It all went wrong

一切都乱套了

We had an important visitor from China to our company in New York last summer and it was my job to see that this customer was properly looked after. Unfortunately， when I went out to a restaurant for a meal on the first evening with him， things did not go too well. Mistakes were made on both sides and I think we both learnt a lot about the two different cultures！

去年夏天在纽约，有一位重要的访客从中国来到我们公司，我负责照顾好这位客人。不幸的是，第一个晚上我与他去餐厅吃饭的时候，事情就不太顺利。我们都犯了错，我认为我们都学到了很多关于两种不同文化的东西。

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题目是《一切都乱套了》，充满贬斥之意。

第一段开篇以文化差异之名引出后面的故事。文章提到一位美国商人接待中国客户，从一开始就不顺利，感觉非常糟糕。如果是教育职校学生国际交往的能力，难道不应该选取一篇合作愉快的文案吗？非要用一篇感觉糟糕的文案进行教育，能起到什么效果呢？我们不妨看看文章的内容，来判断对学生的影响。

My first mistake was that I sat down on his right. I didn't realise that， as he was the guest， he should have sat on my right. This was bad enough but then I started to talk about the business deal. I didn't realise that my Chinese guest wanted to get to know me first. I became worried when my guest didn't want to start talking business.

我的第一个错误是坐在了客人的右边，我没有意识到，他作为客人应该坐在我的右边。这已经够糟糕了，但是我接下来就开始谈生意。我没有意识到我的中国客人想先了解我。见客人不想谈生意，我开始担心起来。