from Tang Bing when he was free in the afternoon, and started to "work part-time", unexpectedly discovered that dealing with people was not as difficult as he imagined.
The main reason is that he found that in London, England, the spoken language spoken by foreigners is also some simple sentence patterns and basic words in junior high school, not as complicated and diverse as his cute and charming Level 4 English,
Of course, when the other party speaks too fast and has words beyond the level of junior high school, he should not understand or not...
However, this is not important!
In order to thoroughly implement the principle that Tang Bing taught him with rolling his eyes in the afternoon, "You don't care what others say, and it's over when you settle accounts", Fangran felt that in just half an hour of part-time work,
Already very proficient in using 'Do you have a membership card? ', 'How much is the total amount', 'How much is charged', 'How much is looking for you' and other big sentence patterns,
I felt my rapid growth in a pure English environment.
Is this the impact of the environment...
"Aren't I actually very talented in English...?"
"Senior, please stop dreaming! Just what is it about your construction site English that can make you have such an illusion!"
Then, just as Fangran was muttering these words in a daze, he was immediately complained by Tang Bing behind him with a frightened and collapsed face, and then he was so busy that he lost his body... Bah! Lost and said:
"How about speeding up when you have time to talk in your sleep? There will be more and more people in a while!"
"But I seem to be faster than you here."
"What!!!∑(((Дノ)ノ!?"
Supermarket cash register is actually a very simple job, the main thing is to be quick and accurate in calculating money. After spending more than ten minutes getting used to it, Fangran soon discovered that he seemed to be quite good at it.
Well, after all, the simple mathematics of accounting and pricing is something before high school, and Fang Ran is quite good at what he learned before high school, not to mention that the participants' reflexes are more than enough to deal with collecting money and calculating accounts.
Then Fangran slowly discovered on the way...
The British are really bad at mathematics (covering their faces, laughing and crying).
After a lady in her thirties bought something worth 17 pounds and 47 pence, she took the 2 pounds and 53 pence that Fangran gave him and counted it for about half a minute.
Fangran, who counted and was busy right next to her, had eyes straightened and doubted life, and only when he thought that he had made a mistake in his counting did he finally nod his head and leave confidently.
Then, when he saw 10p, 20p, and fractions of 1 pound, he subconsciously tried to use his English with pickles, and stumbled out 'do you are just a fraction of hava, so that i can I'm looking for you Zhang Zheng' after such words,
Often more than half of the people will be stunned, and then ask in a very puzzled tone:
"Ha? Why?"
To be honest, when Fangran heard this why for the first time, Fangran was speechless and wondered if their primary school math was taught by the physical education teacher.
It turns out that the school girl was not a black British math student before (Khan)...
In fact, as Fangran has seen, in addition to sitting and working, the cashiers in the supermarkets in the UK are often very stubborn looking for you with a lot of coins. The principle of making money that everyone is used to can't be seen here.
Perhaps it is because the language cannot be as concise and concise as Chinese. There has never been such a thing as Xiao Jiujiu before. The mathematics of ordinary people in the UK is really bad. 11x12 this kind of problem,
However, previous reports have shown that the lack of mathematical ability causes the UK to lose more than 20 billion pounds a year, which is estimated to account for 1.3% of gdp. Even if calculated in the most conservative way, the loss is still as high as 6.7 billion pounds, accounting for 0.4% of gdp.
But what is amazing is that the highest award in the field of mathematics, the Fields Medal, has been won by a total of 7 people in the UK, second only to France and the United States. For those Nobel Prizes in science, a total of 69 people in the UK have won them, ranking second in the world. The familiar Newton, the unfamiliar Bertrand Russell, Alan Turing, and Isaac Barrow are all British.
But let’s not talk about these things. When the supermarket is the most crowded during the off-duty period, it may be because the calculation is fast and there will not be a lot of coins.
Fangran watched him and Tang Bing line up in a fixed-length line at the cash register, and rolled his eyes speechlessly. He finally understood why Tang Bing said that this place was willing to recruit Chinese students to work.
щ(°Д°#щ) The eldest sister over there is your slow speed, let us leave your job early in our country, what the hell!
I don't know if it's because the double cards are used too much. Fangran, who was still thinking about complaining at the cashier and settling accounts, tore off the receipt slip as usual, and was about to put everything into the bag,
The woman in front of her suddenly shouted domineeringly, stopped Fangran's movements and pointed at the salmon, vegetables, fruits, and bread and jam she bought.
Talking about something that Fangran didn't quite understand.
Fangran: "(~;)en... .."
Glancing at this stinking old woman, Baby Fangran pondered for a second, and then recalled the last thing her careful schoolgirl emphasized to her before the part-time job started.
'Ah, that's right, senior, ordinary customers won't say much to you, if you encounter a picky customer by accident, don't, don't speak in your construction site English! '
＃) Hum~ (unhappy pinching waist.jpg)
Elbowed at the school girl behind him, Fangran rolled his eyes in a low voice and said:
"Hey, junior, junior, switch sides, the idea here is a bit tricky."
Just because Fangran, who had been working here for a month and hadn't even started his first day of construction site English, was hit by his high efficiency, Tang Bing, who was concentrating on it, was stunned and let out a dazed voice when he heard this.
"Ha!?"
"Quick! Hurry up, I'm going to put my salmon and beef in separate bags, and then the veggies and bananas are separate from the rest...."
"Ah, here I come, I'm sorry, I'll pack it for you now."
Then, when the demanding old woman clamored for various requests again and hurried forward to respond, Tang Bing heard Fangran who had switched to his side and was still faster than him cheering him up in a low voice.
"Come on! Junior! Give her some color see see!"
God damn give her some color see see!
Senior, is your construction site English in bulk?
(>Д!!*) And it even rhymes!