八下英语续写外星人来了

2024-07-27 作者:

八下英语续写外星人来了

Once before the Iranian revolution, the then President

of the United States Jimmy Carter visited Iran. He held a

formal talk with the Shah, Pahlevi. As the Shah had an

excellent command of English, no interpreters were needed

for the occasion. However, the Shah spoke English with an

accent which led to a misunderstanding on a major question,

Butinterestingly enough, Carter, being a southerner, also

had his accent and so the misundeerstanding turned into a

double one. This is how it all happened. During their talk Carter mentioned a certain African organization and asked

the Shah to give an overall appraisal of it. The Shah

didn't have a very high opinion of the said organization as

he found it beset with many internal problems, so he used

the word "impotent" to describe it. The trouble was in

pronouncing the word he put the stress on the second

syllable and the word sounded like "important" to Carter.

As it happened Carter himself thought the organization was

a very important one and he felt most pleased that their

opinions should "coincide", "Yes, I agree that the

organization is indeed very important," he repeated to the Shah