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
abnormal discount
abnormal steel
ace of diamonds
added value tax
automatically operated inlet valve
bootes
by-walk
calcie
calcineurins
carriage lace (narrow fabric)
cash sending
cathartical
code type
common-anode amplifier
convex head
darneth
dielectric motor
digital rights
displacement of spleen
drill doctor
Ducting.
edge cover
empty vehicle
endopleural ridge
equivalent orbital
fair-handed
genug
gone commando
hakurks
head-lamps
high polar region
horse-gear
hour angle hyperbola
hydrostatic amplitude of swell
incident reporting system
incorret
indigoid dye
injection port
instated
Isalo, Massif de l'
kazin
Kharstan, Gora
Kinnevik
ladder
Laktaši
land earth station
limber space
massive object model
methylnicotinate
Minas Chan.
mirror pair
motor run capacitor
multi-compartment cell
NatuineBendrofumethiaide
Newburgh's test
no-fly lists
non return flap
nonintensive
nothoserphus partitus
packed jury
pepper-pot
per accident
peripheral function translator
petting zoo
pixelation ratio
polo-stick
polygrapher
primal scream
prog-rock
quarquenet
regenerative process
regiones digitales (manus)
relaparotomy
remove chrome with bacteria
resections
Rhododendron maguanense
rip-and-read
scatteraway
scoresheets
seed enterprise'
set in stone
set order
Shonguy
single pneumonia
sliding sleeve valve
snortingly
star search
step sampling
stern plate
stomping
stratolab
Taconic revolution
tube failure
unpope
urban spaces
urethrostenotome
valente
verocytotoxin
visual achromatic system
Wefensleben
yellowfever