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
3'-triiodothyronine
akts
Alvkarleby
application generator
Aquirel
Batverse
bias correction
breeches
burst pacing
buzz up
cardamines
catbon tetrachloride
clear away
clint
coils in umbilical cord
common carotid
cryotumbling
disk antenna
downscaler
edge break
european informatics network
expansion coefficiency
ferric vanadate
final concentration system
flavory
flute of drill
fore course
freight vehicle
front face area
genus Hamamelidoxylon
gluco-aurantio-obtusin
go no-go test
grand salami
granular dyes
Hammarskjold
herpes zoster keratitis
high energy electron diffraction
home minister
into the discard
isobutyric
juglandifolia
just passing through
keare
Konbu-dake
Kronecker, Leopold
Lade symptom
lens array
lobstering
madwomen
magistralities
magnetic field weakening ratio
magnetic viscosity
magneto-acoustic coupling
metzgeria consanguinea schiffn.
middle-jiao governing digestion
North Walsham
of one's own choice
oithona robusta
oxidized metal
pentose-phosphate pathway
peremptory day
peripheral system interface channel
plique
posting medium
preternaturalness
psia
ragamuffins
ralphed
reactance variation method
reduction of drying shrinkage
reductivism
reflectance photometer
replacement tooth
rotating phasor
Royal Courts of Justice
Rubeshibe
sacaline
San Remo Oil Agreement
section hopper
sign comparator
silk croise
sillimanite refractory
slurry preforming
small-angle boundaries
soon-come
stockwhips
submarine fan valley
subsumptive
suppurative marginal gingivitis
system service request
tablefork
taskmistresses
to meet a meeting
trimetrogon photograph
trithiosulfo
tryptophane synthetase
tube bundle shroud
velocity control knob
wappentake
windeyer
wing-mounted engine
working space, working storage