英語笑話:馬有什么毛病嗎？

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ad廣告，saddle馬鞍，birdle韁繩，inadvertently粗心大意地，comma逗號，Erroneously錯誤地

【笑話原文】

What's wrong with your horse?

After his beloved horse died, a man wanted to place an ad in the newspaper like this: Horse saddle and bridle for $50.

Inadvertently the paper added a comma to the ad, which read instead: Horse, saddle and bridle for $50.

Immediately someone responded to the ad, “That's an awfully cheap price for a horse, "said the caller, “What's wrong with your horse?”

“Well, he is dead, " replied the man who placed the erroneously typed ad.

【中文譯文】

馬有什么毛病嗎?

一個人衷愛的馬死了，他打算在報紙上刊登一則廣告：50元賣馬鞍和馬韁繩。無意中報紙在廣告語中加了個逗號，讀起來變成：50元賣馬，馬鞍和馬韁繩。

馬上就有人詢問這則廣告，這馬的價格真是太便宜了，詢問者說，馬有什么毛病嗎?哦，它是死的，撰寫這條廣告的人回答道。

【詞匯講解】

1.beloved 所鐘愛的。 She was beloved of all who knew her. 認識她的人都喜歡她。

2.ad 廣告，是advertisement的縮寫，口語中通常都用ad來代替advertisement。

3.inadvertently粗心大意地。詞根是advertent注意的，而加上前綴in-后就表示反義“粗心的”的意思了。

4.add…to 給…加上…。常用的表達還有ad up to,是“合計達到…”的意思，例如：What do all the arguments add up to ?所有的論據歸結起來說明

了什么?

5.comma，逗號?；仡櫼幌掠⒄Z中標點的說法：full stop句號;quotation marks引號;question mark問號;colon冒號

6.erroneously錯誤地。形容詞是erroneous，例如：receive an erroneous impression得到錯誤的印象;erroneous assumptions錯誤的假設。