Name: 跟著加拿大人Bob學英文系列：學習如何禮貌地用英語問路、用餐、提建議！ (Learn How To Ask Polite English Questions For Directions, In Restaurants, Suggestions, and More!)
Uploaded: 2025-08-16T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 5 min

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So in my last English lesson, I showed you how to end a question so that it sounds more polite.

在我上一堂英文課中，我教過你如何結尾一個問題，讓它聽起來更有禮貌。

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But a few of you asked, "How do you start a question, Bob, so it sounds more polite?

但有幾位同學問我：「Bob，那問題一開始要怎麼問，才會聽起來更有禮貌呢？」

過去簡單式

所以在這一課，我就要來講這件事。

I'll look at five different situations, five different times in your life where you might ask questions.

我會介紹五種不同的情境，也就是你人生中可能會問問題的五個時刻。

And I'll show you exactly how to start those questions so they sound polite.

我會清楚示範，在這些情況下，問題該怎麼開頭才會聽起來有禮貌。

The first situation where you might need to ask questions politics politely is when you want something.

第一種你可能需要禮貌發問的情況，是當你「想要某樣東西」的時候。

Imagine you're sitting in a restaurant, but you don't have menus.

想像你坐在餐廳裡，但桌上沒有菜單。

You want to order food, you're really hungry, but you don't have menus.

你想點餐、肚子很餓，但就是沒有菜單。

You'll need to ask the server to bring you menus.

這時你就需要請服務生幫你拿菜單。

And you could do that politely in the following three ways.

你可以用以下三種有禮貌的方式來問。

You could say, "Could you bring us menus?"

你可以說：「可以幫我們拿菜單嗎？」

You could say, "I'd love it if you could bring us menus."

你也可以說：「如果你能幫我們拿菜單，我會很感激。」

Or you could say, "Would you mind bringing us menus?"

或者你可以說：「你介意幫我們拿菜單嗎？」

Be careful with that last one, though, because the verb changes a little bit.

不過最後這個要特別小心，因為動詞的形式會稍微改變。

All three of those, in my opinion, are a very polite way to ask for something that you want.

在我看來，這三種方式都非常有禮貌。

"Could you..." or "I'd love it if you could...," or "Would you mind...?"

「Could you…」、「I'd love it if you could…」，或是「Would you mind…？」

The next situation where you might need to ask polite questions is when you're asking for permission to do something.

下一種需要禮貌發問的情況，是當你在「請求允許」做某件事。

Imagine you're sitting in a classroom and it's really, really hot in the classroom and you want to open the window.

想像你坐在教室裡，教室非常、非常熱，而你想打開窗戶。

You should ask the teacher before you do that.

在這種情況下，你應該先詢問老師。

Or "Would it be all right if I open a window?"

All of those would be great polite ways to ask for permission to do something.

這些都是非常有禮貌、用來請求允許的方式。

There are many times in life where you might want to do something, but

人生中有很多時候，你想做某件事，

someone else has to tell you you're allowed to do it.

但必須由別人來決定你可不可以做。

So those would be three great ways to do that.

You can start your question with, "Would it be okay if...?"

你可以用「Would it be okay if…？」來開頭。

The third situation where you might need to ask polite questions is if you are wanting information.

第三種需要禮貌提問的情況，是當你「想詢問資訊」。

Imagine you are in a town and you are not familiar with that town and you need to find the bank.

想像你在一個陌生的小鎮，想找銀行卻不知道在哪。

You could ask one of the following three polite questions.

你可以用以下三種有禮貌的方式來詢問。

You could ask someone, could you tell me where the bank is?

你可以問：「你可以告訴我銀行在哪嗎？」

You could ask someone, do you know where the bank is?

你也可以問：「你知道銀行在哪嗎？」

Or you could ask someone, would you happen to know where the bank is?

或者：「你剛好知道銀行在哪嗎？」

All three versions of that question are very, very polite in my opinion.

在我看來，這三種問法都非常有禮貌。

You might want to say excuse me before you ask it, but

在開口之前，你也可以先說一句 excuse me，

definitely if you were looking for the bank, you could say, "Excuse me, could you tell me where the bank is?"

例如：「請問，銀行在哪裡？」

"Excuse me, do you know where the bank is?"

Or "Excuse me, would you happen to know where the bank is?"

或是「請問，您知道銀行在哪裡嗎？」

The next situation where you might need to ask a question politely is one that I hope many of you are in in the future and that's when you are offering help.

下一種需要禮貌提問的情況，是我希望你們未來都能遇到的——那就是「主動提供幫助」。

I always think it's a good idea when you see someone doing something hard, if you have time to offer to help them.

我一直覺得，當你看到別人正在做一件很辛苦的事時，如果你有時間，主動幫忙是件好事。

Imagine you're at work and someone is lifting and moving some heavy boxes.

想像你在工作場合，有人正在搬很重的箱子。

You could ask one of the following three questions.

你可以用以下三種方式來詢問。

You could say, "Would you like some help?"

你可以說：「你需要幫忙嗎？」

你也可以說：「我可以幫你一把嗎？」

Or you could simply just say, "Can I help?"

或者簡單地說：「需要幫忙嗎？」

All three of those would be a really nice way to let the person know you're willing to help them do the that hard job.

這三種說法都能很溫暖地讓對方知道，你願意幫忙。

So if you go through your day today and you see someone that might need some help,

所以今天如果你看到有人需要幫助，

you could ask one of those questions, "Would you like some help?"

你就可以問：「你需要幫忙嗎？」

或是簡單一句：「需要幫忙嗎？」

The next situation where you might want to ask polite questions is when you are making suggestions.

下一種你可能需要禮貌提問的情況，是當你在「提出建議」。

And let's say Jen and I don't know what to make for supper.

假設 Jen 和我不知道晚餐要吃什麼。

I could ask Jen one of the following three questions as a way to make a suggestion for what we should eat for.

我就可以用以下三種問題來提出建議。

I could say something like this: "How about we have pizza for supper?"

Or if I wanted to be more formal, I could say, "Shall we have pizza for supper?"

如果想更正式一點，我可以說：「我們晚餐吃披薩好嗎？」

So if you want to make a suggestion, you can do it in the form of a polite question by asking it in that way.

所以當你想提出建議時，也可以用禮貌的問句來表達。

你可以說：「要不要吃披薩？」

Well, hey, thank you so much for watching this short, itty-bitty English lesson.

好啦，非常感謝你收看這堂短短的英文小課。

I only had time to make a short one this week about how to start questions in a way that makes them sound more polite.

這週我只有時間做一個簡短的影片，教大家如何有禮貌地開頭問問題。

If this is your first time here, don't forget to click that red subscribe button.

如果你是第一次來，別忘了按下紅色的訂閱按鈕。

Give me a thumbs up, leave a comment below and please do consider becoming a member of the channel.

幫我按個讚、留言，也歡迎考慮加入頻道會員。

There's a Join button below or a subscribe plus button.

下面有 Join 按鈕，或是 Subscribe Plus。

And for $1.99 a month, you get a whole lot of stuff if you don't know what it all is, click the button and it will tell you or look in the description below.

每個月只要 1.99 美元，就能獲得很多福利，不知道內容是什麼的話，可以點按鈕或看下方說明。

以我的經驗來說，真的很值得。

I hope you learned something that you can use in your next English conversation.

希望你學到一些下次英文對話中能用上的內容。

I hope you have a great week and I'll see you next week with a English lesson.

祝你有美好的一週，下週再見，帶來新的英文課程。