Chapter 750: Construction site English and sports mathematics when working in a supermarket
Many, many times, many, many times,
The reality gap is caused by your own gap.
Of course you can go to famous universities all over the world, but if you don't know anything, you may not be able to get out of this mountain.
Money, status, connections, reputation, power, knowledge, family, friends, and countless other things form the foundation that supports your life in this world and determine the height you stand on.
What was London to Fangran before?
It's probably Big Ben, it's the streets of England, it's St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, it's the London Eye and the British Museum, it's the Lanthol Building in the Financial City that he regarded as a 'trap', it's his debut battle in the world of night fighting.
A stage for A-level battles.
But after arriving in this kind of city in person, I found that it is, for me,
It's the British pound, it's the supermarket, it's the streets that only move in a few blocks, it's the remote rooftops where we temporarily settle down.
It was a huge maze of streets full of English, people speaking a language he could barely understand.
Wrapping up a blanket on the rooftop at night, Fangran looked at London in the distance. In the simulated scene, he could easily cross a distance of several thousand meters and reach an altitude of nearly 10,000 meters. Buildings were passing between them.
fell in the aftermath of the battle, and the entire city became their battlefield.
But now it takes him more than an hour to walk from where he sleeps to the supermarket.
London suddenly became bigger.
"...do you have um...mbership card?..."
"Three dollars and four, five dollars and eight, one, two, three, four, sixteen, eighteen...Total, no, the total is...um...that...nieen pounds and eighty pence..."
"...have twenty pounds from you..."
"Looking for you two... cough, twenty pence... is your change, here you are."
At the exit of the supermarket in Stratford, next to the cashier, I quickly scanned the barcode of the product with my hand, and quickly typed out a bunch of numbers with my fingers to add them up. In contrast to the action of quickly tearing off the receipt, I spoke a little
jerky spoken language,
Fangran quickly put the salmon, pork, beef and various vegetables bought by the lady in front of him into a bag and handed them to her along with the change.
London time, 5:30 pm.
It was the time when most people got off work, and it was also the time when there were the most people in the supermarket. At this moment, Fangran and Tang Bing were standing back to back, handling the long queue of customers waiting to check out.
"Oh, petent boy."
There was no long wait for the service, which made the blond housewife in front of me exclaim in surprise, and then left with satisfaction while carrying her bag.
But to be honest, Fangran responded politely with a smile
I actually didn't understand what she said.
When he had nothing to do in the afternoon, he had already learned from Tang Bing how to check out customers and some simple cashier terms. Fangran, who officially started working, unexpectedly found that dealing with people was not as difficult as he thought.
The main reason is that he found that in London, England, the spoken English spoken by foreigners is also some simple sentences and basic vocabulary for middle and high school, which are not as complex and complicated as his cute and charming CET-4 English.
Of course, when the other party speaks too fast and uses words that are beyond the junior high school level, he should just be confused or confused...
However, this is not important!
In order to thoroughly implement the principle that Tang Bing rolled his eyes and taught him in the afternoon, "You don't care what others say, just settle the accounts." Fangran felt that in just half an hour of work,
I have become very proficient in using phrases such as ‘Do you have a membership card?’, ‘How much is the total’, ‘How much will I charge you’, ‘How much will it cost you?’, etc.
I feel my rapid growth in a pure English environment.
Is this the impact of the environment...
"Am I actually very talented in English...?"
"Senior, please stop dreaming! How can your construction site English give you such an illusion!"
Then just when Fang Ran was in a daze and murmuring these words, he was immediately met by Tang Bing behind him, who looked frightened and collapsed, and then he lost his virginity with a blank look... Bah! Heshen said:
"You have time to talk in your sleep, can you speed up? There will be more and more people in a while!"
"But I seem to be faster than you."
“What!!!∑(((?Д?ノ)ノ!?”
Supermarket cashiering is actually a very simple job. It mainly requires quick hands and accurate calculation of money. After spending more than ten minutes getting used to it, Fangran soon discovered that he seemed to be quite good at it.
Well, after all, simple mathematics such as accounting and pricing is something that was done before high school. Fang Ran is quite good at what he learned before high school, not to mention that the reflexes of the participants are more than enough to handle collecting money and calculating accounts.
