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从KINA上看到的……貌似很久以前的文章里吧～
这是一个名叫”老栗子“的英国人在Helsingin Sanomat的网站上写的一篇文章。原文名为：You Know You Have Been In Finland Too Long, When... （当以下事情发生时，你就知道你在芬兰待的时间太长了）。 记录了一些作为长期在芬兰居住的外国人（同样是白人）所感觉到的文化差异和融合。 参与评论的furriner(芬兰人口中的“外国人“）要求在芬兰居住了20年以上，并且有过小小的犯罪最好。 我把这篇文章翻译了一下，风趣好玩的文化差异。有一部分到现在已有小小体会了呵呵···
1. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage.
你对自己的塑料袋收藏翻来翻去，看哪个应该保留用来带到商店去，那些可以被牺牲到垃圾里面去。
2. When a stranger on the street smiles at you: a. you assume he is drunk. b. he is insane， c. he's an American
当一个陌生人在街道对你微笑（你会认为）：
a假设他是醉了 b他疯了 c 他是美国人
3. You don't think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry.
你想都不想就把湿漉漉的盘仍到碗柜里晾干。
4. A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer: "Oh, I'm going to Europe!" meaning any other Western European country outside Scandinavia.
朋友询问您假日计划和您答复： “Oh，我去欧洲!” 意味在斯堪的那维亚（北欧四国)以外的其他西欧国家。
5. You see a student taking a front row seat and wonder "Who does he think he is!!??"
你看到有学生坐在最前排就想“他认为他是谁!??"
6. Silence is fun. 沈默是乐趣。
7. The reason you take the ferry to Stockholm or Tallinn is: a. duty free vodka，b. duty free beer，c. to party heartily...no need to get off the boat in Stockholm or Tallinn, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Finland.
您乘轮渡到斯德哥尔摩或Tallinn(爱沙尼亚首都）的原因是：
a免税伏特加酒 b免税啤酒 c要热诚集会…不需要在斯德哥尔摩或Tallinn下船，直接转头返回芬兰。
8. Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than two spoonfuls per person.
您的咖啡消耗量超出每天6杯，并且如果每份咖啡量少于二匙的话那么咖啡就太没味道了 。
9. You pass a grocery store and think: "Wow, it is open, I had better go in and buy something!"
您通过杂货店并且认为： “wow ，开门的，我最好进去买点什么!”
10. Your native language has seriously deteriorated, now you begin to "eat medicine", "open the television", "close the lights off", and tell someone: "you needn't to!". Expressions like "Don't panic" creep into your everyday language.
您的母语严重恶化了，您现在开始“吃医学”， “打开电视”， “接近光”，并且告诉某人：您不需要!”。 表示象“不恐慌”蠕动入您的每天语言。
11. You associate pea soup with Thursday. .
您把浓豌豆汤和星期四联系在一起。
12. Your idea of unforgivable behavior now includes walking across the street when the light is red and there is no walk symbol, even though there are no cars in sight.
您现在认为不可原谅的行为包括闯红灯，还有在没有步行灯标志的地方横跨街道，即使没有任何汽车在视线内。
13. Your notion of street life is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.
您对街道生活的概念减少到仅仅是在星期五夜晚停留在火车站前面的几个少年。
14. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the stores closed, and begin to feel restful instead.
星期天不再因为所有商店不营业而感觉愚蠢和停滞，并且开始感到宁静。
15. You finally stop asking your class "Are there any questions?" .
您终于不再在课堂上问“还有问题么？”
16. Your old habit of being "Fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
你习惯性的迟到是不可再接受的。您总是准时。
17. Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay.
拥抱成为了做爱前戏的一部分
18. You refuse to wear a hat, even in -30°C weather. ".
您拒绝戴帽子，甚至在-30°C天气。
19. You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume: a. they are drunk， b. they are Swedish-speaking， c. they are Americans， d. all of the above.
您在火车上听见大声说话的乘客，您立刻假设：
a他们喝多了，b他们是瑞典语人，c 他们是美国人，d 以上全部。
20. You no longer look at sports pants as casual wear, but recognize them as almost formal wear. 您不再把运动服作为便衣，可是几乎将他们看作礼服。
21. You have undergone a transformation: a. you accept mustamakkara (Black blood sausage) as food， b. you accept alcohol as food。 c. you accept.
