1.Teacher: Glenn, how do you spell “crocodile”?
Glenn: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L
Teacher: No, that‘s wrong.
Glenn: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
翻譯:
老師:格林,你怎么拼寫“鱷魚”?
格林:K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L
老師:不對,錯了。
格林:也許吧,但是你問我、我怎么拼的嘛!
2.Teacher: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
John: You told me to do it without using tables.
翻譯:
老師:約翰,你干嘛趴在地上做乘法題啊?
約翰:你不是說不準用桌子嗎……(table有兩個意思:乘法表和桌子)
3.Teacher: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn‘t have ten years ago.
Winnie: Me!
翻譯:
老師:溫妮,說出一樣“十年前我們沒有、現在很重要”的東西。
溫妮:我!
4.Teacher: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
Donald: H I J K L M N O.
Teacher: What are you talking about?
Donald: Yesterday you said it‘s H to O.
翻譯:
老師:唐納,水的化學公式是什么?
唐納:H I J K L M N O。
老師:你在說什么呀?
唐納:昨天你說的啊:“從H到O”(H2O,小鬼理解成H to O了)
5.Teacher: Maria, go to the map and find North America.
Maria: Here it is.
Teacher: Correct. Now class, who discovered America?
Class: Maria.
翻譯:
老師:瑪利亞,去地圖上把北美洲指出來。
瑪利亞:在這里。
老師:沒錯。現在、同學們,是誰發現了美洲呀?
全班:瑪利亞