第205期:撓動你腳心的故事 最後一隻雞
今天分享的是“最後一隻雞”的英文故事。
重點詞彙
butcher n.屠夫，屠戶;
flip vt.輕彈，輕擊; 按（開關）; 快速翻轉; 急揮;
scale n.天平；
faintly adv. 微弱地；模糊地；虛弱地
hesitate vi.猶豫，躊躇;不願;支吾;停頓
This joke is about a man who has a clever, but not very honest idea. See how this gets him into trouble in the end. Enjoy!
(1) A butcher, who had had a particularly good day, proudly (2) flipped his last chicken on (3) a scale and weighed it. "That will be (4) 6.35 euros," he told the customer.
"That's a good price, but it really is a little too small," said the woman. "Don't you have anything larger?" Hesitating, but thinking fast, the butcher returned the chicken to the refrigerator, paused a moment, then took it out again. "This one," he said (5) faintly, " will be 6.65 euros."
The woman paused for a moment, then made her decision. (6) "I know what," she said, "I'll take both of them!"
(1) a man who cuts meat and sells it
(2) threw up onto the counter
(3) a small tool that shows how heavy something is
(4) you should read this as "six pounds, thirty-five pence"
(5) softly
(6) "I know what I want to do"
最後一隻雞
這個笑話講的是一個有小聰明，但不太誠實想法的人。 看看這是怎麼讓他陷入困境的。好好享受吧！
一個屠夫，有一天他很開心，他非常自豪的把最後一隻雞翻到秤上稱了一下。“這是6.35英鎊，”他告訴客戶。
“價錢不錯，但實在有點太小了，”那個女人說。沒有大一點的嗎？”屠夫猶豫了一下，大腦飛速運轉，把肌肉放回冰箱，停了一會兒，然後又把它拿了出來。“這個，”他淡淡地說，“5英鎊，6.65英鎊。”
那女人停了一會兒，然後做了決定。 “我知道我想要什麼了，”她說，“我兩個都要！”
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