时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:英语杂谈


英语课

Whether we find a joke funny or not

largely depends on where we have been

brought up. The sense of humour is

mysteriously bound up with national

characteristics. A Frenchman, for in-

stance, might find it hard to laugh at a

Russian joke. In the same way, a Russian

might fail to see anything amusing in a

joke which would make an Englishman

laugh to tears.


Most funny stories are based on comic

situations. In spite of national differences,

certain funny situations have a universal

appeal. No matter where you live, you

would find it difficult not to laugh at, say,

Charlie Chaplin's early films. However, a

new type of humour, which stems largely from America,

has recently come into

fashion. It is cal1ed' sick humour '.

Comedians 1 base their jokes on tragic 2 situations

like violent death or serious accidents.

Many people find this sort of joke dis-

tasteful. The following example of 'sick humour'

will enable you to judge for

yourself.


A man who had broken his right leg was taken

to hospital a few weeks before

Christmas. From the moment he arrived there,

he kept on pestering 3 his doctor

to tell him when he would be able to go home.

He dreaded 4 having to spend

Christmas in hospital.

Though the doctor did his best, the patient's recovery

was slow.

On Christmas day, the man still had his right leg in plaster.

He spent

a miserable 5 day in bed thinking of all the fun he was missing.

The following day,

however, the doctor consoled him by telling him that his

chances of being able

to leave hospital in time for New Year celebrations were good.

The man took

heart and, sure enough, on New Year's Eve he was able to hobble

along to a

party. To compensate 6 for his unpleasant experiences in hospital,

the man drank

a little more than was good for him. In the process,

he enjoyed himself thoroughly 7

and kept telling everybody how much he hated hospitals.

He was stilI mumbling 8

something about hospitals at the end of the party when

he slipped on a piece of

ice and broke his left leg.


我们觉得一则笑话是否好笑,很大程度取决于我们是在哪儿长大的。幽默感与民族有着神秘莫测的联系。譬如,法国人听完一则俄国笑话可能很难发笑。同样的道理,一则可以令英国人笑出泪来的笑话,俄国人听了可能觉得没有什么可笑之处。

大部分令人发笑的故事都是根据喜剧情节编写的。尽管民族不同,有些滑稽的情节却能产生普遍的效果。比如说,不管你生活在哪里,你看查理.卓别林的早期电影很难不发笑。然而,近来一种新式幽默流行了起来,这种幽默主要来自美国。它被叫作“病态幽默”。喜剧演员根据悲剧情节诸如暴死,重大事故等来编造笑话。许多人认为这种笑话是低级庸俗的。下面是个“病态幽默”的实例,你可据此自己作出判断。

圣诞节前几周,某人摔断了右腿被送进医院。从他进医院那一刻时,他就缠住医生,让医生告诉他什么时候能回家。他十分害怕在医院过圣诞。尽管医生竭力医治,但病人恢复缓慢。圣诞节那天,他的右腿还上着石膏,他在床上郁郁不乐地躺了一天,想着他错过的种种欢乐。然而,第二天,医生安慰他说,出院欢度新年的可能性还是很大的,那人听后振作了精神。果然,除夕时他可以一瘸一拐地去参加晚会了。为了补偿住院这一段不愉快的经历,那人喝得稍许多了一点。在晚会上他尽情娱乐,一再告诉大家他是多么讨厌医院。晚会结束时,他嘴里还在嘟哝着医院的事,突然踩到一块冰上滑倒了,摔断了左腿。


 



n.喜剧演员,丑角( comedian的名词复数 )
  • The voice was rich, lordly, Harvardish, like all the boring radio comedians'imitations. 声音浑厚、威严,俨然是哈佛出身的气派,就跟无线电里所有的滑稽演员叫人已经听腻的模仿完全一样。 来自辞典例句
  • He distracted them by joking and imitating movie and radio comedians. 他用开玩笑的方法或者模仿电影及广播中的滑稽演员来对付他们。 来自辞典例句
adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的
  • The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
  • Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。
使烦恼,纠缠( pester的现在分词 )
  • He's always pestering me to help him with his homework. 他总是泡蘑菇要我帮他做作业。
  • I'm telling you once and for all, if you don't stop pestering me you'll be sorry. 我这是最后一次警告你。如果你不停止纠缠我,你将来会后悔的。
adj.令人畏惧的;害怕的v.害怕,恐惧,担心( dread的过去式和过去分词)
  • The dreaded moment had finally arrived. 可怕的时刻终于来到了。
  • He dreaded having to spend Christmas in hospital. 他害怕非得在医院过圣诞节不可。 来自《用法词典》
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
vt.补偿,赔偿;酬报 vi.弥补;补偿;抵消
  • She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence. 她利用她漂亮的外表来弥补智力的不足。
  • Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health. 一个人失去了键康是不可弥补的。
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
含糊地说某事,叽咕,咕哝( mumble的现在分词 )
  • I could hear him mumbling to himself. 我听到他在喃喃自语。
  • He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg. 宴会结束时,他仍在咕哝着医院里的事。说着说着,他在一块冰上滑倒,跌断了左腿。
学英语单词
acid proteases
aerial cable line
air handling equipment
ambient-temperature compensation
assenter
autoinhibiting
automatic chute
beat sb hollow
boron p-tolyl difluoride
buttterworthing
calson
canacids
capsuler
carrier suppression system
cast urea-formaldehyde plastic
cattaro (kotor)
celadon with brown mottles
ckii
classlessly
conical net
conjugate depth
consolidated slow test
constant-volume thermometer
currentest
determination of patentability
digital data transmission system
directrix of conic
El Jadida, Wilaya
El Saucejo
electro-therapeutic display of blunt needle
eohippus
Ethatab
flappier
free from disease
fruit gardening
fuel mineral
geometric solution
glacier buttercup
Glycerol-1-phosphatase
goksel
governance
Green Line
Haemopis sanguisuga
half-tone information
Hardyan
hay varieties
hip-cat
Homochloreyclizine
intensity of wave pressure
interpretatio
knowledge engineer
Languas speciosa
leave function
lightbox
loading berm
magazine tool holder
main reasons
Make directory
Mary Of Orange
masked off
moment of precession
oil proof test
oneironaut
oversend
painted frog
Pardew
pass fish eyes for pearls
Peflate
physical system time
PID tuning
production control function
Prosiphneus
Putyatina, Ostrov
Pyrogelite
raisin pudding
reche
recovery characteristic
Robinson's disease
RQLIQ
Ruoti
scale error card
scavia
second-hand witness
semicarbazide hydrochloride
small hole electrospark grinding
static classes
statistiquement
stirrest
Styphnolobium japonicum
sulphide barrier
synchondroses petrooccipitalis
Temangan
threepeated
tittler
unemploy
velocity-focussing mass-spectrograph
virtual pair
visualisings
wide-angle photograph
zipless