Then Fangran slowly discovered on the way...
British people are really bad at math (covering face and laughing).
After a lady in her thirties bought 17 pounds and 47 pence, she took the 2 pounds and 53 pence that Fangran gave him in change and counted it beside her for about half a minute.
Fang Ran, who was busy counting next to her, had his eyes wide open and doubted life, thinking that he might have made a mistake in his calculations before he finally nodded and left with confidence.
And then there is another thing: when he saw 10P, 20P, or fractions of 1 pound, he completely subconsciously tried to use his own pickled English and said, "Do you, hava, just a fraction, so I can
After saying this to you Zhang Zheng,
Often more than half of the people will be stunned, and then ask in a very confused tone:
"Ha? Why?"
To be honest, when I first heard this sentence "Why", Fangran was speechless and doubted whether their elementary school mathematics was taught by their physical education teacher.
It turns out that the school girl was not a hacker of British mathematics before (sweat)...
In fact, as Fangran saw, supermarket cashiers in the UK, in addition to sitting down to work, are often very stubborn and ask you for a lot of coins. In China, there are aunties filling egg cakes on the roadside.
You can’t see the principles of finding money that you are used to here.
Perhaps it is because the language cannot be as concise and concise as Chinese. There has never been anything like Xiao Jiujiu before. The ordinary British people are really poor at mathematics. Regardless of whether the widely circulated former Prime Minister and Secretary of Education really cannot answer 9x8 and
11x12 this kind of problem,
However, previous reports show that due to insufficient mathematical skills, the UK loses more than 20 billion pounds every year, which is estimated to account for 1.3% of GDP. Even based on the most conservative calculation, the loss is still as high as 6.7 billion pounds, accounting for 0.4% of GDP.
But what is amazing is that the highest award in mathematics, the Fields Medal, has been won by 7 people from the UK, second only to France and the United States. For the Nobel Prize in science, 69 people from the UK have won it, ranking second in the world. What do you think?
The familiar Newton, but the unfamiliar Bertrand Russell, Alan Turing, and Isaac Barrow are all British.
But aside from these things, there are not many people in the supermarket during this off-duty period, perhaps because the settlement is quick and there are not many coins.
Fangran looked at him and Tang Bing standing in a queue of a fixed length at the checkout, and rolled his eyes speechlessly. He finally understood why Tang Bing said before that he was willing to recruit Chinese students here to work.
щ(°Д°#щ) Hey, sister over there, you are so slow. If you were in our country, you would have lost your job early!
I don’t know if [Double Card] has been used too much. Fangran, who was still complaining while checking out the cash, tore off the receipt as usual and was about to put everything into the bag.
The woman in front of her suddenly shouted angrily, stopping Fangran's movement and pointing at the salmon, vegetables, fruits, bread and jam she bought.
He said something rudely that Fangran couldn't quite understand.
Fangran: "(?~?;)En...."
Glancing at this old woman who was dressed rather smugly, Baby Fangran pondered for a second, and then recalled the last thing his attentive schoolgirl emphasized to him before starting his part-time job.
'Ah, that's right, senior, ordinary customers won't say much to you. If you accidentally meet a picky customer, don't speak in your construction site English!'
#)Hmph~(Pinching my waist, not happy.jpg)
Hitting the schoolgirl behind him with his elbow, Fangran rolled his eyes in a low voice and said:
"Hey, junior fellow student, junior fellow student, switch sides, the idea here is a bit tricky."
Because he had been working here for more than a month and had not yet started his first day of construction site English, Fangran was deeply struck by his high efficiency. Tang Bing, who was concentrating, was stunned when he heard these words and made a confused sound.
"Ha!?"
"Hurry! Hurry, I need to put my salmon and beef into separate bags, and then the vegetables and bananas also need to be separated from the others..."
"Ah ah ah, it's coming, it's coming, I'm sorry, I'll pack it up for you right now."
Then, when the demanding old woman was clamoring for various demands again and hurriedly stepped forward to respond, Tang Bing heard Fang Ran, who had switched to his side and was still faster than him, cheering for him in a low voice.
"Come on! School girl! Give her some color see see!"
God damn give her some color see see!
Senior, is your construction site English still loose?