That‘s Creative

Being the office supervisor, I had to have a word with a new employee who never arrived at work on time. I explained that her tardiness was unacceptable and that other employees had noticed that she was walking in late every day. After listening to my complaints, she agreed that this was a problem and even offered a solution. “Is there another door I could use?”

翻譯：

——有創意

我是辦公室主管，有一次，我不得不跟一個從來不準時上班的新員工談了一次話。 我向她解釋說，她遲到的毛病是無法讓人接受的，而且其他員工已經注意到她每天上班都遲到。 聽了我的抱怨之后，她同意遲到是個問題，甚至還提供了一個解決方案。“有沒有別的門我可以走”？

 
Please speak English

I‘m a high school geometry teacher and I started one lesson on triangles by reading a theorem. “If an angle is an exterior angle of a triangle, then its measure is greater than the measure of either of its corresponding remote interior angles.”

　　I noticed that one student wasn‘t taking notes and asked him why. “Well,” he replied sincerely, “I‘m waiting until you start speaking English.”

 翻譯：

——請講英語

　我是一名高中幾何老師，一天要教三角形，我通過讀一個定理來開始這節課： “如果一個角是一個三角形的外角，它的度數比與它對應的不相鄰的2個遠內角中的任一個的度數都要大”。

　　這時，我發現一個學生沒有做筆記，于是問他為什么不做，“呃”，他真誠地回答，“我得等到你開始說英語時，我才開始做筆記”。

Get closer to the sun

Tourists ask a lot of questions as we travel between the Hawaiian Islands on my charter boat. Some people wanted to know, “Does the water go all the way around the island?” Another asked, “How much further until we‘re in the ocean?” But the one that made me want to jump overboard was, “Can you please take the boat closer to the sunset?”

 翻譯：

——離太陽近一點

我們的游艇在夏威夷群島間穿梭游玩時，游客們問了很多問題。 一些人想知道，“海島的四周都是水嗎？” 另一個會問，“還要走多遠我們才到達大海？” 但是，讓我聽到想跳海的一個問題是，“你能不能把船開到離日落近一點地方？”

Come in an envelope

Torrential rainstorms were knocking down power lines all over town. That meant, as a customer service rep for the electric company, I was dispatching repairmen right and left. When one lineman called a customer to get her exact address, he was told, “I‘m at Post Office Box 99.”

　　The weary lineman replied, “Ma‘am, I‘ll be coming to you in a truck, not an envelope.”

 翻譯：

——坐信封過來

暴雨正對我們鎮上的電線線路進行肆意摧殘。那意味著，我作為一名電力公司的客戶服務代表就得不停地向各處派出維修人員。當一個線路工給一個顧客打電話要確切地址時，他被告之，“我就在99號郵箱那里”。

　　已筋疲力盡的電線工回答，“女士，我是坐卡車來的，不是坐信封”。