火车上聊英语和行程：weeks on end

So how do you speak such good English?

你怎么英语说得这么好？ 用 such 把夸奖说得很直接，好奇里也有一点越界的冒犯感。

So I'm the crude, dumb, vulgar American who doesn't speak any other languages, who has no culture, right?

所以我就是那个粗鲁、愚蠢、粗俗、不会说任何外语、没有文化的美国人，对吧？ 三个贬义词连发，把刻板印象抢过来自嘲，反问比辩解更有力。

Sitting, you know, for weeks on end, looking out the window has actually been kinda great.

你知道，一连好几周坐着看窗外，其实还挺棒的。 把漫长重复的旅程收成一个安静画面，kinda great 让疲惫显得柔软。

I took French for four years in high school.

我高中选过四年法语。 四年学法语的资历先摆出来，下一句糗事才有反差笑点。