麦当劳得来速

我以前不知道麦当劳drive-through用中文怎么说,因为以前中国没有,今天特意上网查了一下中国现在也有drive-through了,中文叫得来速。

我不喜欢别人说中文的时候夹杂着英语单词,可是有时候我自己也这样,因为第一次接触这些事物的时候用的是英语,而且很难翻译成对应的中文。

不知道为什么今天不想做早餐,所以我就去麦当劳。结果发现里边有很多学生,我不想等,于是又开上车走drive thru通道,这样确实来得速。我一般都用手机App下单,结果订单号是IQ78。把这个号码报给话筒里面的收银员之后,我又感觉不对劲,所以我补充了一句:Just to be clear, my IQ is higher than that.

I used to have no idea how to say McDonald’s “drive-through” in Chinese, because China did not have this kind of service before. Today I deliberately looked it up online and found that China now also has drive-through service, and in Chinese it is called “得来速”.

I do not like it when people mix English words into Chinese while speaking, but sometimes I do the same myself, because when I first encountered certain things, I learned their names in English, and it is genuinely hard to translate them into an exact Chinese equivalent.

For some reason, I did not feel like making breakfast today, so I went to McDonald’s. There were many students inside, and I did not want to wait. So I drove around to the drive-thru lane, which really was faster. I usually order through the mobile app, and this time the order number was IQ78. After I gave this number to the cashier through the speaker, I felt something was a bit off, so I added one more sentence:

Just to be clear, my IQ is higher than that.


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