1.He Swore to Die

 
If you refuse to marry me, he swore, I shall die.

She refused him.

Sixty years later, he died.

翻譯：

他曾發(fā)誓要死

如果你不答應嫁給我，他發(fā)誓，我就要去死。

她拒絕了他。

六十年后，他死了。

2.Big Head

“All the kids make fun of me,” the boy cried to his mother, “They say I have a big head.”

“Don‘t listen to them,” his mother comforted him, “You have a beautiful head. Now stop crying and go to the store for ten pounds of potatoes.”

“Where‘s the shopping bag?”

“I haven‘t got one, use your hat.”

翻譯：

大腦袋

“所有的孩子都拿我開玩笑，”小男孩哭著跟媽媽說：“他們說我長了一個大腦袋。”

“別聽他們的，”他媽媽安慰說：“你的腦袋長得很漂亮。好了，別哭了，去商店買10磅土豆來。”

“購物袋在哪？”

“我沒有購物袋，就用你的帽子吧。”

 3.Difference

“I can always tell a graduate class from an undergraduate class,” observed the instructor in one of my graduate engineering courses at California State University in Los Angeles.

 “When I say, ‘Good afternoon,‘ the undergraduates respond, ‘Good afternoon.” But the graduate students just write it down.”

翻譯：

區(qū)別
“研究生班和本科生很容易就能區(qū)別開來，”在洛杉磯加利福利亞州立大學給我們研究生上工程學課的老師如此說。

“我說‘下午好’，本科生們回答說‘下午好’。研究生們則把我說的話記在筆記本上。”

4.Such a Long Dog

 
Once there was a blind. One day when he was walking, he stepped the head of the dog who was sleeping. The dog barked for a while. The blind man went on for miles, this time he stepped the other dog‘s tail, so this dog barked. The blind man had thought that it was the first dog, so he said in surprise, It‘s a wonder that the dog is so long.

翻譯：

如此長的狗
從前有個瞎子。一天，他正在行路時踩著了一只正在睡覺的狗的腦袋，狗汪汪汪地叫了一陣。這人又往前走，這回踩著的是另外一只狗的尾巴，狗又汪汪汪地叫起來。瞎子以為還是那條狗，驚詫地說：奇怪，這只狗可真夠長的。