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　　趣味英語小故事：布告欄

　　My secretary began to post unusual news articles,cartoons and pictures of faraway lands on our office bulletin board. Although she changed the items on a regular basis，no one mentioned her efforts.Eventually she put up a notice stating that she would give one dollar to the first person who read the announcement and informed her about it. Two weeks later, she received her first acknowledgement，a handwritten reply left on her desk:"I just wanted you to know how much I enjoy your interesting bulletin board. The Cleaning Lady.”

　　我的秘書開始在我們辦公室的布告欄里張貼一些奇持的新聞、卡通和風(fēng)景畫等。按時更換，但從未有人提到過她所做出的努力。終于她貼出了一張告示說，誰要是第一個看到她貼的通知，就可以告訴她，那個人就能從她那里得到一美元。兩周后，她接到了第一個正式的通知。在她的桌上留著一張字條:“我只想讓你知道，我非常喜歡看那有趣的布告欄。清潔工。”

　　趣味英語小故事：輕而易舉

　　Stepping from my kitchen into the garage, I accidentally locked myself out of the house. When I tried to persuade my 18-month-old son，Taylor, to open the door, none of my tactics worked. Finally，I walked around the house to check for an open window. To my amazement，I found the front door open and Taylor standing there with a salesman.

　　出了廚房我便走進了車庫，不留神把門鎖給撞上了，把我自己鎖在了門外。我那18個月的兒子泰勒在屋里。于走，我在外邊千方百計地想讓他幫我開門，結(jié)果均告失敗。最后，我圍著房子想找個開著的窗子。令我吃驚的是，前門開著，我的兒子站在門口正與一個推銷員在談話。

　　"I've been locked out for 20 minutes,"I said. "How did you get him to open the door?"

　　我對那推銷員說:“我被鎖在了外邊20多分鐘，你是怎樣讓他給你開門的”。

　　Looking puzzled，the man replied，“I rang the doorbell."

　　面帶驚奇的推銷員答說:“我只按了一下門鈴。”

　　趣味英語小故事：反應(yīng)

　　A motorist got caught in one of those new radar traps.He had been driving home one night when the automatic camera identified his car as exceeding the speed limit, Soon after，he received a ticket in the mail，plus a picture of this vehicle with the date and speed recorded on it.

　　一個飛車手被新的雷達測速儀捕獲。那是他在一天晚上超速駕車回家時，被自動照像機攝下了他的汽車。不久，他便收到了一個裝有罰款單的信封，里面裝有他汽車的照片、超速的日期和速度。

　　Duly impressed, he sent back the ticket, along with a photo of a 0 bill to pay the fine.

　　他對這種方式的印象極為深刻，于是寄回了那張罰款單，并附上了一張一百元美金的照片作為罰金。

　　趣味英語小故事：老年公民

　　My husband，Michael，a bus driver，was passing a deserted bus stop when one of his passengers called out that a woman wanted to get on. He pulled up to the curb and opened the doors.

　　我丈夫，麥克是個開大巴士的。一次當(dāng)他剛要開過一個無人上下車的車站時，一位乘客喊過有位老婦人要上車。麥克把車停靠在馬路邊，打開了車門。

　　After a minute，Michael saw an elderly woman with a cane crossing the street slowly. He waited patiently as she made her way to the bus and climbed the steps.While she was looking in her purse for her bus pass，he began to close the doors.”Wait a minute!”she snapped."My mother's coming.”

　　過了足有一分鐘，麥克才見到一位老太太拄著拐杖，慢騰騰地過著馬路朝車子走來。麥克襯心地等她來到汽車旁上著臺階。趁老太太打開錢包找月票的工夫，麥克欲關(guān)門，老婦人阻止道:“別真，我媽媽還在后面呢!”