1. Tommy:”Are flies good to eat?”
Dad:”I don‘t think so. Why do you ask?”
Tommy:”There was one in your pie.”
汤米：“苍蝇好吃吗？”
爸爸：“我想不好吃。你为什么这样问？”
汤米：“刚才你的馅饼里面有一只。”
2. Betty:”I fell last night, unconscious for eight hours.”
Hetty:”How dreadful! Where did you fall?”
Betty:”I fell asleep.”
贝蒂：“我昨晚摔了一跤，昏迷了8个小时。”
赫蒂：“真可怕！你在哪里摔的？”
贝蒂：“我是在睡梦中。”
3. Mother:”Why were you kept after school today, Johnny?”
Johnny:”Teacher told us to write an essay on ‘The Result of Laziness‘, and I turned in an blank sheet of paper.”
妈妈：“今天放学后，你为什么要被留下来，约翰尼？”
约翰尼：“老师让我们写一篇作文《懒惰的后果》，我交了一张白纸。”
4. I was putting cream on my face when my little girl asked what I was doing. I explained that it was good for wrinkles.
“It‘s sure doing a great job, mommy,” she replied.”You are getting more of them.”
我向脸上抹面霜时，小女儿问我在干什么。我解释说这种面霜对皱纹有好处。
她回答说：“妈妈，它肯定很管用。你的皱纹越来越多了。”
5. One wet, windy weekend I was returning to Alaska, on a ferry, filled with visitors. I overheard a tourist ask a young boy,”Doesn‘t it ever stop raining
around here?”
“I don‘t know,” came the reply, “I‘m only seven years old.”
一个风雨交加的周末，我乘渡船回阿拉斯加州，船上挤满了游客。我听到一名游客问一个小男孩：“这里的雨从来没停过吗？”
“我不知道，”男孩回答说，“我才7岁。”
