首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your
admin
2011-01-10
63
问题
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.
Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience ail shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. "Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter. "Oh, that’s God," came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor."
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.
If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it’s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark.
Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote "If at first you don’t succeed, give up" or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can mm about and inject with humor.
The best title for the passage may be ______.
选项
A、Use Humor Effectively
B、Various Kinds of Humor
C、Add Humor to Speech
D、Different Humor Strategies
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/OxcO777K
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
Celebrate.Celebrate.PhysiciansaredelightedwithaFoodandDrugAdministration(FDA)advisorypanel’srecommendationearliert
Shouldwecareifover150knownspeciesofanimalshave【C1】______fromtheearthinthelastfiftyyears?Shouldwebeconcerned
Manystudentsagreedtocome,butsomestudentsagainstbecausetheysaidtheydon’thavetime.
Attemptshavebeenmadefornearlythreedecadestoincreasetheamountofprecipitationfromcloudsbyseedingthemwithsalto
Modernindustrialsocietygrantslittlestatustooldpeople.Infact,suchasocietyhasasystemofbuilt-inobsolescence.The
Thefieldofmedicinehasalwaysattracteditsshareofquacksandcharlatans—disreputablewomenandmenwithlittleornomed
Ifpeoplecannotaffordtobuytheirownhouse,theycanrentpropertyfromaprivatelandlord,as10%ofthepopulationdoes,o
Aneducationblogthataskedreaderstosendreportsofviolenceinschoolstiedtotheelectionhasbeeninundatedwithmoreth
A、About23years.B、About27years.C、About30years.D、About13years.A根据第二段第一句“...constructionscheduledtostartin2007and
A、Johndidnotwanttohavetheexpensiveoperation.B、Althoughtheoperationwasexpensive,Johnhadtoimprovehishealth.C、T
随机试题
患儿,女,12岁。10天前咽痛、发热,近期四肢大关节疼痛伴游走性,感乏力、心悸。查体可见双肘关节红肿。实验室检查:血沉45mm/h,C反应蛋白阳性,类风湿因子(-),免疫检查正常。诱发本病的病因是
经济规律与自然规律的不同在于,自然规律是完全客观的,而经济规律则属于社会,是人们可以创造的。
图6—1—3所示一水平放置的恒定变直径圆管流,不计水头损失,取两个截面标志为1与2,当d1>d2时,则两截面形心压强关系是()。[2013年真题]
关于喷锚暗挖法施工隧道防水结构设计与施工的说法,正确的有()。
投标文件通常由()等部分组成。
自动喷水灭火系统的供电巡查的主要内容不包括()
存Word文档巾,能直观地改变段落缩进方式、调整芹右边界和改变表格的行列窬度,用户可以利用()。
以下关于软件测试的叙述中,正确的是()。
下列软件中,属于系统软件的是()。
A、 B、 C、 B
最新回复
(
0
)