看笑話學英語:Mental deficiency 智力缺陷

Mental deficiency 智力缺陷

英語笑話

Would you mind telling me, Doctor, Bob asked, "how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears completely normal? "

Nothing is easier, the doctor replied. "You ask him a simple question which everyone should answer with no trouble. If he hesitates , that puts you on the track. "

Well, What sort of question?

Well, you might ask him, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?'

Bob thought for a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh, "You wouldn't happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don't know much about history."

中文翻譯

“醫(yī)生，你能不能告訴我，”鮑勃問，“對于一個看上去很正常的人，你是怎樣判斷出他有智力缺陷的呢？”

“再沒有比這容易的了，”醫(yī)生回答，“問他一個簡單的問題，簡單到所有人都知道答案，如果他回答得不干脆，那你就知道是怎么回事了?！?/p>

“那要問什么樣的問題呢？”

“嗯，你可以這樣問，‘庫克船長環(huán)球旅行了三次，但是在其中一次的途中他去世了，是哪一次呢？’”

鮑勃想了一會兒，緊張地回答道，“你就不能問另外一個問題嗎？坦率地說，我對歷史了解得不是很多?！?/p>

詞匯點睛

detect [d??tekt] v. 發(fā)現(xiàn)

mental [?mentl] adj. 精神的，心理的，智力的

deficiency [d??f??ns?] n. 缺乏，不足

appear [??p??(r)] v. 出現(xiàn)，顯露

completely [k?m?pli?tli] adv. 完全地

normal [?n??ml] adj. 正常的，常態(tài)的

hesitate [?hez?te?t] v. 猶豫，躊躇

track [tr?k] n. 痕跡

confess [k?n?fes] v. 供認，承認

語法分析

1. You ask him a simple question which everyone should answer with no trouble. 問他一個簡單的問題，簡單到所有人都知道答案。

解析 　句子的主干是You ask him a simple question，which引導的定語從句修飾question。例如：The prosperity which had never appeared before took on in the countryside. 農(nóng)村出現(xiàn)了前所未有的繁榮。

口語實踐

A　Do you know who got the first place in the mid-term?

B　Of course it's Mark. He's always the ace.

A　Man, he's got a high IQ.

A　你知道這次期中考試誰得了第一嗎？

B　當然是馬克了，他總是最好的。

A　伙計，他的IQ很高啊。

★IQ 智商，是intelligence quotient的首字母縮寫。

A　you could say that his EQ is definitely not catching up with his IQ.

B　How could that happen?

A　你應該說他的EQ肯定趕不上他的IQ。

B　那怎么可能呢？

★EQ 情商，是emotional quotient的首字母縮寫。

★catch up with 趕上

A　People are keen on talking about the relations between IQ and EQ,but I only have a vague knowledge about them.

B　Yeah right. Most people think high IQ comes along with a high EQ. But it's not absolute.

A　人們都熱衷于談論IQ和EQ之間的關系，而我對它們只有模糊的認識。

B　確實，大多數(shù)人都認為高IQ總是伴隨著高EQ，但這并不是絕對的。

★be keen on 熱衷于

★vague [ve?g] adj. 含糊的，不明確的

★knowledge [?n?l?d?] n. 知道，了解

★come along with 和……一道

★absolute [??bs?lu?t] adj. 絕對的，完全的

A　She's the kind of person who's good at dealing with people but can't work out a simple math problem.

B　Don't give her a hard time. At least she's got a high EQ.

A　她是那種很會處理人際關系但是卻連簡單的數(shù)學題都做不出來的人。

B　別和她過不去了，至少她的EQ很高。

笑話文化解讀

如果你在街上遇到了一個神經(jīng)兮兮的人，你也許會低聲叨咕“這個人IQ有問題”。但你知道“IQ”的全稱嗎？“I”代表intelligence，意思是“智力”（a good ability to learn and understand），“Q”代表quotient，意思是“商”。我們學習算術的時候，碰到“a number which is the result when one number is divided by another”，那么這個number就是“商數(shù)”；如果你碰到一個神童，可能就會贊嘆道：He has a very high IQ.（他的智商很高。）

不知道為什么，外國人對“quotient（商數(shù)）”備加寵愛，和英語字母Q搭配的新詞兒不斷地粉墨登場。比如說“EQ”就是“Emotional Quotient”的縮寫，emotional是指“和情緒、情感有關的”。

據(jù)說在成功的因素中，“IQ”僅占20％，而“EQ”則占到了80％?！癊Q”涉及到人的character（性格）、personality（個性）、willpower（意志力）等情感上的因素。繼IQ、EQ之后，又有人提出了兩個CQ。一個是“創(chuàng)造力商數(shù)（Creation Quotient）”，創(chuàng)造力對人生前途的影響不亞于其他的Q。另一個是“魅力商數(shù)（Charisma Quotient）”，“charisma”意味著“超凡的魅力”（the special charm which cause a person to win the love of ordinary people）。