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Churchill and Bernard Shaw 丘吉尔和肖伯纳
2024-04-13Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II. He was a fat and short man. George Bernard Shaw was a famous writer. He was...
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Alexander the Great 亚历山大大帝
2023-12-05Landon had made an unsuccessful attempt at the recitation(背诵,朗诵) , and the doctor, somewhat nettled(刺激,惹恼) , said: Landon, you don't seem to be ge...
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Saving Lives 救人
2023-12-05At a pre-med university in St. Louis, we had to take a difficult class in physics. One day the professor was discussing a particularly complicated con...
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Ashamed Soldier 惭愧的士兵
2023-12-05Peter joined the army when he was eighteen, and for several months he was taught how to be a good soldier. He did quite well in everything except shoo...
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Response Ability 答问技巧
2023-12-05An Ogden, Iowa, minister was matching coins with a member of his congregation(集会) for a cup of coffee. When asked if that didn't constitute gambli...
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The Problem of Two Flounders 两个比目鱼问题
2023-12-05Simon was an inveterate(根深的) fisherman, well known for exaggerating the size of the one that got away. But there came a day when he actually caught tw...
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The Way to Keep Away Flies 驱蝇妙招
2023-12-05There was a customer who came and asked a waiter in a cafeteria: “Oh, tell me, Susan, how do you keep all the flies out of your coffee shop?“So she sa...
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The Best Stimulant 最佳兴奋剂
2023-12-05A patient said to his doctor, "Doc, please give me something that will stimulate me, excite me, and put me in a, very, very highly stimulated spi...
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Tightfisted Till the End 本性难移
2023-12-05When a very miserly(吝啬的) man nicknamed the "stingy ghost" died and went to hell, the Yama King reproached(责斥) him, saying, "You stingy ...
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One Big Happy Family 快乐大家庭
2023-12-05The warden of the prison felt sorry for one of his inmates because every weekend on Visitor’s Day, most of the prisoners had family members and ...