Dress accordingly
My colleagues and I recently received this e-mail from the facilities department: “Due to construction, your office may be either cooler or warmer than usual on Tuesday. Dress accordingly.”
翻譯：
看情況穿衣
我和同事收到了來自設(shè)備部的這封電郵：“因?yàn)榛ǖ脑?，在本周二，你的辦公室的溫度要不比平時(shí)熱些或要不會(huì)冷些。請(qǐng)穿衣時(shí)注意作相應(yīng)的調(diào)整”。
Banned Movie
I was preparing to teach a college course on the history of movie censorship and went to the library to take out films that had been censored. “Do you have any banned movies in your collection?” I asked the librarian.
“Oh yes,” she answered. “We have some really good ones. What would you like: Tommy Dorsey? Glenn Miller?”
翻譯：
禁播電影
當(dāng)時(shí)，我正在給一門在禁播電影歷史方面的大學(xué)課程備課，來跑到圖書館去拿些禁播電影?！澳銈冇袥]有收藏了一些禁播電影？” 我問圖書館管理員。 “噢，有的” 她回答?！拔覀冇行┖懿诲e(cuò)的。 你是要Tommy Dorsey的還是要Glenn Miller的”
Can pilots fly
I worked in the biology department at Buffalo State College in New York. The Great Lakes Laboratory, also stationed at the college, employed a licensed boat captain to man its research vessel. It was common knowledge that the captain couldn‘t swim. When newcomers learned of this, they would often approach him about it. “Is it true?” one of them asked incredulously. “You, a boat captain, can‘t swim?”
”No, I can‘t!” he replied. “Can pilots fly?”
翻譯：
——飛行員就會(huì)飛嗎？
我在紐約州立大學(xué)水牛分校的的生物系工作。 大湖實(shí)驗(yàn)室同時(shí)也設(shè)在這家大學(xué)，并聘請(qǐng)了專業(yè)的持照船長(zhǎng)來駕駛實(shí)驗(yàn)室的研究用船。 按常識(shí)，船長(zhǎng)是必須不會(huì)游泳的。 當(dāng)一批新員工來到并得知這個(gè)事情后，他們經(jīng)常走到那船長(zhǎng)問個(gè)明白?！斑@是真的嗎？”一次，一個(gè)新員工懷疑地問，“你，一個(gè)船長(zhǎng)，不會(huì)游泳？”“不會(huì)，我不會(huì)游泳”，船長(zhǎng)回答說，“飛行員就會(huì)飛嗎？”
Annual performance review
My good friend is more aggressive at work than she realizes. After she had her annual performance review, I asked, “How did it go?”
“They had written that I was overbearing,” she replied with a shrug. “I made them take it off.”
翻譯：
年度績(jī)效評(píng)審
我的好朋友并沒有意識(shí)到她在工作上是如何的咄咄逼人！ 當(dāng)《年度績(jī)效評(píng)審》拿到手后，我問她，“評(píng)審報(bào)告怎么寫的？”
“他們寫的是，我‘負(fù)擔(dān)過重’”，她聳聳肩回答說，“（看來）是我主動(dòng)讓他們給我減壓了”。
