那些你不知道的英语表达（纠正中式英语Howabout）

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“How about your idea??” , is it translated to Chinese like "你觉得怎么样？？"

Nope! Reading the following infos you may find out.

首先这个句子看似没错，实在犯了中式英语错误，直译问题

"How about" in English is often used to introduce suggestions such as:

A:How about we talk in the afternoon?

--我们下午讨论怎么样？

(It means I'm not free at this moment,can we talk in the afternoon?)

--指目前我没空，下午讨论可以吗?

B:How about I give you 100 $, and you give me 1000￥back?

--我给你100美元，你给我1000RMB，怎么样？

(It means I have a good idea which is 。。。)

--指我有个好主意...

看到这里，感觉也没太大毛病？？？ 接着往下看。

When the speaker says "How about your idea?". It sounds like the speaker is saying "Do you have another ideas?" or "Do you have a better idea that the one I just mentioned?". The truth is that the speaker just want to seek an opionion about his/her ideas or be given feedback.

If the speaks ask "What do we do?" or " What are we gonna do?", then you can use this phrase "How about".

那么，最简单的翻译是：What do you think?

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