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Suck Chocolate

A guy goes to visit his grandmother and he brings his friend with him. While he's talking to his grandmother, his friend starts eating the peanuts on the coffee table, and finishes them off. As they're leaving, his friend says to his grandmother, "Thanks for the peanut." She says, "Yeah, since I lost my dentures I can only suck the chocolate off'em."

[注释]
suck v.吮
denture n.假牙
 
Yewwwwww, disgusting!
 
It doesn't matter how old the joke is. I believe many other people have heard this too, not only the English version, but the Chinese one. The key thing is those who haven't or those who don't know the annotated words can benefit from the learning process.
 
以实际行动支持,跟一个:
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The Professor’s Lunch

An absent-minded professor was lecturing on anatomy. “To show you more clearly what I mean, I have here a parcel with a dissected frog. I want you to examine it very carefully.”

The professor unwrapped the parcel and saw that it contained two sandwiches and a hardboiled egg. Astonished, the professor said: “I was sure I had eaten my lunch, but where is the frog?”

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我们可以学的是
absent-minded adj.心不在焉的
anatomy n.解剖学
dissected adj.切开的,分割的
astonished 惊讶的
 
tootoo,我俩的名字有点儿谐音。
 
最初由 DoDo 发布
tootoo,我俩的名字有点儿谐音。

既然有缘,再跟一个:
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How Do You Know Your Computer Is Male?

My new data-entry assistant could often be heard offering encouragement to her computer. “You can do it, big guy!” She would say. “Good boy! Nice job, fellow.”

After her one particularly lengthy pep talk. I asked, “How do you know your computer’s male?”She said, “Because you have to tell it what to do.”

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lengthy adj.冗长的
pep talk n.鼓舞士气的讲话
 
我也跟一个。

A boy was taking care of his baby sister while his parents went to town shopping. He decided to go fishing so he took her with him.

"I'll never do that again!" he told his mother that evening. "I didn't catch a thing!"

"Oh, next time I'm sure she'll be quiet and not scare that fish away," his mother said.

The boy said, "It wasn't that. She ate all the bait."


bait n. 鱼饵
 
How about a real-life one, I'm not sure where it originated from.

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is White, the best golfer is Black, the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war."
 
最初由 人淡如菊 发布
How about a real-life one, I'm not sure where it originated from.

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is White, the best golfer is Black, the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, France is accusing the US of arrogance and Germany doesn't want to go to war."
Sounds really funny. Up!
 
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