英语口语表达中如何称呼正与你打交道的官员

Don’t Call Me Dude, Boss or Bro. It’s Comrade to You（By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW），据说对你正在与之打交道的中国官员，即便你心里有点把他当成哥们、兄弟，或者老板——也不要用这些词来称说他。依据官方的英语口语表达说法，这些称说受到了官僚主义、宗派主义、“江湖习惯”等不良风尚的影响。

切实，即使像“哥们”这样的俚语式称呼也是有等级的。以下是一个简短的词汇表，从当初开端你就不能用它们来称谓官员了：（英语口语表达留意，其中良多称呼不适用于女性，然而那些告诉里不提到对女性的称呼。）

• Dude (哥们, gemen or gemer, literally “older brother”). Applied to someone who is your inferior in rank.

哥们”，实用于等级比你低的人。

• Brother or bro (兄弟, xiongdi, “older younger brother”). Also your inferior.

“兄弟”，也适用于等级比你低的人。

• Boss (老板, laoban, “old board,” as in chairman of the board.) Applied to your superior.

“老板”，适用于等级比你高的人。

• Group leader — also the boss of a criminal gang (老大, laoda, “old big”). Also your superior.

“老大”——犯法团伙的老板，也适用于等级比你高的人。

What to call him — or her — instead?

那么怎么英语口语表达称说他——或者她呢？

• Colleague (同事, tongshi, “same affairs”). Unisex and egalitarian, this theoretically works for everyone.

“共事”。男女咸宜，存在等同主义象征，实际上适用于每一个人。

• Comrade (同道, tongzhi, “same ideal”). Also unisex and more radically egalitarian, in decades past this was a near-universal form of address.

“同志”，也是男女皆宜，不外等同主义象征更强，在过去几十年里，这简直是对别人的统称的英语口语表达。

One complication: These days “comrade” has been appropriated by advocates of gay rights to refer to (usually male) homosexuals. An etiquette minefield looms. Advice, Miss Manners?