開心樂園

一

Teacher：We all know that beat causes an object to expand(膨脹) and cold causes it to contract(收縮，縮小). Now，can anyone give me a good example(例子)?

老師：我們都知道熱脹冷縮的道理。現在，誰給我舉個例子？

John：Well，in the summer the days are long，and in the winter the days are short.

約翰：嗯，在夏天天都長，在冬天天都短。

二

Mother: Did you eat all the cookies， Tom?

媽媽：湯姆，你把餅干都吃光了？

Tom: Oh， mum， I didn't touch one.

湯姆：哦，媽媽，我一個沒碰過。

Mother: That's strange. There's only one left.

媽媽：這就奇怪了，現在就剩下一個了。

Tom: That's the one I didn't touch.

湯姆：那個就是我沒碰過的。

三

“Boy， why have you got cotton-wool in your ear? Is it infected?”

“孩子，你為什么用棉花塞住耳朵？它感染了嗎？”

“No， sir， but you said yesterday that everything you told me went in one ear and out the other， so I am trying to stop it.”

“沒有，老師。可是你昨天說你告訴我的知識都是一個耳朵進，一個耳朵出，所以我要把它堵在里面。”

四

“I'm sorry，Madam，but I shall have to charge you twenty dollars for pulling your boy's tooth.”

“對不起，夫人，為您孩子拔牙我要收取20美元。”

“Twenty dollars! Why，I understand you to say that you charged only four dollars for such work？”

“20美元！為什么？不是說好只要4美元的嗎？”

“Yes，but this youngester yelled so terribly that he scared four other patients out of the office.”

“是的，但是您的孩子大喊大叫，把另外四個病人嚇跑了。”

五

“Tom， I hear you've been fighting with one of those boys next door and have given him a black eye.”

“湯姆，聽說你一直在和隔壁家的一個小男孩兒打架，還把他的眼睛打成黑眼圈了。”

“Yeah. You see， they are twins and I want some way to tell them apart.”

“對呀，他們是雙胞胎，我想找個辦法把他們區分開。”