My Marine buddy and I met two nursing students. When we told them we were in the infantry, the girls seemed very impressed, giving us big smiles as they told us how sweet that was. Since infantry and sweet are seldom used in the same sentence, I was a little confused. Until, that is, one of the girls said, “We admire any man who works with infants.”
我和我在海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)的朋友碰到兩個(gè)護(hù)士學(xué)生。聽到我們倆是步兵,兩個(gè)姑娘看起來(lái)很感動(dòng),面帶笑容地說那有多么甜美。由于很少聽到把步兵和甜美放在同一個(gè)句子里,我有點(diǎn)發(fā)懵,直到一個(gè)姑娘說:“我們欽佩所有和嬰兒一起工作的男人?!?