心不在焉的教授
A notoriously absent-minded professor was one dayobserved walking along the street with one footcontinually in the gutter, the other on the pavement.
有一位教授,因心不在焉而無人不曉。有一天,人們看見他在馬路上走,一只腳一直踏在路邊的排水溝里,另一只腳踩在人行道上。
A student meeting him said: "Good evening,professor. What's the matter?"
一個學生碰見他,問道:“晚上好,教授。您怎么了?”
"Well," answered the professor, "I was all right when I left home, but now I don't know what'sthe matter with me. I've been limping for the last half-hour."
“啊,”教授回答說,“我離開家的時候還挺好的,可是現在我不知道出了什么毛病。我已經一瘸一拐走了半個小時了。”