趙元任 忘記英文 Burgundy (French: Bourgogne)而沒機會免費喝美酒的故事
I have cited many instances where I went wrong in matters of language. Now I want to tell about the time when I made a mistake by being too correct. I am fond of a red wine known in Enghsh as Burgundy. But I wasn't too sure where Burgundy was located - what city or province it might be and in what country. After we drove from Switzerland into French territory we stopped in Dijon, the capital city of the province of Bourgogne. When we walked into a hotel we noticed many people standing around a barrel in the lobby and drinking glass after glass from it. I didn't pay much attention to this and pretty soon we went out to eat at a restaurant. We had my favourite red wine for dinner, which was of course billed separately. When we got back to the hotel I discovered that what the people were drinking from that barrel was this very same Burgundy wine. It was served free, gratis, and on the house. It turned out that Dijon is the capital city of the wine-producing Burgundy region. I had only known the province by its French name Bourgogne, without knowing that Bourgogne is none other than my old English friend Burgundy. For just this once, my knowledge of French did not serve me well in France!
https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rct/pdf/e_outputs/b01/v01p015.pdf 回想我在語言上犯過的錯誤(趙元任）Where I Went Wrong in Matters of Language BY Yuen Ren Chao Translated by George Kao
This article is translated from a radio script which
Dr. Chao wrote and recorded in May 1972 for
broadcast by the Chinese-language series of the
Voice of America.
Burgundy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy
Burgundy (French: Bourgogne, IPA: [buʁ.ɡɔɲ] ( listen)) is an administrative and historical region of east-central France. Burgundy comprises the following four ...
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| Country |  France |
|---|---|
| Prefecture | Dijon |
我列舉許多情況下，我去了
錯了語言的問題。現在我想
講述的時候，我被犯了一個錯誤
太正確。我喜歡的紅酒聞名
在Enghsh為勃艮第。不過，我也不太清楚
勃艮第的地方位於 - 哪個城市或
我省它可能是在哪個國家。後
我們驅車從瑞士到法國領土
我們在第戎停了下來，首都的
省勃艮第。當我們走進一個
酒店我們注意到許多人站在周圍
桶的大堂和後玻璃水杯
從它。我沒太注意這一點，
很快我們就出去吃餐館。我們
有我最喜歡的紅酒晚餐，這是
當然分開收取。當我們回到
在酒店，我發現，什麼人都
從該桶飲用水是這同
勃艮第的葡萄酒。它提供免費，無償，並在
房子。原來，第戎是資本
全市葡萄酒生產勃艮第地區。我有
只能通過它的法文名字聞名全省
勃艮第，不知道勃艮第是
沒有比我老的英國朋友勃艮第等。
對於只是這一次，我的法語知識做
不為我服務以及在法國！
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