If you speak with a foreign accent and not sure it hurts your career or job prospects, I have a good news for you.
如果你说话带有外国口音，但不确定这会影响你的职业生涯或就业前景，我有一个好消息要告诉你。
Except for the Queen, everyone speaks English with an accent, either one of the regional ones or foreign ones. These days it is no big deal.You do need to be careful if you misspronounce sounds completely.
除了女王，每个人说英语都有口音，不管是地方口音还是外国口音。如今这没什么大不了的。除非你的发音完全错误，你才需要小心。
For examples, Russians sometimes pronounce 'deal' as 'dill'. If you have a problem like that with the sound E, do not say"peace on you ", it may not go well..
例如，俄罗斯人有时会把deal读成dill。如果你对发音E有这样的问题，不要说“peace on you”，它可能不太好。
When I started as a new CTO in one of previous companies, within a week an employee came and said he does NOT want to work with Jews. I had heard all kinds of requests previously. Someone had wanted to bring his grandmother to Bring Your Daughter To Work day. Another had wanted to bring his 4-foot python snake to the office. But this one, about Jews, caught me off guard. There were a few long seconds where I was searching for a proper response. And then I realized - he is talking about a project Zeus, and he is mis-pronouncing Z. I asked you don't want work on project Zeus? He said, right, not on Jews.
当我在之前的一家公司担任新首席技术官时，不到一周就有一名员工来找我，说他不想和犹太人一起工作。我以前听到过各种各样的请求。有人想带他的祖母、带他的儿女来上班，也有人想把他的4英尺长的蟒蛇带到办公室。但是这一个，关于犹太人的，让我措手不及。我惊呆了有那么几秒钟的时间，在寻找合适的回答。然后我意识到，他说的可能是宙斯计划，他把z发错音了，我问：你不想参与宙斯计划?他说：对，不是针对犹太人。
Long ago, accents were indeed a problem when native speakers were not accustomed to foreign accents. Back then, I lived in North Carolina. It did not matter what the first sentence out of my mouthwas, the first sentence was never understood. I sometimes said, hello, my name is Micky Mouse.
很久以前，当以英语为母语的人不习惯外国口音时，口音确实是个问题。那时，我住在北卡罗来纳州。我嘴里说的第一句话是什么并不重要，第一句话从来就不被人理解。我有时说，你好，我的名字是米老鼠。
But these days it is great. If you speak with a strong accent like I do, it is like wearing glasses, makes you look even smarter.
但现在一切都很好。如果你像我一样说话带着浓重的口音，那就像戴眼镜一样，会让你看起来更聪明。
Accents are no longer a problem. Outside of work though, they say that the Russian accent is scary. So if you are like I am- 6'6'' tall and speak with Russian accent, do not ask strangers for directions in a dark street.
口音不再是问题。工作之余，他们说俄罗斯口音很可怕。所以，如果你和我一样——6英尺6英寸高，说话带有俄罗斯口音，不要在黑暗的街道上向陌生人问路。
But，You do need to be careful with taking expressions out of one language and into another. I learned the hard way.
然而，你确实需要小心把一种语言的表达变成另一种语言的表达。我为此曾丑态百出。
In Russian language Golden Shower means something really really good.
在俄语中，金色的雨意味着非常非常好的东西。
When I took my first job in an American company my English was full of holes.
当我在一家美国公司找到第一份工作时，我的英语漏洞百出。
I was invited with a group of other new hires to a breakfast with a 3rd line manager, a big boss. He went on for 10 minutes about great culture, benefits and opportunities, all good stuff. He then stopped to catch his breath. He asked for feedback looking right at me.
我和一群新员工被邀请去和一个第三线经理，一个大老板共进早餐。他花了10分钟谈论伟大的公司文化、好处和机会，所有这些都是好东西。然后他停下来喘口气，并盯着我寻求反馈意见。
I said that in my opinion the company is giving it's employees the golden shower.
我说：在我看来，公司是在给它的员工金雨（黄金雨---指妓女，男妓对嫖客脸上小便）。
The moment later I knew I said something terribly wrong. The manager turned red to the color of red tomato. Everyone else turned absolutely white. The manager mumbled something. He cut the breakfast short and left.
那一刻，我意识到我说错了什么。经理的脸涨红了，变成了红番茄的颜色。其他人都脸色煞白。经理咕哝了几句。他匆匆吃完早饭就走了。
An hour later when I got called into my immediate manager's office I knew what I had really said. I expected the worst.To my amazement, I found my manager and his manager in the convulsions of laughter. One of them was laughing so hard, he slipped out from his armchair.
一个小时后，当我被叫到直属经理的办公室时，我知道自己说了些什么。我做了最坏的打算。令我吃惊的是，我发现我的经理和他的经理都笑得前仰后合。其中一个笑得太厉害了，他溜了出去
Thus, I learned that I do not need to speak the Queen's English - to the the king of my own professional destiny.
因此，我知道在我自己的职业命运的国王面前，我并不需要使用女王般的语言对待它。
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