英語笑話:一個小花招

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clerk售貨員，tape卷尺，plasma 等離子

笑話原文】

A Small Trick

All I wanted was to pay for some batteries, but none of the clerks in the electronics store seemed interested in helping me. I got an idea, and pulled a tape measure out of my pocket. I stepped over to one of the giant plasma screen TVs and started to measure it. Faster than you can say high definition, a young man came running over.

“May I help you?” he asked breathlessly.

“Yes,” I said. “I’d like to buy these batteries.”

中文譯文】

一個小花招

我只是要付錢買電池。但是電器店里的職員似乎沒有一個對此感興趣。我有一了一個主意。我從口袋里掏出一條軟尺，走到一個巨大的等離子電視機前，開始量尺寸。一個年輕人迅速跑過來，比說完“高清晰度”這四個字的速度還快。

他問：“有什么能幫您的呢?”他上氣不接下氣地說。

“有啊”我說，“我想買些電池。”

詞匯講解】

1.clerk售貨員。總結(jié)一下clerk所代表的各種職位：(旅館)接待員;辦事員、文書;書記員;(議會中的)高級職員;教堂執(zhí)事、見習(xí)修道士、神智人員;學(xué)者。

2.tape卷尺。tape還可以做動詞，有“用膠布固定”的意思：tape a note to the door用膠布把一張字條粘貼在門上。Tie her and tape her up.把她綁起來，用膠布封住她的嘴。

3.step over走過，邁過。Step over the water, kids.孩子們，邁水過來。Will you step over to my office after work?下班后到我辦公室來一趟好嗎?

4.giant特大的。a giant photograph巨幅照片。也可以作名詞，指“巨人”：a literary giant大文豪;an oil giant大石油公司

5. measure測量/權(quán)衡/調(diào)節(jié)/斟酌：measure one’s words斟酌詞句;measure one’s foe估量自己的敵人。也可作名詞，是“尺寸”的意思：one’s waist measure腰圍尺寸。

6.breathless氣喘吁吁的。Running up stairs very fast made him breathless.飛快跑上樓梯使他上氣不接下氣。“沉悶的、令人窒息的”：a breathless evening無風(fēng)而沉悶的夜晚;breathless air in the attic閣樓里令人窒息的空氣