"Are we poisonous?" the young snake asked his mother.
"Yes, dear," she replied - "Why do you ask?"
"Cause I've just bitten my tongue! "
我刚咬破自己的舌头
“我们有毒吗?”一个年幼的蛇问它的母亲。
“是的,亲爱的,”她回答说,“你问这个干什么?”
“因为我刚刚咬破自己的舌头。”
It was rush hour and I was dashing to a train in New York City's Grand Central Terminal - As I neared the gate, a plump, middle-aged woman sprinted up from behind, lost her footing on the smooth marble floor and slid onto her back. Her momentum carried her close to my shoes. Before I could help her, however, she had scrambled up. Gaining her composure, she winked at me and said, "Do you always have beautiful women failing at your feet?"
Not long after an old Chinese woman came back to China from her visit to her daughter in the States, she went to a city bank to deposit the US dollars her daughter gave her. At the bank counter, the clerk checked each note carefully to see if the money was real. It made the old lady out of patience.
At last she could not hold any more, uttering. "Trust me, Sir, and trust the money. They are real US dollars. They are directly from America."
Mrs. Brown: Oh, my dear, I have lost my precious little dog!
Mrs. Smith: But you must put an advertisement in the papers!
Mrs. Brown: It's no use, my little dog can't read.
布朗夫人:哦,亲爱的,我把珍爱的小狗给丢了!
史密斯夫人:可是你该在报纸上登 广告 啊!
布朗夫人:没有用的,我的小狗不认识字。”
—Waiter, this lobster has only one claw.
-- I'm sorry, sir. It must have been in a fight.
-- Well, bring me the winner then.
-- 服务员, 这个龙虾只有一只爪。
-- 对不起,先生,这只肯定打过架了。
-- 哦, 那给我那个打赢的吧。
A bit of advice for those about to retire. If you are only 65, never move to a retirement community. Everybody else is n their 70s, 80s, or 90s. So when something has to be moved, lifted or loaded, they yell,"Get the kid."
a film crew was on location deep in the desert. one day an old indian went up to the director and said, "it will rain tomorrow." the next day it rained.
a week later, the indian went up to the director again and said, "there will be a storm tomorrow." the next day there was a storm.
一周以后,印度人又来了,他告诉导演说:“明天会有暴风雨。”果然,第二天有暴风雨。
"this indian is incredible," said the director. he told his secretary to hire the indian to predict the weather.
“这个印度人真神,”导演说。他告诉他的秘书去雇佣这个印度人来预测天气。
however, after several successful predictions, the old indian didn't show up for two weeks.
然而,几次预测天气成功之后,这个印度人连续两周没有露面。
finally the director sent for him. "i have to shoot an important scene tomorrow," said the director. "and i'm depending on you. what will the weather be like?"
the indian shrugged his shoulders. "i don't know," he said. "my radio is broken."
这个印度人耸了耸肩说道:“我不知道,我的收音机坏了。”
one day women's dresses were on sale at a department store. a dignified middle-aged man decided to pick a dress for his wife, but soon he found himself being battered by frantic women.
he stood it as long as he could; then, with head lowered and arms flailing, he plowed through the crowd.
他竭力地忍耐着。后来,他低下头,挥舞双臂,挤过人群。
"you there!" challenged a thrilling voice. "can't you act like a gentleman?"
“你干嘛?”有人尖声叫道,“你难道不能表现得像一位绅士吗?”
"listen," he said. "i have been acting like a gentleman for an hour. from now on, i am acting like a lady."
“听着,”他说。“我已经像绅士一样表现了一个小时了。从现在起,我要表现得像一位女士。”
a man is driving up a steep, narrow mountain road. a woman is driving down the same road. as they pass each other, the woman leans out of the window and yells "pig!!" the man immediately leans out of his window and replies, "witch(女巫)!!" they each continue on their way, and as the man rounds the next corner, he crashes into a pig in the middle of the road. if only men would listen.