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
ant-
ante-dated
AP-G
assignment of radio frequency
ball pressure test
bastard phuisn'e
be broke to the wide
beechlike
black silk skirt
Boeing 747
brera
brings on
bromeliad, bromelia
bureaucratic sabotage
Burst Dimming
C of E
causimomancy
caustification method
cavaco
celestially
centrosymmetric crystal
Clostridium feseri
coextend
coffein
croose
curtelasse
Dallemand
data to evaluate monetary policy
depicts
depreciation schedule
derivative securities
dicantrops
draw towards
dugout canoe
earthliness
editeur
elbatul
ethmoidal cellules
extended display processor instruction set
far infrared photoconductivity
first tooth
flat examining board
full aduance
granite chippings
harpist
heall
heavy current disconnecting switches
hellenic republics
hog breeder
horse traders
IDA (International Development Association)
ingroup favoritism
island survey
jet humidifier
juvenile type
Labrador ducks
law of corresponding speed
lucrative tartet
mang
mat-forming treatment
matronship
measuring viewfinder
Meix-devant-Virton
mel
mine surveying
moviegoer
mutually-recursive definition
Nodi lymphatici cavales laterales
non minimum phase system
oil-pressure valve
oyster-cap fungus
parse of a sentential form
Pedicularis monbeigiana
picture tone
pieces delivered to machine
piston pin hole cap
promote
proper trial
pulse concentration
quotient map
reinforcing pull rod
saxagliptin
separator temperature
slave emancipation
spline bushing
sports writer
steerable motor system
step function transient response
study tours
tapalpite
thalassophyte
thereover
two-speed hysteresis synchronous motor
un English
valrico
vapo(u)r barrier
venture in
voyseys
Warragamba Res.
washing equipment
wear reducing value of lubricant
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