[Express English] ─ Do you have an eccentric friend? @ 看BBC學英文

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今天要聊的是我們生命中很重要的一群人，那就是朋友！人生中，如果少了朋友的話，那就像我家樓下少了7-11一樣的痛苦不堪阿！大家說是不是呀？

我相信，各位一定不只一個朋友。我們一路長大到現在，遇人無數，總是會有些人跟我們的tone調一樣。然後，就自然而然的變成了好朋友。在這些朋友中，會有些人的會跟一般人不太一樣。你可以說他，”不平凡” 也可以說他 “偏執”，反正，他的某個部分，有時候會讓人覺得他到底是在想什麼。

近年來，如許純美、Hold住姊、Lady Gaga等狠角色，在某個層面，都跟一般人不太一樣。也許他們私底下不是這樣的人，不過，我想在我們的身邊，不免都會有這種 “另類” 的朋友。大家分享一下你的朋友中，最另類或最奇特的行為舉止有哪些吧！

文章網址:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/expressenglish/2012/03/120305_ee_eccentric.shtml

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Do you have an eccentric friend?

Here's what people in London said:

Pres: Do you have an eccentric friend?

Woman 1: Yes, eccentric… I've got an eccentric friend who's got tattoos absolutely everywhere, even on his feet!

Woman 2: We've got a friend called Claire…

Pres: What would you say she's like?

Woman 2: She's quite eccentric, with the way she is sometimes and the way she dresses, actually. She's quite over the top.

Woman 3: Yeah!

Woman 4: No, they are all rather straight-laced. Like myself, boring, dull and we conform so wefit in.

Let’s dig in!

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During the interview, most people respond that they do have eccentric friends. One of them said that she has a friend with tattoos all over his body, even on his feet. Another said that one of her friends dresses up off the norm. They are both talking about the appearance of their eccentric friends that make them different from regular people.

The last respondent talked about personality. She thought that she is a boring person. That means, she thinks eccentric people are usually the ones that act and live differently from the others. They may also try something that people do not usually do. For example, they might travel around Taiwan on feet or they may try to survive in the forest just to test out their own capability as human being.

Eccentric people are not equal to strange people. Sometimes, being eccentric could mean that you have talents other people do not have. No matter what, we should still respect each human being without any assumption or differentiation as there are many genius in our history who were labeled as eccentric people.