Visual Training The squad（班，小队） were having visual training. One smart recruit（新兵，招募） was asked by the officer to count how many men composed a digging party in a distant field. The party was so faraway（遥远的，恍惚的...
Sunset Father: This is the sunset my daughter painted. She studied painting abroad, you know. Friend: Ah, that accounts for it! I never saw a sunset like that in this country. 日落 父亲：这幅《日落》是我女儿画的，你知道，她曾在...
When a man called a motel and asked how much they charged for a room, the clerk told him that the rates depend on room size and number of people. Do you take children? the man asked. No, sir, replied the clerk. Only cash and credit cards. 英文笑话...
The local high school has a policy that the parents must call the school if a student is to be absent for the day. Kelly deciding to skip school（逃学，旷课） and go to the mall（购物商场，林荫路） with her friends waited until her p...
I'm a bachelor Jack feell off his bicycle and got hurt. A beautiful young nurse asked him to fill forms. Jack finished them and gave them back.Anything else? The nurse asked. Yes,Jack thinks for a while and said,I'm a bachelor. 我是个单身汉 杰克骑车...
Mr. and Mrs. Taylor had a seven-year-old boy named Pat. Now Mrs. Taylor was expecting another child. Pat had seen babies in other people's houses and had not liked them very much, so he was not delighted about the news that there was soon going to b...
There was this preacher(n. 牧师，传教士) who was an avid(adj. 渴望的，热衷的) golfer. Every chance he could get, he could be found on the golf course swinging(v. 摇摆, 挥动) away. It was an obsession(n. 迷恋) . One Sunday was a picture perfect day f...
You will be pleased with me today, mother, said Dick to his mother, coming home from school. I saved on fares. I didn't go to school by bus, I ran all the way after it. Well, said his mother laughing, Next time you should run after a taxi, you will...
At the age of 16, Edely decided to leave home and join a theater company. His father was appalled, A son of mine on the stage? It's a disgrace! he wailed. What if the neighbors find out? I'll change my name, the comic-to-be volunteered. Change your...
We were gathered together, all ten of us, for our widowed mother's 80th birthday. The conversation was of early struggles, walking to work and saving up in clothing clubs, when my elder sister said, Of course, we were bound to be poor because we wer...
