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
adoptees' relatives method
adrenalise
alaph
alpha-form
appoint for
australian-borns
autographas
belt filler
biogenic ice nucleus
Brodick Bay
Bāmīān, Velāyat-e
carbonate hardness
chyliferous vessels
co-organizer
colour man
compression fatigue tester
congestion termination
congruent dissolution
cost consciousness
cyclical redundancy check (crc)
dawoud
DBEYR
deadly force
delphinoid
Denis, Saint
deoxyribonucleic acid photolyase
dibbling machine
drum lathe
endothermic transition
essedary
experimental psychology
extremely useful
fertman
fibrous sheath of tendon
fiduciary level
fisheries inspection boat
grand challenge
hanaiborchella juglandia
hand-held rock drill
hard bark
heat shields
heavy liquor pump
helsum
high-availabilities
high-strength flour
Hooke law
human mitotic chromosomes
internal control report
inverse telecine
Kakira
king rod
kleven
language swap
laser diode aging
length of stroke
liddel hart
live up to one's words
lock screw
maeasvi (thao)
magnetic tape cassette equipment
maximum draught
melitta
miroir
monocular hand level
most significant relationship
movable control
neoolivil
Neritopsis
non terminating decimal
occipitofrontalis
order Malvales
phase splitter
plan of management
pollutant emission
power save circuit
professional criminal
Protosteliomycetes
pulley tackle
quantitative strategic planning matrix
race culture
rc file
reflect compass
relational structure record
Rockwell hardness scale
scaremongers
serrated wrack
sparse vector
spinning frames
Steenvoorde
submedian
Surtsey
synoviopathy
system tape
taichou
tft modeling and circuit simulation
topend
tsadi
turdus chrysolaus chrysolaus
unoriginal
unsymmetrical oscillation
upper limit event
upper photic zone