英国人讨厌的美式英语（上）

11. Transportation. What's wrong with transport?
11. Transportation（交通工具）。就不能用transport吗？

12. The word I hate to hear is "leverage". Pronounced lev-er-ig rather than lee-ver-ig. It seems to pop up in all aspects of work. And its meaning seems to have changed to "value added".
12. 我讨厌听到的词是“leverage”。把它读成lev-er-ig（美），而不是lee-ver-ig（英）。好像各行各业突然都这么读了，意思貌似也变成“附加值”了。（leverage在美式英语中有“举债经营”的意思，英式英语用gearing表达此意）

13. Does nobody celebrate a birthday anymore, must we all "turn" 12 or 21 or 40? Even the Duke of Edinburgh was universally described as "turning" 90 last month. When did this begin? I quite like the phrase in itself, but it seems to have obliterated all other ways of speaking about birthdays.
13. 难道没人庆祝生日（celebrate a birthday）了吗？我们一定都要“turn”12岁或者21岁或者40岁吗？连爱丁堡公爵过生日也统统说成上个月他“turning”90岁。这是什么时候开始的？我喜欢这个表达本身，但它似乎取代掉其他所有谈论生日的说法了。

14. I caught myself saying "shopping cart" instead of shopping trolley today and was thoroughly disgusted with myself. I've never lived nor been to the US either.
14. 我发现现在自己会说："shopping cart（购物手推车）”而不是shopping trolley ，我非常讨厌这一点。我从没去过美国，也没在美国生活过。

15. What kind of word is "gotten"? It makes me shudder.
15."Gotten（get的过去分词，美式用法）"到底是个什么词？它总是让我不寒而栗。

16. "I'm good" for "I'm well". That'll do for a start.
16. 用“I'm good（我很好）”替代“I'm well”。刚开始感觉都可以。

17. "Bangs" for a fringe of the hair.
17. 用"bangs"表示刘海。

18. Take-out rather than takeaway!
18. 说take-out（外卖）而不是takeaway!

19. I enjoy Americanisms. I suspect even some Americans use them in a tongue-in-cheek manner? "That statement was the height of ridiculosity".
19. 我喜欢美式英语。不过我怀疑甚至一些美国人也是虚情假意地在用它们。“这份声明简直是荒谬（ridiculosity）。”

20. "A half hour" instead of "half an hour".
20. 说“a half hour（半小时）”而不是“half an hour”。