《大学英语教程》第三册第五课是一位美国失业者的自叙,其中有这么一句话“One interviewer eventually turned me down because,he said,I lack eyeballcontact.”许多学生读到这个句子都迷惑不解,顾名思义,“eyeball”是眼珠,“contact”意思是“接触”、“联系”,文章作者被拒绝雇用,难道是缺乏“眼珠联系”吗?眼珠如何联系,越想越使用期涂。其实,学生们有所不知,这是涉及英美的习俗问 The fifth lesson of “College English Tutorial” Lesson 5 is a self-enumeration of the unemployed in the United States. There is a saying “One interviewer ultimately turned me down because, he said, I lack eyeballcontact.” Many students find this sentence confusing. Unexplained, as the name implies, “eyeball” is the eyeball, “contact” means “contact”, “contact”, and the author of the article was refused employment. Is it the lack of “eye contact”? How does the eyeball relate and the more you want to use it? Actually, students do not know, this is related to the custom of the United States and the United States.