趣味英语小故事

趣味英语小故事

：变相收费

you charge me money for a cup of coffee.It will be wonderful if you serve me coffee free of charge today.

Waiter:“Yeah,you can have a free coffee.But we will charge your money for the seat and the cup 。

顾客：“每天你都会收我喝咖啡的钱，要是今天咖啡免费呐就太完美了”

服务员：但是我们会向你收位子占用费和使用杯子的费用。”

：孩子和父亲

A little kid fell in love with another little kid, a school mate.

Sometimes the kids think they fall in love when they have

a crush on someone else in the class, wh en they’re eight

or ten years old or something like that. So the eight-year-old

kid came back home and asked his father, “Father, is it

expensive to be married?” And the father said, “Yes, son,

it is very expensive.” So the son asked, “How much does it

cost?” And the father said, “I don’t know, son. I’m still paying.”

有个小孩爱上了另一个小孩，对方是学校的同学。八岁或十岁左右的孩子有时会迷恋

班上某个人，然后就以为自己恋爱了。因此这个八岁的小孩回家问他爸爸：「爸爸，结婚

很花钱吗?」爸爸说：「是啊，儿子，非常花钱。」儿子又问：「要花多少钱呢?」爸爸说：「我不知道，儿子，我到现在还一直在付钱啊!」

：汤姆的票

Tom is a little boy, and he is only seven years old. Once he goes to a cinema. It is the first time for him to do that. He buys a ticket and goes in. But after two or three minutes he comes

out, and buys the second ticket and goes in again. After a few minutes

he comes out again and buys the third ticket. Two or three minutes after that he comes out and asks for another ticket.

But a girl asks him,“Why do you buy so many tickets? How many friends

do you meet?” “No, I have no friends here, but a big woman alwa ys stops me

at the door and cuts up my ticket.”

汤姆是个小孩，他才7岁。当他去电影院的时候。那时他第一次去。他买了张票进去了。但没过两三分钟他就出来了，然后买了第二张票又进去了。几分钟后他又出来买了第

三张票。接着两三分钟后他又出来买票。一个女的问她，“你为什么要买那么多票啊? 你

见到了几个朋友?”“没有，我里面没朋友，但是每当我进门的时候一位大的女人老把我

的票给剪了”

：老板和鹦鹉

There was a guy who went into a shop to buy a parrot. There werethree parrots in the shop. One was $5,000; another one, $10,000; and the third one, $30,000. The customer asked the owner, “How

come this guy is $5,000? That’s so expensive for this kindof parrot.” The owner said, “Because I have trained him and he can talk.” So the

customer asked him, “How about this guy? What can he

do that makes him so expensive?” The owner said, “Well, apart from talking, he can also do some amusing actions,like dancing and so on. Th at’s why he’s so expensive.” Then the customer said,

“How about the third one? What canhe do that makes him so expensive?” The owner of the shopsaid, “I don’t know. Normally, I have never heard him talk, nor dance, nor whistle, nor sing, nothing

at all! But the other two call him ‘The Boss.’”

老板最大，有个人到一间商店买鹦鹉。店里有三只鹦鹉，其中一只卖五千元，另一只

卖一万元，还有一只卖三万元。顾客问老板：「为什么这只要卖五千元?这个价钱对这种

鹦鹉来说太贵了!」老板说：「因为我有训练他讲话。」顾客又问：「那这只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖这么贵?」老板说：「他除了会说话之外，还会表演一些有趣的动作，好比

说跳舞等等，所以才卖这么贵。」顾客接着又问：「那第三只呢?他会做什么?为什么要卖

这么贵?」老板说：「我不知道。我从没听过他讲话、吹口哨或唱歌，也没看过他跳舞，

什么都没有!不过另外两只叫他：『老板!』」

：A Silly Man

Fred was going to school. When he passed a park, he saw a man sawing a big branch from a tree. The man was on a ladder and the ladder was against the big branch he was sawing. “Hi, it is

dangerous.” Fred shouted. “After you cut off the branch, you will fall,