胡主席也禮尚往來，通過口譯員interpreter說”Because you, Bill Gates，are a friend of China。I am a friend of Microsoft”。嘩，胡主席對比爾直呼其名…oh，let’s get down to business。我們馬來西亞有好些人常說”This book is my one”，”That car is our one”，one來one去，暈。正確說法是”This book is mine”，”That car is ours”。Mine和ours是配角的

possessive pronoun，主角是my和our。所以”This is my money”也可說成’This money is mine”，”These are their DVDs”也可說”These DVDs are theirs”。中國的朋友可說China’s friend，中國的一位朋友不說China’s one friend 或China’s a friend ，而是說a friend of China，我的一個朋友a friend of mine，她那個前男朋友that ex-boyfriend of hers。微軟的朋友是Microsoft’s friend，微軟的一位朋友必須說a friend of Microsoft，也可說a friend of Microsoft’s ，帶出”雙重所有格double possessive”味儿，好濃耶!比如說”He is a boyfriend of Mary’s。She got a bunch, you know”。不濃嗎?

最后想說interpreter是口譯員，translator是翻譯員，一個用口一個用手，實有天淵之別。