英語笑話:像夫人們一樣的言行舉止
aristocratic貴族的， excess過度，impudent無禮的
【笑話原文】
Impudent Questions
A little girl from the East Side was invited to a garden party given by a very aristocratic lady to a group of little East-Siders. The little girl, as she drank her tea and ate her plum-cake on a velvet lawn under a white-blooming cherry tree, said to her hostess,“Does your husband drink?”
“Why-er-no, not to excess,” was the astonished reply.
“How much does he make?”
“He doesn't work,” said the lady. “He is a capitalist.”
“You keep out of debt, I hope?”
“Of course, child. What on earth do you mean by all these impudent questions?”
“Impudent?” said the little girl. “Why, Ma'am, Mother told me to be sure and behave like a lady, and when ladies call at our rooms they always question Mother like that.”
【中文譯文】
像夫人們一樣的言行舉止
一個(gè)住在城東貧民區(qū)的小女孩獲得邀請(qǐng)，參加一位貴婦人為城東貧民區(qū)的孩子們舉行的花園晚會(huì)。 在一棵開滿了白色小花兒的櫻桃樹下，小女孩坐在柔軟的草地上，一邊品嘗著她的茶和梅子蛋糕，一邊對(duì)貴婦人說：你的丈夫酗酒嗎? 呃，呃，不，他喝得不多。夫人一臉驚詫。 他掙多少錢? 他不工作，夫人回答說，他是個(gè)資本家。 我希望你們沒有負(fù)債吧? 當(dāng)然沒有，孩子。你問這么些無禮的問題到底是想說什么呢? 無禮?小女孩說，怎么會(huì)呢，夫人?媽媽要我的舉止一定要象夫人們一樣，當(dāng)她們到我們家做客的時(shí)候，她們總是那樣問我媽媽的。
【詞匯講解】
1. lawn草坪。 They are lying on a grassy lawn.他們躺在綠草如茵的草坪上。
2. excess過度。 She has an excess of anger.她愛過度地生氣。
3.capitalist資本家。 The capitalists amass great wealth by exploiting workers.資本家剝削工人而積累了巨額財(cái)富。
4.keep out of置身于…之外。
5. impudent無禮的。She’s tolerant toward those impudent colleagues. 她對(duì)那些無禮的同事采取容忍的態(tài)度。
