In Austria, there are not many restaurants like Habibi & Hawara. Here you can enjoy Austrian and Syrian food together. Two Austrians, Martin Rohla and David Kreytenberg, started this yummy plan from their experience of working with refugees.
Every year, thousands of people have to leave their homes and families because of war in their countries. So many of them go to Austria that some people in the country think they have become a problem. They are afraid refugees may take away their jobs and they don't feel safe around them, either. But Rohla and Kreytenberg would beg to differ: The refugees don't have to be a problem. They want to help them start a new life. They invited refugees to meetings and found that some of them were cooks back in Syria. So the idea of Habibi & Hawara was born—a restaurant that brings together Austrian and Syrian food. "The two worlds far away from each other meet together," Kreytenberg said.
But Rohla and Kreytenberg want to do more than just give the refugees work. They want their best workers to buy the restaurant in the end. They hope that Habibi & Hawara is not just a one-time plan and that other Austrians will join them and help more refugees.
refugee 難民
war 戰爭
What does it mean when people beg to differ?
A
They do not agree
B
They look different
C
They cannot speak for others
D
They do not notice something
正解:(A) They do not agree
當人們 beg to differ 的時候,是什麼意思?
(A) 他們持相反意見。
(B) 他們看起來不一樣。
(C) 他們不能替別人發言。
(D) 他們漏看了某個東西。
詳解
這題不能拆字面。beg 是「懇求」、differ 是「不同」,硬拼起來會得到「求著要不一樣」這種怪話。正確的路是看前後文的攻防:前一句說,有些人認為難民是個問題;這一句開頭是 But(但是),後面冒號直接亮出兩人的立場,難民不必是個問題。一個 But、一個完全相反的主張,中間夾著 beg to differ,它的意思只能是「恕難同意、看法不同」。這是英文裡客氣版的反駁,先「恕我」一下,再把不同意見端出來。