Keke Funny Moment

可可輕松一刻

Too Polite
太有禮貌

A woman who frequented a small antique shop rarely purchase anything,
一名婦女經常光顧一家小古董店，但幾乎從不買什么東西，

but always found fault with the merchandise and prices.
卻總是對商品和價格吹毛求疵。

The manager and her salesclerk took the woman's grumpy complaints in stride,
對于那婦女的粗暴抱怨，經理和她的銷售員總是應付了事，

but one day she went too far.
但是有一天她做得太過分了。

"Why is it I never manage to get what I ask for in your shop?" demanded the woman.
“為什么你們店里總是不能得到我想要的東西？”那名婦女指責說。

A smile on her face, the clerk calmly replied, "Perhaps it's because we're too polite."
職員臉上帶著微笑，沉著地回答道：“也許是因為我們太有禮貌了。”

Notes:
1.frequent
adj. 頻繁的，時常發生的，常見的；（脈搏等）急促的，快的
vt. 常到，光顧，常與…交往；常去，時常出入于
eg.
A woman who frequented a small shop.
一名婦女經常光顧一家小店。

2.merchandise
n. 商品；貨物=commodity=goods
vt. 買賣；銷售
vi. 經商
eg.
There's no use in manufacturing an item unless you can merchandise it.
除非能夠銷售得出，否則生產產品就沒有價值。

3.in stride輕易，隨意
eg.
The manager and her salesclerk took the woman's grumpy complaints in stride.
對于那婦女的粗暴抱怨，經理和她的銷售員總是應付了事.

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