村子里的白癡突然發(fā)了大財(cái),穿上了新衣服,鄰居們對(duì)他的暴富感到很驚奇。
A:What's happened to you?
你做了什么事?
B:1 won the first prize in the lottery.
我中了頭彩。
A:How did you come to guess the luck number?
你是怎么猜中幸運(yùn)號(hào)碼的?
B:Well, three times running I dreamed of seven; so I figured it out that three times seven are twenty-four, and I bought ticket number 24 I won the first prize.
哦,我做夢(mèng)夢(mèng)見(jiàn)了7這個(gè)號(hào)碼三次。于是我算出7的3倍是24.于是我買了號(hào)碼是24的彩票。這張票中了頭彩。
A:NVhy, you blamed fool, three times seven is twenty-one, not twenty-four.
哎呀,你這個(gè)該死的傻瓜,7的3倍是21不是24。
B:Is that so? Well, twenty-four won, anyway.
是這樣嗎?哦,不管怎么說(shuō),24中了。