One night before Christmas a woman had a lovely dream about a beautiful necklace.
When she woke up, she told her husband, "I just dreamt that you gave me a pearl necklace for Christmas. What do you think it could mean?"
"You'll find out on Christmas Day." he said with a knowing smile.
On Christmas Day, the man gave his delighted wife a beautifully wrapped package.
Excitedly, she opened it, only to find a book entitled "The Meaning of Dreams".
圣诞节前的一个夜晚，一个女人做了个有关美丽项链的可爱的梦。
当她醒来，她对她丈夫说：“我刚梦到你圣诞节给了我一条珍珠项链。你说那是什么含义呢？”。
“到圣诞节那天你就会知道了。”他带着一个会意的微笑说。
圣诞节那天，男人给了他欣喜的妻子一个包装漂亮的包裹。
她兴奋地打开，发现只是一本书名为《梦的解析》的书。
2 “孩子”的复数形式/The plural Form of "Child"
Teacher: What is the plural of man, Tom?
Tom: Men.
Teacher: Good. And the plural of child?
Tom: Twins.
老师：汤姆，“男人”这个词的复数形式是什么?
汤姆：男人们。
老师：答得好。那“孩子”的复数形式呢?
汤姆：双胞胎。
3 医院要怎么走/How to Get to the hospital
An absent-minded person was standing in the middle of a busy intersection where a policeman was directing traffic, and he kept bugging the policeman because he was confused.
"Excuse me, Officer! Can you tell me how to get to the hospital?"
The officer was very busy and said, "Just stand here and you'll get there!"
A child aged seven or eight ran hastily to the police station and told a policeman, "Please come quickly! A man is at my house beating up my father. He is dying!" The policemen therefore rushed to the scene with the child. They indeed saw two men fighting with one another. The policeman said, "Which one is your father?"
The child answered, "I also do not know who is my father, that's why they are fighting."
Jack told his wife, Helen, that he wanted to spend his vacation where he had never been before.
Helen said, “How about the kitchen?”
杰克对他的妻子海伦说，他想去以前从没到过的地方度假。
海伦说：“去厨房怎么样？”
6 让鸡活着吧/Let the chicken live
I wanted to make my mark as the new food-service officer at a recruit training center. The menu was loaded with red meat, so I devised a new one to reduce cholesterol. I substituted chicken for beef, and awaited comments from the suggestion box.
The first one summed up the recruits' feelings. It read simply, ″Let the chicken live.″
