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我在圣路易斯留学也认识不少朋友了,每次我被介绍给别人时,别人总会问我一堆问题。这里我就选几个有代表性的问题说说吧。问题1:你从中国哪个地方来?一般来说,我告诉他们来自中国东部,离海不远。一开始我总先说我从南京来,然后他们就茫然地看着我:“南京在哪里?”没等我介绍就知道南京的美国人很少,而知道南京与圣路易斯是友好城市的就更少了。不过不知道也没什么,我来之前也不清楚圣路易斯在哪里。一次我去另一所高中时,他们的历史老师着实令我吃了一惊。当我提到南京时,他竟然知道那是“前首都”!
I also knew a lot of friends when I was studying in St. Louis. Every time I was introduced to others, people always asked me a bunch of questions. Here I would like to select a few representative questions. Question 1: Where do you come from China? Generally speaking, I told them to come from East China, not far from the sea. In the beginning, I always said that I came from Nanjing and then they looked at me blankly: “Where is Nanjing?” I didn’t know when I introduced that I knew very few Americans in Nanjing and I knew that Nanjing and St. Louis were sister cities. Less is it. But I don’t know if it’s okay. I didn’t know where Saint Louis was before I came. When I went to another high school once, their history teacher really surprised me. When I mentioned Nanjing, he even knew that it was “the former capital”!