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| 发表日期：2007-05-28 15:40 |
发表人：
汤静怡(tangjy)
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连接：
有趣的英语故事(谢瑾) |
内容：
1. A French Traveler
A Frenchman was once traveling in England. He could speak English quite well but not perfectly. For one thing, his vocabulary was not large.
One day, he was having a meal in a small country hotel and wanted to order some eggs. But he couldn't remember the word for eggs.
Suddenly, through the window, he saw a rooster walking in the yard. He immediately asked the waiter what the bird was called in English.
The waiter told him that it was called a rooster.
The Frenchman then asked what the rooster's wife was called.
The waiter told him that she was called a hen.
The Frenchman then asked what the hen's children were called.
The waiter told him that they were chickens.
The Frenchman then asked what the chickens were called before they were born.
The waiter told him they were called eggs.
"Fine!" said the Frenchman. "Please bring me two eggs and a cup of coffee."
l•perfectly 熟练地
2. vocabulary 个人所使用的词汇量 (集合名词，单数概念.)
3. rooster 公鸡(美国英语，同cock.)
4•bird 此处泛指禽类。
点评 这位法国人说的英语实在不敢恭维;但他能利用极之有限的几个单词，解脱了困境，其急智与机巧令人叹服。
2. A Smart Boy
William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, was born in a small town. As a young boy, he was very quiet and shy. In fact, he was so quiet that many people thought he was stupid.
"It's a funny thing," William's mother said to him one day, "I know that you are a smart boy, but sometimes you let people think you are not so smart. I wonder why?"
The people of the town liked to play tricks on this boy who they thought was so stupid.
"Here, William," one of them would say. "Here is a nickel, and here is a dime. Which one do you want?"
William always chose the nickel, and all the people would laugh at him.
Finally, his mother took him aside and said to him, “William, why do you always choose the nickel instead of the dime? Don't you know that a dime is worth more than a nickel?"
"Certainly I know it," William answered slowly, "but if I choose the dime, then people won't play the trick on me any more. Then I won't get any more nickels."
注释
1. It's a funny thing. 这真逗。
2•play tricks on 跟……开玩笑，戏弄
3•nickel 五美分硬币
4•dime 十美分硬币
5•not...any more 不再
点评 有的成年人常以为儿童年幼无知，喜欢作弄他们，殊不知自己被小孩作弄了还蒙在鼓里。
3. But I Missed Again
Peter Judd joined the army when he was eighteen, and for several months he was taught how to be a good soldier. He did quite well in everything except shooting. One day he and his friends were practising their shootings, and all of them were doing quite well except Peter. After he had shot at the target nine times and had not hit it once, the officer who was trying to teach the young soldiers to shoot said, "You're quite hopeless. Peter! Don't waste your last bullet too! Go behind that wall and shoot yourself with it!"
Peter felt ashamed?. He went behind the wall, and a few seconds later the officer and the other young soldiers heard the sound of a shot.
"Heavens!" the officer said, "Has that silly man really shot himself?"
He ran behind the wall anxiously, but Peter was all right. "I'm sorry, sir." he said, "but I missed again. "
注释
l•were practising their shooting 正在练习射击
2•shot at瞄准(shot的原形动词是shoot，shot是过去分词.)
3.felt ashamed 感到羞愧
4•missed again 又没打中
点评 前九次他均未射小靶子，幸亏其射击技术差到极点，第十次才没有射中自己。这次恐怕教官不会埋怨他了吧。
4. Getting Lost
A couple from another country was once visiting Miami. They wanted to take a walk and to see the city, but they were afraid they might get lost. They did not speak any English.
After they left their hotel, they went to the first street corner and looked at the names of the two streets. Then they carefully copied the two names into their notebook, they thought that this would help them find their way back if they got lost.
They walked for hours through the city, and suddenly they realized that they were lost. They found a police officer and asked for help, but the officer didn't speak their native language.
After an hour they found a person who could help them. She was an interpreter who spoke both their native language and English. They explained that they didn't know the name of their hotel, but they knew which corner it was on. They showed the interpreter what they had copied into their notebook, and the interpreter began to laugh.
The words which they had so carefully copied were Stop and One Way.
注释
l•a couple 一对夫妇。注意a couple后面用的谓语动词是单数形式。
2•Miami 迈阿密(美国Florida州东南部的一城市)
3•get lost 迷路
4•find their way back 找到回去的路
5•native language 本国语
6•Stop 禁止通行
7•One Way 单行道
点评 这对夫妇特地抄下的原来是普普通通的路标，并非他们以为已万无一失地记下之街道名。
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