您接受了以下改变：
a您接受mustamakkara (黑血肠)作为食物，b，您接受酒精作为食物 c 你同意这说法。
22. You understand why the Finnish language has no future tense.
您了解为什么芬兰语语言没有将来时
23. You no longer have to search for the flushing mechanism.
您不再搜寻冲洗装置
24. You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with loafers.
您不再认为白色袜子与平底便鞋搭配有什么问题。
25. You just love Jaffa.
你就是喜欢Jaffa
26. You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging.
您逐渐期望星期天早晨路边的呕吐。
27. You know that "religious holiday" means "let's get pissed."
你知道为什么宗教节日要叫“让我们去捕鱼吧”
28. You enjoy salmiakki.
你喜欢salmiakki (甘草糖）
29. You know that "Gents" is another term for sidewalk.
您知道“绅士”是人行道的代名词
30. You know that more than four channels means cable.
你知道超过4个频道意味着有线电视
31. When you're hungry you can peel a boiled potato like lightning.
当你饿极时，能闪电般的剥煮熟的带皮马铃薯。
32. You've become lactose intolerant.
你变得对的乳糖过敏
33. You accept that 80°C in a sauna is chilly, but 20°C outside is freaking hot.
您认为在桑那里面80°C太冷了，但室外20°C是贼热。
34. You know how to fix herring in 105 different ways.
您会用105种不同的方法打理鲱鱼。
35. You eat herring in 105 ways.
您用105种不同的方式吃鲱鱼
36. "No comment" becomes a conversation strategy.
“不做评论”成为一种交谈战略。
37. You can't understand why people live anywhere but in Finland.
你不明白为什么有人愿意住在芬兰以外的地方。
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这是Facebook上的版本，有些补充~
1) You think it is normal to have lunch at 11:00
2) When you go to a post office, bank or pharmacy you first start looking for a waiting ticket. You think it is normal to stand in line for getting a waiting ticket.
3) A deep sigh is a part of your daily vocabulary, and so is “hmmmm”.
4) When there is 70°C in sauna it is cold, but when there is 25°C outside it is hot.
5) A natural part of a business meeting is to spend time naked in a hot room with people you don`t know.
6) A stranger smiling at you is
a) crazy
b) drunk
c) foreigner
d) all of the above
7) You go to cruise
a) to buy tax free beer
b) to buy tax free booze
c) to party
8) You are always on time
9) Shoes and white sporting socks are an acceptable combination
10) You`ll get drunk on religious holidays
11) You`d rather stay at home than go drinking in a pub.
12) You consider it normal to go to a summer cottage in the middle of a forest to be eaten by moskitos and to drink booze.
13) 5°C means mild weather.
14) Your wear warm clothes in April even though there is 25°C, because it is April. You wear a t-shirt and shorts in July even though there is
10°C, because it is July.
15) You wear socks and sandals at the same time.
16) Temperature below zero and snow does not stop you from biking.
17) You get annoyed if a bus / train is two minutes late
18) Your wife is watching television while you take care of the kids.
19) You think it is normal to keep on walking when a stranger asks you something on the street.
20) You have been engaged for four years without thinking of getting married.
21) You automatically put your hand in your pocket when you hear a mobile ringing.
22) You are interested in the new models of mobile phones and whether your mobile is following the latest trend.
23) When your colleagues ask you to go out for a drink after work you know that is result in a long night and a head-breaking hangover next day
24) Most of your friends are called the same and you have to use their last names to make a separation.
25) You go to the movies in time to see the commercials.
26) A piece of tomato on a piece if lettuce can be called a salad.
27) You consider it normal that the last name which start with v and w are located in the same place in the telephone directory.
28) Silence is fun.
29) You find it normal to drink milk with your meals.
30) You finally stop asking your class "Are there any questions?"
31) Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay
32) You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, cream and sugar.
