“风流的男人”在英语是Don Juan，这是西班牙的人名，不过欧美人都常用来表示“风流”的人。到英美旅行时常听到的还是Casanovs或lady's man，但在英美的杂...
所谓pun，通常是指利用一个单词的两个含义，或者利用两个特定的单词，达到“一语双关”的目的。比如下面第一句话，其中的grave有两个含义，一个是“...
Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin? 为什么太阳能把头发晒浅，却能把皮肤晒黑？ Why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed? 为裁磁?吮兆抛炀筒荒苌辖...
有一块寓学于嘻的天地往往为英语自学者所忽视。 这块天地就是发表在英语刊物边边角角里的英语 绕口令、谜语和幽默。任何语言大致都有三个层 次：语...
Old Man And Donkey There was an old man, a boy and a donkey. They were going to town and it was decided that the boy should ride. As they went along they passed some people who thought that it was a s...
惠灵顿:一个新西兰男人以超过法定速度的两倍开车而被拘,他的理由是需要加大油门好让风吹干他的汽车。37岁的罗杰·丹尼尔以每小时120公里的速度在限速...
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1、Two doctors and an HMO manager die and line up together at the Pearly Gates. One doctor steps forward and tells St. Peter, "As a pediatric surgeon, I saved hundreds of children." St. Peter lets hi...
Be good for nothing A little boy says to his mother, "Mom, I'll be good for a dollar" The mother replies, "I shouldn't have to pay you to be good, you should be good all the time" The little boy says,...
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How to reject a man GG：Can I buy you a drink? MM：Actually I'd rather have the money. GG：Can I have your name? MM：Why? Don't you already have one? GG：I'm a photographer. I've been looking for...
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One night a hotel caught fire,and the people who were staying in it ran out in their night clothes. Two men stood outside and looked at the fire. "Before I came out," said one,"I ran into some of the...
Advice for "Kid" A bit of advice for those about to retire. If you are only 65, never move to a retirement community. Everybody else is n their 70s, 80s, or 90s. So when something has to be moved, lif...
Not long after an old Chinese woman came back to China from her visit to her daughter in the States, she went to a city bank to deposit the US dollars her daughter gave her. At the bank counter, the c...
