单选题
"Thank you" means that you recognize that someone has done something for you. Thus we thank people all day
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even for the smallest, most
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things. If a waitress brings you a
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of coffee, you say "Thank you". When you
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your food and get your
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, you say "Thank you" to the
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. If someone gives you
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in the street, you say "Thank you". If someone
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you to dinner, you say "Yes, thank you, I"d
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to come." However, that"s more than
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. Excessive expressions of gratitude
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. Westerners extremely
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and gives a sense of
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thanks, a sense of formal or required Kowtowing (叩头) which does not
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gratitude but insincerity. For example, if your advisor spends a half-hour of his time
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you edit some letter you"ve just written, you will
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to say "Thank you, I really
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your time." But one or two phrases of that
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is enough. If you go on and on
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statements about his kindness, the person will feel not thanked but
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and will not be anxious to help you again.