sty21篇英语幽默笑话小故事带生词解释

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, Iowa, minister was matching coins with a

member

of

his

congregation

for

a

cup of coffee. When

asked

if

that

didn't constitute gambling, the minister replied,

method of determining just who is going to commit an act of charity

（仅

仅是决定由谁来做一件善事的一种科 学方法）

Iowa

]

n.

衣阿华

[

美国州名

]

minister

n.

部长，公使，牧师

congregation

n.

集合在一起的群众

a member of his congregation

一位教友

constitute

vt.

构成

gamble

赌博

scientific

.

科学的

determine

vt.

决定

commit

vt.

犯

(

错误等

)

charity

n.

救济金；

[ pl.]

慈善团体；宽容

Philosopher Bertrand Russell(

罗素

), asked if he was willing to die for

his belief, replied:

philosopher

n.

哲学家

willing

愿意的

belief

.

信仰

5.

A

newspaper

organized

a

contest

for

the

best

answer

to

the

question:

a

fire

broke

out

in

the

Louvre

(

卢浮宫

)

,

and

if

you

could

only save one painting, which one would you carry out?

The winning reply was:

organize

vt.

组织

contest

n.

比赛；辩驳

e The Great Lion Hunter

A small village was troubled by a man-eating

lion. So its leaders

sent a message to the great hunter, Jonesie, to come and kill the beast.

For several nights the hunter lay

（躺）

in wait for the lion, but it never

appeared. Finally, he told the village chief to kill a cow and give him its

hide

（兽皮）

. Draping

盖上

the skin over his shoulders, he went to the

pasture

牧草地，牧场

to wait for the lion

pasture

In

the

middle

of

the

night,

the

villagers

woke

to

the

sound

of

blood-curdling

shrieks

coming

from

the

pasture.

As

they

carefully

approached, they saw the hunter on the ground, groaning in pain. There

was

no

sign

of

the

lion.

（

curdle

v.

< br>使凝结

shriek

vi.

尖叫

approach

v.

靠近

groan

v.

呻吟）

lion!

idiots

let the

bull

loose?

howl

[haul]

vi.

／哀号

bull

[bul]

n.

公牛

idiot

n.

白痴，

傻子，笨蛋

r Predict

A film crew was on location deep in the desert. One day an old

Indian went up to the director and said,

it rained.

A

week

later,

the

Indian

went

up

to

the

director

and

said,

Indian

is

incredible,

said

the

director.

He

told

his secretary

to

hire the Indian to predict the weather.

However,

after

several

successful

predictions,

the

old

Indian

didn't

show up for two weeks.

Finally

the

director

sent

for

him.

have

to

shoot

a

big

scene

tomorrow,

weather be like?

The

Indian

shrugged

his

shoulders.

know,

he

said.

is

broken.

c

rew

n.

全体工作人员

location

n.

位置，场所；外景拍摄地

director

主管，导演

hail

]n.

雹

hailstorm

雹暴

incredible

]a.

不可信的；不可思议的，惊人的

show up

暴露，露面

shrug

v.

／

n.

耸肩

8.I Am Acting Like a Lady

One

day

when

women's

dresses

were

on

sale

at

the

FarEast

Department Store, a dignified middle-aged man decided to get his wife

a piece. But he soon found himself being battered by frantic women.

He

stood

it

as

long

as

he

could;

then,

with

head

lowered

and

arms

flailing, he plowed through the crowed.

ou

there!

challenged

a

thrill

voice.

you

act

like

a

gentleman?

he

said,

have

been

acting

like

a

gentleman

for

an

hour.

From now on, I am acting like a lady.

I Am Acting Like a Lady

我要表现得象位女士

the FarEast Department Store

远东百货公司

on sale

减价

dignified

a.

有尊严的

batter

v.

连续猛击

frantic

a.

发疯似的

he soon found himself being battered by frantic women.

没过多久，他发现自己已被疯狂的女人冲得踉踉跄跄。

as long as

只要

flail

vi.

敲击

plow

n.

犁

v.

犁，耕

thrill

n.

兴奋

使

)

兴奋

a thrill voice

尖叫

9.A Soldier's Brilliant Idea

Mr. Robinson had to travel somewhere on business, and as he was

in a hurry, he decided to go by air. He

liked sitting beside a window

when

he was flying, so when he got on to the plane, he

looked for a

window seat. He found all of them had already been taken except for

one.

There

was

a

soldier

sitting

in

the

seat

beside

this

one,

and

Mr.

Robinson was surprised that he had not taken the one by the window;

but, anyhow, he at once went towards it.

When he reached it, however, he saw that there was a notice on it.

It was written in ink and said,

（保留）

for proper

load balance

（装载平衡）

, thank you.

an unusual notice in a plane before, but he thought that the plane must

be

carrying

something

particularly

heavy

in

it,

so

he

walked

on

and

found another empty seat, not beside a window, to sit in.

Two or three people tried to sit in the window seat beside the soldier,

but they

also read the notice and went on, when the plane was nearly

full, a very beautiful girl hurried into the plane. The soldier, who was

watching the passengers coming in, quickly took the notice off the seat

beside himself and in this way succeeded in having the company of the

girl during the whole trip.

为保持装载平衡，特预设该位置，谢谢合作

do you never phone me?

Mrs Harris lives in a small village. Her husband is dead, but she

has one son. He is twenty-one and his name is Geoff. He worked in the

shop in the village and lived with his mother, but then he got work in a

town and went and lived there. Its name was Greensea. It was quite a

long way from his mother's village, and she was not happy about this,

but

Geoff

said,

isn't

any

good

work

for

me

in

the

country,

Mother, and I can get a lot of money in Greensea and send you some

every week.

Mrs Harris was very angry last Sunday. She got in a train and went to

her son's house in Greensea. Then she said to him,

never phone me?

Geoff laughed.

First and My Last

When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned

to fly it. He soon became very good and made his plane do all kinds of

tricks.

George had a friend. His name was Mark. One day George offered

to

take

Mark

up

in

his

plane.

Mark

thought,

travelled

in

a

big

plane several times, but I've never been in a small one, so I'll go.

They

went

up,

and

George

flew

around

for

half

an

hour

and

did

all

kinds of tricks in the air.

When

they

came

down

again,

Mark

was

very

glad

to

be

back

safely,

and

he

said

to

his

friend

in

a

shaking

voice,

George,

thank you very much for those two trips in your plane.

Gerogy was very surprised and said,

es, my first and my last,

trick

[trik]n.

诡计；戏法、特技

Discovery

A hillbilly was visiting the big city for the first time. Entering an