Hot Air Balloon 热气球 A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. 有个人驾着热气球,却发现自己迷路了。他降低高度后,发现下面有个人。 He lowers the ba...
Who's Got Brains? 谁有脑子? In the hospital, where their family member lay gravely ill, the relatives gathered in the waiting room. Finally, the doctor came in looking tired and somber. 家属全部聚集在医院的等候室,守着他们病重...
Good Excuse 好借口 There was a middle-aged man who bought a Mercedes convertible 2000. 有个中年男子买了一辆奔驰2000敞篷车。 He took off down the road, flooring it up to 80 mph and enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair...
The Best Thing That Could Ever Happen 最棒的事 Three old men were sitting around and talking. 三个老头坐在一起聊天。 The 80-year-old remarked, The best thing that could happen to me would just to be able to have a good pee. 八十岁的老...
Amazing Pet 令人惊讶的宠物 A man goes into a pet shop and tells the owner that he wants to buy a pet that can do everyting. The shop owner suggests a faithful dog. 有个人走进一家宠物店,跟老板说要买一只万能宠物。店老板...
Good Fortune, Bad Fortune 好运和霉运 A frog goes to have his fortune told. 有只青蛙跑去算命。 The fortuneteller looks at his little webbed palm and says, 算命师看着他小小的有蹼手掌说道: Aha! You're about to meet a beaut...
A New Look from Borrowed Time By Ralph Richmond Just ten years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor with a stethoscope. Yes, he said, there is a lesion in the left, upper lobe. You have a moderately advanced case I listened, stunned, as he contin...
I Wish I Could believe by C. Day Lewis The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intesity. Those two lines of Yeats for me sum up the matter as it stands today when the very currency of belief seems debased. I was brought u...
Life, free to soar by Wayne B.Lynn One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing. As the strong...
Chain of Love How do you account for your remarkable accomplishment in life? Queen Victoria of England asked Helen Keller. How do you explain the fact that even though you were both blind and deaf, you were able to accomplish so much? Ms. Keller's an...