我看到这篇文章的链接是：http://www.kina.cc/cm/script/forum/view.asp?article_id=5516418
这是一个名叫”老栗子“的英国人在Helsingin Sanomat的网站上写的一篇文章。原文名为：You Know You Have Been In Finland Too Long, When... （当以下事情发生时，你就知道你在芬兰待的时间太长了）。 记录了一些作为长期在芬兰居住的外国人（同样是白人）所感觉到的文化差异和融合。 参与评论的furriner(芬兰人口中的“外国人“）要求在芬兰居住了20年以上，并且有过小小的犯罪最好。 我把这篇文章翻译了一下，风趣好玩的文化差异。有一部分到现在已有小小体会了呵呵···
1. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage.
你对自己的塑料袋收藏翻来翻去，看哪个应该保留用来带到商店去，那些可以被牺牲到垃圾里面去。
2. When a stranger on the street smiles at you: a. you assume he is drunk. b. he is insane， c. he's an American
当一个陌生人在街道对你微笑（你会认为）：
a假设他是醉了 b他疯了 c 他是美国人
3. You don't think twice about putting the wet dishes away in the cupboard to dry.
你想都不想就把湿漉漉的盘仍到碗柜里晾干。
4. A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer: "Oh, I'm going to Europe!" meaning any other Western European country outside Scandinavia.
朋友询问您假日计划和您答复： “Oh，我去欧洲!” 意味在斯堪的那维亚（北欧四国)以外的其他西欧国家。
5. You see a student taking a front row seat and wonder "Who does he think he is!!??"
你看到有学生坐在最前排就想“他认为他是谁!??"
6. Silence is fun. 沈默是乐趣。
7. The reason you take the ferry to Stockholm or Tallinn is: a. duty free vodka，b. duty free beer，c. to party heartily...no need to get off the boat in Stockholm or Tallinn, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Finland.
您乘轮渡到斯德哥尔摩或Tallinn(爱沙尼亚首都）的原因是：
a免税伏特加酒 b免税啤酒 c要热诚集会…不需要在斯德哥尔摩或Tallinn下船，直接转头返回芬兰。
8. Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than two spoonfuls per person.
您的咖啡消耗量超出每天6杯，并且如果每份咖啡量少于二匙的话那么咖啡就太没味道了 。
9. You pass a grocery store and think: "Wow, it is open, I had better go in and buy something!"
您通过杂货店并且认为： “wow ，开门的，我最好进去买点什么!”
10. Your native language has seriously deteriorated, now you begin to "eat medicine", "open the television", "close the lights off", and tell someone: "you needn't to!". Expressions like "Don't panic" creep into your everyday language.
您的母语严重恶化了，您现在开始“吃医学”， “打开电视”， “接近光”，并且告诉某人：您不需要!”。 表示象“不恐慌”蠕动入您的每天语言。
11. You associate pea soup with Thursday. .
您把浓豌豆汤和星期四联系在一起。
12. Your idea of unforgivable behavior now includes walking across the street when the light is red and there is no walk symbol, even though there are no cars in sight.
您现在认为不可原谅的行为包括闯红灯，还有在没有步行灯标志的地方横跨街道，即使没有任何汽车在视线内。
13. Your notion of street life is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.
您对街道生活的概念减少到仅仅是在星期五夜晚停留在火车站前面的几个少年。
14. Sundays no longer seem dull with all the stores closed, and begin to feel restful instead.
星期天不再因为所有商店不营业而感觉愚蠢和停滞，并且开始感到宁静。
15. You finally stop asking your class "Are there any questions?" .
您终于不再在课堂上问“还有问题么？”
16. Your old habit of being "Fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
你习惯性的迟到是不可再接受的。您总是准时。
17. Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay.
拥抱成为了做爱前戏的一部分
18. You refuse to wear a hat, even in -30°C weather. ".
您拒绝戴帽子，甚至在-30°C天气。
19. You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. You immediately assume: a. they are drunk， b. they are Swedish-speaking， c. they are Americans， d. all of the above.
您在火车上听见大声说话的乘客，您立刻假设：
a他们喝多了，b他们是瑞典语人，c 他们是美国人，d 以上全部。
20. You no longer look at sports pants as casual wear, but recognize them as almost formal wear. 您不再把运动服作为便衣，可是几乎将他们看作礼服。
21. You have undergone a transformation: a. you accept mustamakkara (Black blood sausage) as food， b. you accept alcohol as food。 c. you accept.
