關於英文笑話短文及翻譯

　　同一個冷笑話，你也笑不了幾次;為什麼同一件事，你總是為它痛苦不止呢?小編精心收集了，供大家欣賞學習!

　　：他們很忙

　　One day, the phone rang, and a little boy answered.“ May I speak to your parents? ”“ They'rebusy. ”“ Oh. Is anybody else there? ”“ The police. ”“ Can I speak to them? ”“ They're busy. ”“Oh. Is anybody else there? ”“ The firemen. ”“ Can I speak to them? ”“ They're busy. ”“ So let meget this straight -- your parents, the police, and the firemen are there, but they're all busy?What are they doing? ”“ Looking for me. ”

　　電話鈴響了，小男孩接了電話。“請你父母聽電話好嗎?”“他們很忙。”“噢，那家裡還有其他人嗎?”“還有警察。”“我可以和他們說話嗎?”“他們很忙。”“那還有其他人嗎?”“還有消防員。”“我可以和他們說話嗎?”“他們也很忙。”“請直接告訴我——你的父母、警察和消防員都在你家，但他們都很忙，他們到底在幹什麼?”“在找我。”

　　：我怎麼把口香糖取出來

　　Distributing chewing gum to the passengers, the stewardess explained it was to keep their earsfrom popping. When the plane landed, one of the passengers rushed up to her and said, "I'mmeeting my wife right away. How do I get the gum out from my ears?"

　　當空中小姐給乘客們發口香糖的時候，她解釋說口香糖有助於他們防止耳鳴。飛機著陸後，一位乘客跑到這位空中小姐面前，說道：“ 我馬上就要見到我妻子了。我怎麼才能把口香糖從耳朵裡面取出來呢?”

　　：游泳者

　　The teacher told the class the story of a man who swam a river three times beforebreakfast.Johnny laughed."Do you doubt that a good swimmer could do that?" asked theteacher."No, sir," answered Johnny, "but I wonder why he did not swim it four times and getback to the side where his clothes were."

　　老師給同學們講了一個小故事，說有一個人早飯前要在河裡游泳，橫渡三趟。約翰尼笑了。老師問道：“你不相信一個游泳很好的人可以做到麼?”約翰尼回答說：“不是的，先生，我是不明白他為什麼不遊四次，好回到他放衣服的那邊。”

　　：你的鐘準嗎?

　　Dan was the doorman of a club in a big city. Everyday, thousands of people passed his door,and a lot of them stopped and asked him, "What's the time, please?"

　　丹在一個大城市的某個俱樂部當守門人。每天都有數千人經過他的門口，而且許多人都會停下來問他:“請問現在幾點?”

　　After a few months, Dan said to himself, "I'm not going to answer all those stupid people anymore. I'm going to buy a big clock and put it upon the wall here." Then he did so.

　　幾個月後，丹想:“我不想再回答這些蠢人提出的問題了，我要去買一隻大鐘，把它掛在這兒的牆上。”於是他買了一隻鍾，把它掛在了牆上。

　　"Now people aren't going to stop and ask me the time," he thought happily. But after that, a lotof people stopped, looked at the clock and then asked Dan, "Is that clock right?"

　　“現在人們總不會再停下來問我時間了。”他高興地想。可是打那以後，每天仍有許多人停下來，看看鐘，然後問丹:“這鐘準嗎?”

　　：what's puberty

　　One evening, in the midst of dinner preparation, our 10-year-old daughter asked, "Mommy, what's puberty?" My wife was rushed at the moment, so she suggested that Peggy look up the word in the dictionary, after which they could talk about it.

　　一天晚上，在準備晚飯的時候，我們十歲的女兒問：“媽媽，什麼是青春期?”我的妻子此時正忙得不亦樂乎，所以她建議佩吉到字典上查這個詞，然後她們可以再討論它。

　　A few minutes later, Peggy returned. Her mother asked what the dictionary had said.

　　幾分鐘以後，佩吉回來了。她媽媽問字典上怎麼說。

　　"Puberty means," announced Peggy, "the earliest age at which a girl is able to bear children."

　　“青春期的意思是，”佩吉宣佈：“一個女孩能忍受孩子的最早年齡。”

　　"What do you think of that?" my wife asked.

　　“你怎麼想呢?”我妻子問。

　　"I'm not sure," Peggy relied. "I've always been able to bear children. It's adults I can't bear.".

　　“我不知道，”佩吉回答。“我總能忍受孩子。讓我忍受不了的是大人。

　　Note: bear children: 生孩子。bear 一詞也可作“忍受”講。