酷漫
2016-01-10 12:15:40
漢語世界(The World of Chinese) 2016年3期
Friends:Wouldnt it be nice if our children got married in the future?
Husband: No way! My daughter is only one, and your son is two; when shes ten, your son would be 20. Thats disgusting!
Wife: No, sweetie, your math is wrong. Our daughter will be two years old next year, and they will be the same age by then.
This joke is adapted from XiaolinGuangji (《笑林廣記》, Extensive Gleaning from the Forests of Laughter ), a joke book published in 1781 that epitomized Chinese humor.
cross word
across
1. The highest organ of power in China
4. Agree on a three-point decree; lay some ground rules
6. The small machine that keeps you connected, can be addictive
7. Secret code, password
10. Trifling skill of a scribe; literary
skill of small order
13. Only the toughest grass can ???????????????????????? stand strong winds; adversity is
the best testing ground for strength
down
2. What Edward Snowden leaked
3. Approximately, by estimation
5. Classic Yunnan cuisine involving
chopped black pickles and two
other ingredients
8. Winter worm, summer grass
9. An idiom for proficiency in a? particular field
11. Famous poet of the Southern
Song Dynasty, from whose
famous lines the name “Baidu”
was taken
12. Ignorant
