时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:英语笑话(MP3+文本)


英语课

【生词预览】

ad广告,saddle马鞍,birdle缰绳,inadvertently粗心大意地,comma逗号,Erroneously错误地



【笑话原文】



What's wrong with your horse?



After his beloved horse died, a man wanted to place an ad in the newspaper like this: Horse saddle and bridle for $50.



Inadvertently the paper added a comma to the ad, which read instead: Horse, saddle and bridle for $50.



Immediately someone responded to the ad, “That's an awfully cheap price for a horse, "said the caller, “What's wrong with your horse?”



“Well, he is dead, " replied the man who placed the erroneously typed ad.



【中文译文】

马有什么毛病吗?

一个人衷爱的马死了,他打算在报纸上刊登一则广告:50元卖马鞍和马缰绳。无意中报纸在广告语中加了个逗号,读起来变成:50元卖马,马鞍和马缰绳。



马上就有人询问这则广告,这马的价格真是太便宜了,询问者说,马有什么毛病吗?哦,它是死的,撰写这条广告的人回答道。



【词汇讲解】

1.beloved 所钟爱的。 She was beloved of all who knew her. 认识她的人都喜欢她。



2.ad 广告,是advertisement的缩写,口语中通常都用ad来代替advertisement。



3.inadvertently粗心大意地。词根是advertent注意的,而加上前缀in-后就表示反义“粗心的”的意思了。



4.add…to 给…加上…。常用的表达还有ad up to,是“合计达到…”的意思,例如:What do all the arguments add up to ?所有的论据归结起来说明

了什么?



5.comma,逗号。回顾一下英语中标点的说法:full stop句号;quotation marks引号;question mark问号;colon冒号



6.erroneously错误地。形容词是erroneous,例如:receive an erroneous impression得到错误的印象;erroneous assumptions错误的假设。

 



学英语单词
a stroke of good luck
abudefduf saxatiliss
acroagnosis
adepithelial cell
agrotechnological
andreozzi
asparate
asphericities
aspic oil
attalis
Baer's membranae
best quadratic unbiased predictor
blood volume expander
brief-code
Bronze Star Medal
Bunkeflo
C.P.A.
cartridge disk drive
central nucleus of embryo sac
chug-a-lugging
closed pulmonary tuberculosis
common rafter
contreve
Copy directory
corner judge
Cothias
cotton-spinning
cudraflavones
cutting oxygen
default drawing
delivery mistake
diesel fuel system
dimethane sulfonoxybutane
doghouse enclosure
dust-bowls
Embundo
employee fringe benefit
encephalization
Europan
ferrini
Fimbristylis tristachya
flexible electrode
floating-caisson gate
flying level
forming quality
gaseous waste arising
genus Lonchocarpus
good conditions for soil moisture
H film
hardiments
Hayahino-mine
illegal immigrant
isostatic pressing formed graphite
Kenyanizes
line-end lock
macrotoid
mahi-mahi
MDSO
mechanical monochromater
merphyllin
message procedure
nonbuyers
northford
Okgwa
Ostium pharyngeum tubae auditoriae
Ottonian
overhead camshaft
Pandy's test
paradog
partly filled tank
pendulous device
pensionable amount
poison with
pussy's-paw
quartett
Ranney oil-mining system
read-only subpool
recurrent fold
relative of the same rank
rubber friction draft gear
self-deportation
semi transparent
side gradient
sodium phenylethylhydantoin
spauldings
subserous myoma of uterus
Sympal
telebright
TEPN
The answer is in the affirmative.
the pride of the desert
unaspis aei
unoperated position
unutilized capacity
unwild
urban anthropology
vacuum ultraviolet spectrometry
valene
W Virginis stars
wild cavy
work properly