英文幽默笑话：新员工

 A New Employee 

　　Several weeks after a young man had been hired, he was called into the personnel¹ director's office. 

　　What is the meaning of this? the director asked. When you applied² for the job, you told us you had five years' experience. Now we discover this is the first job you ever held. 

　　Well, the young man said, in your advertisement you said you wanted somebody with imagination. 

　　一个年轻人在被雇用几个星期后，被叫到人事经理的办公室。 

　　这是什么意思？经理问，当你申请这份工作时，你告诉我们有五年工作经验，现在我们发现这其实是你的第一份工作。 

　　嗯，年轻人回答，你们的广告上说需要找一个有想象力的人嘛。

1 personnel   

n.[总称]人员，员工，人事部门

参考例句：

• The personnel are not happy to change these rules.全体工作人员对改变这些规定很不高兴。
• Personnel has lost my tax forms.人事部门把我的税收表格给弄丢了。

2 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。