您接受了以下改变：
a您接受mustamakkara (黑血肠)作为食物，b，您接受酒精作为食物 c 你同意这说法。
22. You understand why the Finnish language has no future tense.
您了解为什么芬兰语语言没有将来时
23. You no longer have to search for the flushing mechanism.
您不再搜寻冲洗装置
24. You no longer see any problem wearing white socks with loafers.
您不再认为白色袜子与平底便鞋搭配有什么问题。
25. You just love Jaffa.
你就是喜欢Jaffa
26. You've come to expect Sunday morning sidewalk vomit dodging.
您逐渐期望星期天早晨路边的呕吐。
27. You know that "religious holiday" means "let's get pissed."
你知道为什么宗教节日要叫“让我们去捕鱼吧”
28. You enjoy salmiakki.
你喜欢salmiakki (甘草糖）
29. You know that "Gents" is another term for sidewalk.
您知道“绅士”是人行道的代名词
30. You know that more than four channels means cable.
你知道超过4个频道意味着有线电视
31. When you're hungry you can peel a boiled potato like lightning.
当你饿极时，能闪电般的剥煮熟的带皮马铃薯。
32. You've become lactose intolerant.
你变得对的乳糖过敏
33. You accept that 80°C in a sauna is chilly, but 20°C outside is freaking hot.
您认为在桑那里面80°C太冷了，但室外20°C是贼热。
34. You know how to fix herring in 105 different ways.
您会用105种不同的方法打理鲱鱼。
35. You eat herring in 105 ways.
您用105种不同的方式吃鲱鱼
36. "No comment" becomes a conversation strategy.
“不做评论”成为一种交谈战略。
37. You can't understand why people live anywhere but in Finland.
你不明白为什么有人愿意住在芬兰以外的地方。
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这是Facebook上的版本，有些补充~
1) You think it is normal to have lunch at 11:00
2) When you go to a post office, bank or pharmacy you first start looking for a waiting ticket. You think it is normal to stand in line for getting a waiting ticket.
3) A deep sigh is a part of your daily vocabulary, and so is “hmmmm”.
4) When there is 70°C in sauna it is cold, but when there is 25°C outside it is hot.
5) A natural part of a business meeting is to spend time naked in a hot room with people you don`t know.
6) A stranger smiling at you is
a) crazy
b) drunk
c) foreigner
d) all of the above
7) You go to cruise
a) to buy tax free beer
b) to buy tax free booze
c) to party
8) You are always on time
9) Shoes and white sporting socks are an acceptable combination
10) You`ll get drunk on religious holidays
11) You`d rather stay at home than go drinking in a pub.
12) You consider it normal to go to a summer cottage in the middle of a forest to be eaten by moskitos and to drink booze.
13) 5°C means mild weather.
14) Your wear warm clothes in April even though there is 25°C, because it is April. You wear a t-shirt and shorts in July even though there is
10°C, because it is July.
15) You wear socks and sandals at the same time.
16) Temperature below zero and snow does not stop you from biking.
17) You get annoyed if a bus / train is two minutes late
18) Your wife is watching television while you take care of the kids.
19) You think it is normal to keep on walking when a stranger asks you something on the street.
20) You have been engaged for four years without thinking of getting married.
21) You automatically put your hand in your pocket when you hear a mobile ringing.
22) You are interested in the new models of mobile phones and whether your mobile is following the latest trend.
23) When your colleagues ask you to go out for a drink after work you know that is result in a long night and a head-breaking hangover next day
24) Most of your friends are called the same and you have to use their last names to make a separation.
25) You go to the movies in time to see the commercials.
26) A piece of tomato on a piece if lettuce can be called a salad.
27) You consider it normal that the last name which start with v and w are located in the same place in the telephone directory.
28) Silence is fun.
29) You find it normal to drink milk with your meals.
30) You finally stop asking your class "Are there any questions?"
31) Hugging is reserved for sexual foreplay
32) You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, cream and sugar.
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