Name: 對不起！為什麼加拿大人經常說 "對不起"？ (SORRY! Why Canadians say “sorry” so much)
Uploaded: 2025-07-17T09:31:41.000Z
Duration: 10 min 33 s

Two things I'm going to let you know right away that I'm Canadian.

有兩件事我要馬上告訴你，我是加拿大人。

The way that Canadians say sorry, one of our favourite words, and I didn't know this was a thing.

加拿大人說 "對不起 "的方式，這是我們最喜歡說的詞之一，我不知道還有這種說法。

We say soar, like ow, ow, ow, that's soar, sorry, whereas our friends in America say sorry.

我們說 "翱翔"，就像 "嗷嗷"、"嗷嗷"、"嗷嗷"，那是 "翱翔"、"對不起"，而美國朋友說的是 "對不起"。

That's going to depend on what state they're from in America too, but there is quite the regional differentiation between Canadian sorry and American sorry.

這也取決於他們來自美國的哪個州，但加拿大的 "對不起 "和美國的 "對不起 "在地區上還是有很大區別的。

Are you wearing some native clothes from India over there?

And Canadians are famous for saying this.

加拿大人說這句話是出了名的。

Apparently, apparently we say this nine times a day, and Olag, this lesson is for you because you're the one that told me about this.

顯然，顯然我們一天要說九遍，奧拉格，這節課是給你上的，因為是你告訴我的。

Well, there are circumstances when we definitely shouldn't say it.

在某些情況下，我們絕對不應該這麼說。

We should say other words, like pardon or excuse me, but Canadians have this thing of saying sorry.

我們應該說其他的詞，比如 "原諒 "或 "對不起"，但加拿大人就是喜歡說 "對不起"。

So, oh, sorry, oh, sorry, it's hot in here, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry.

所以，哦，對不起，哦，對不起，這裡很熱，哦，對不起，對不起，對不起。

我們這麼說是因為我們非常有禮貌。

Yeah, apparently Canadians are known to be polite.

是啊，加拿大人顯然是出了名的有禮貌。

Maybe that's because we're saying sorry all the time.

也許這是因為我們一直在說對不起。

But when you look at the roots of it, it's more to diffuse conflict.

但究其根源，更多的是為了化解衝突。

So, and this happens to me a lot because I'm kind of a person that likes to walk quickly and get things done.

所以，這種情況經常發生在我身上，因為我是那種喜歡快步走、把事情做完的人。

If I'm at a supermarket or, god forbid, I'm in a mall, I hate those things, and I'm walking and there's someone in front of me that is in my way, I usually, usually, usually, usually go, hey, man, I'm sorry.

如果我在超市裡，或者，上帝保佑，我在商場裡，我討厭那些東西，我走著走著，前面有人擋住了我的路，我通常，通常，通常，通常會說，嘿，夥計，對不起。

I usually will just walk because people annoy me, but the funny thing is that if I'm walking this way and I hit the person, not intentionally, the other person will apologize to me and say sorry, and I'm like, it's your fault for sure, but it was my fault, so I don't know.

我通常會走路，因為別人會惹惱我，但有趣的是，如果我走這條路時撞到了人，不是故意的，對方會向我道歉，說對不起，我就會想，這肯定是你的錯，但這是我的錯，所以我不知道。

So, usually the person who didn't do anything wrong says sorry.

所以，通常是沒做錯事的人說對不起。

So, you're on a crowded bus or a crowded subway and you have a backpack, and your backpack hits the other person.

所以，你在擁擠的公車或地鐵上，揹著一個揹包，結果你的揹包撞到了別人。

The other person who got hit by the backpack will apologize to your backpack.

被揹包砸到的其他人會向你的揹包道歉。

It should be the person that hit you should say, oh, I'm sorry.

打你的人應該說，哦，對不起。

我們感到非常遺憾，這太可怕了。

There's a law passed, not getting into the details of it, but there was something in some law somewhere saying that sorry does not actually mean that you are at fault for it.

有一項法律已經通過，具體細節我就不多說了，但在某部法律中規定，對不起並不意味著你有過錯。

It's just acknowledging, which our country is famous for.

這只是承認，我們的國家就是以承認而聞名。

You're just acknowledging that it happened.

You're not saying like, oh, I did it, it's my fault, but it's a way to diffuse the situation and say, yeah, sorry.

你不是說，哦，是我乾的，是我的錯，但這是一種化解矛盾的方式，你可以說，是的，對不起。

This is a first kind of incidence where I noticed this.

這是我第一次注意到這種情況。

So, I have a lot of students that obviously I'm teaching them English, and they would say things when they didn't understand, like, pardon.

所以，我有很多學生，顯然我是在教他們英語，他們會在不明白的時候說一些話，比如，對不起。

When you ask someone to repeat something and you say what, you have to be careful of your intonation, because if you say what, whoa, don't get mad at me, so intonation is very, very, very important.

當你要求別人重複某句話，而你說 "什麼 "時，你必須注意語調，因為如果你說 "什麼"，哇哦，別生我的氣，所以語調非常、非常、非常重要。

And if you say it like this, the speaker might think you're a little stupid.

如果你這樣說，說話的人可能會覺得你有點傻。

So, pardon's too formal, pardon, pardon me, sounds like you're British.

所以，"原諒 "太正式了，"請原諒"，"請原諒"，聽起來你像是英國人。

那麼，我們該如何對待加拿大人呢？

你必須提高你的聲音作為一個問題。

Do this to ask for clarification or to repeat information.

這樣做是為了要求澄清或重複資訊。

So, if someone says, hey, yesterday I went to the...

所以，如果有人說，嘿，昨天我去了...

Number one, you smash into someone, they apologize to you, thank you.

第一，你撞了人，他們會向你道歉，謝謝。

Now, the thing that annoys me when I'm trying to learn another language is because I use sorry all the time, I think, pfft, I can just use sorry in Portuguese or sorry in Spanish and it'll work the same way.

現在，當我試圖學習另一門語言時，最讓我苦惱的是，因為我總是使用 "對不起"，我就想，噗，我可以用葡萄牙語說 "對不起"，或者用西班牙語說 "對不起"，效果都是一樣的。

And excuse me is what Canadians should be saying about 42% of the time, because instead of saying excuse me, we say sorry.

加拿大人有 42% 的時間應該說 "對不起"，因為我們不說 "對不起"，而是說 "對不起"。

This is what I was telling you about being on a crowded bus or a subway if your...

這就是我跟你說過的，在擁擠的公車或地鐵上，如果你...

Your bag hits someone or if you're standing...

您的包撞到了別人，或者您站在...

Sitting beside someone and you, like, accidentally touch them, oh my god, what have you done?

坐在別人身邊，不小心碰了一下，天哪，你都幹了些什麼？

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