1. Milly:”What are you doing?”

Molly:”I‘m writing a letter to myself.”

Milly:”What does it say?”

Molly:”How do I know? I won‘t get it till tomorrow.”

翻譯:

米麗：“你在做什么？”

茉莉：“我在給自己寫信。”

米麗：“信上說什么？”

茉莉：“我怎么知道？我到明天才會收到。”

2. “Is ink so expensive, daddy?”

“Why, no, what makes you think so?”

“Well. Mother seems quite disturbed because I spilled some ink on the carpet.”

翻譯:

“墨水很貴嗎，爸爸？”

“啊，不貴，你為什么這樣想？”

“啊。我把一些墨水灑到了地毯上，媽媽好像很難過。”

3. A mother was talking to her little boy. “Now, Billy, you shouldn‘t be selfish with your toys. I‘ve told you to let your younger brother play with them half the time.”

“That‘s what I‘ve been doing, ” said Billy. “I take the sled doing downhill, and he takes it going up.”

翻譯:

一位母親在和她的小男孩說話。“聽著，比利，你對自己的玩具不應該自私。我已經對你說過要讓弟弟玩一半時間。”

“我一直都是這樣做的，”比利說。“我把雪橇滑下坡，他再拿上來。”

4. “My father made a scarecrow so good that crows would not come within three miles of his farm,” a boy boasted.

“That‘s nothing,” his friend said. “My uncle made a scarecrow so good that the crows brought back all the corn they had stolen the previous years.”

翻譯:

一個男孩夸口說：“我爸爸做的稻草人非常好，所以他的農場3英里內都沒有烏鴉。”

“那有什么，”他的朋友說：“我叔叔做的稻草人非常棒，烏鴉把去年偷的所有糧食都送了回來。”

5. A small girl was telling her friend all about her first time to the zoo.

“And I saw the elephants,” she said, “and what do you think they were doing? Picking up peanuts with their vacuums!”

翻譯:

一小女孩正把她第一次去動物園的感受告訴她的一位朋友。

“我看見了大象，”她說，“你知道它們在干什么嗎？正在用真空吸塵器撿花生呢。”