雙語笑話（二）

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An Exact Number

A tourist was visiting New Mexico and was amazed at the dinosaur bones lying about.

“How old are these bones?”the tourist asked an elderly Native American， who served as a guide.

“Exactly one hundred million and three years old.”

“How can you be so sure?” inquired the tourist.

“Well，” replied the guide，“a geologist came by here and told me these bones were one hundred million years old， and that was exactly three years ago.”

Notes:

(1) New Mexico 新墨西哥（美國州名）

(2) be amazed at 對……感到驚詫

(3) dinosaur恐龍（已絕跡的巨大爬行動物）

一位游客在新墨西哥游覽。他對隨處可見的恐龍化石甚感驚奇。

“這些化石有多長的歷史？”游客問一個上了年紀的當地美國人。他是作向導的。

“整整十億零三年了?！?/p>

“你怎么這么肯定？”游客問道。

“哦，”向導回答道，“一個地質學家來過這兒，他告訴我說這些化石有十億年了，再加上那是整整三年前的事了?！?/p>

新老師

The New Teacher

George comes from school on the first of September.

“George， how did you like your new teacher?”asked his mother.

“I didn’t like her， Mother， because she said that three and three were six and then she said that two and four were six too……”

9月1日，喬治放學回到家里。

“喬治，你喜歡你們的新老師嗎？”媽媽問。

“媽媽，我不喜歡，因為她說3加3得6，可后來又說2加4也得6?！?/p>