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周末一笑:不用找了(轉載)

(2016-08-12 15:57:01) 下一個

1 不用找了/Keep the Change

One sweltering day, I was scooping ice cream into cones and told my four children they could "buy" a cone from me for a hug. Almost immediately, the kids lined up to make their purchases. The three youngest each gave me a quick hug, grabbed their cones and raced back outside. But when my teenage son at the end of the line finally got his turn to "buy" his ice cream, he gave me two hugs. "Keep the changes," he said with a smile.

有一天天氣悶熱，我把冰淇淋舀進錐筒，告訴我的四個小孩，他們可以從我這裏用擁抱“購買”一筒。幾乎馬上孩子們就排起了隊來購買。較小的三個孩子每人很快地抱了我一下，抓過冰淇淋筒就跑到外麵去了。但最終輪到排在隊尾已是青少年的大兒子來“買”冰淇淋時，他擁抱了我兩下。“不用找了，”他笑著說。

2 追星族/Starstruck

I have been starstruck since I was a little girl, so I was delighted and practically speechless not long ago when I spotted the actor Ernest Borgnine walking in my direction on New York's Fifth Avenue. "Why, you're Ernest Borgnine!" I managed to blurt out. "Yes," he said, nodding politely, "I know."

自從我是一個小女孩時就是個追星族，因此不久以前當我在紐約第五大街上認出演員歐內斯特·博格寧向我迎麵走過來時，我欣喜若狂，完全不知該說什麽好。“怎麽，你是厄內斯特.波格尼!”我想法迸出一句話來。“是的，”他很有禮貌地點了點頭，說道：“我知道。”

3 纏住不放/Persistence

Returning from a golf outing, my husband was greeted at the door by Sara, our four-year-old daughter.

"Daddy, who won the golf game? You or Uncle Richie?"

"Uncle Richie and I don't play golf to win," my husband hedged. "We just play to have fun."

Undaunted, Sara said, "Okay, Daddy, who had more fun?"

丈夫打完高爾夫球回來，我們四歲的女兒莎拉在門口迎了上去。

“爸爸，誰贏了高爾夫球比賽，是你還是裏奇叔叔？”

“我和裏奇叔叔打高爾夫球不是為贏，”丈夫推諉說。“我們打球隻是為了好玩而已。”

莎拉毫不氣餒，又問：“那麽，爸爸，誰覺得更好玩呢？”

4 款待/Treat

As a rookie in the Atlantic City, N.J., Police department, I was assigned a beat on the boardwalk. Hardly a day went by when I didn't come upon a child who had become separated from his parents.

One afternoon, I spotted a small boy standing alone, obviously lost. I tried to gain his confidence - I took him to the nearest ice-cream stand and bought him a cone. Time passed with no sign of the boy's parents, so the next step was to call for a patrol car to take him to headquarters. I told the small fry to stay put while I went to the call box. When I returned, he was nowhere in sight.

Within minutes, the car arrived, and one of the patrolmen asked me where the child was. I felt stupid; it's humiliating to say you've lost a lost child. But I told the officers what had happened and gave a description of the boy.

"What did you treat him?" asked one of the men.

"An ice-cream cone. Why?"

"Because," answered the officer, "that kid lives only a few blocks from here, and you've about the fifth rookie he's conned for a treat!"

我是新澤西州大西洋城警察局的一名新警察。我被指派巡邏一條海濱的路線，幾乎每天都能碰上與父母走散的孩子。

一天下午，我發現一個小孩獨自站在那裏，顯然是迷了路。我先是設法取得他的信任－我帶他到附近的冰淇淋攤給他買了一個蛋筒。過了很長時間，也沒看見他父母的影子，所以我就準備打電話叫輛巡邏車將他送回總部去。我告訴他站在那裏別動，我去電話亭打電話。當我回來時，卻發現他不知道到哪兒去了。

警車很快來了。一名警察問我小孩在哪裏。我感覺自己傻極了，說自己弄丟了一個迷路的小孩，該多丟人啊！但我還是告訴了警察們所發生的一切，並描述了一下小孩的長相。

“你請他吃了什麽？”一名警察問。

“一個冰淇淋蛋筒。怎麽啦？”

“因為，”那名警察說，“那個小孩住的地方離這兒隻隔幾個街區。而你大概是被騙給他買東西吃的第五個菜鳥了！”

5 耐性/Patience

Angler: You've been watching me for three hours now. Why don't you try yourself?

Onlooker: I haven't got the patience.

垂釣者：現在你已經盯著看了三個小時了，你幹嘛不自己親自釣呢？

旁觀者：我沒那耐性。

6 世界上最偉大的擊劍手/The World's Greatest Swordsman

At an exhibition of the world's best swordsman, the third-place fencer took the stage. A fly was released, and with an arc of his sword he cut the fly in half. The crowd cheered. Then the second-place man sliced a fly into quarters. A hush fell in anticipation of the world's greatest swordsman. His blade came down in a mighty arc - but the insect continued on its way! The crowd was aghast. The greatest swordsman had missed his target completely, yet he continued to smile.

"Why are you so happy?" someone yelled. "You missed!"

"Ah," replied the swordsman, "you weren't watching very carefully. The fly lives, yes - but he will never be a father."

在一場世界最佳擊劍手表演中，排名第三的擊劍手上場了。一隻蒼蠅放了出來，劍劃了一個弧，他將蒼蠅劈成了兩半。觀眾歡呼起來。緊接著排名第二的人將一隻蒼蠅切成了四半。現場一陣沉默，人們期盼著世界上最偉大的擊劍手出場。他的劍鋒以一個巨大的弧線劃了下來－－然而那隻昆蟲還在繼續飛行! 觀眾被驚呆了。最偉大的擊劍手完全錯過了他的目標，然而他還在微笑著。

“你為什麽這麽高興？”有人嚷道，“你沒擊中!”

“啊，”劍手答道，“你剛才沒有很仔細地看。蒼蠅還活著，是的－－但他永遠也做不成爸爸了。”

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