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“那你是怎樣讓美國人跳的?”

“很簡單,”船長說,“我告訴他,他已經上了保險了。”

Psychology

Several international businessmen were on a conference cruise when the ship began to sink。 “Go and tell those fellows to put on life jackets and jump overboard;” the captain directed his first mate。

A few minutes later the first mate returned。 “Those guys won’t jump;”he reported。 “Take over;” the captain ordered, “and I’ll see what I can do。”

Returning moments later; he announced; “They’ve gone。”

“How’d you do it?” asked the first mate。

“I used psychology。 I told the Englishman it was the sporting thing to do; and he jumped。 I told the Frenchman it was chic; the German that it was a mand; the Italian that it was forbidden。”

“And how did you get the American to jump?”

“No problem;” said the captain。 “I told him he was insured!”

聰明的翻譯

一個正在日本訪問的著名作家應邀到一所大學為一大群學生作演講。由於這些學生中的大部分人都不懂英語,無奈之下,作家請了一名翻譯。

在演講的過程中,他利用很長一段時間講了一個有趣的故事。最後,他停了下來,讓翻譯將這個故事譯成日語。令他驚訝的是,這個翻譯只用了幾秒鐘的時間就翻譯完了,在座的所有學生都大聲笑起來。

演講結束後,作家非常感謝這名翻譯出色地完成了工作,作家對他說:“現在,請你告訴我,你是怎樣把如此長的一個故事用日語翻譯得那麼短呢?”

“我根本就沒有講這個故事,”翻譯笑著說,“我只是說,‘這個令人尊敬的演講者剛才講了一個非常有趣的故事,請大家笑一下’。”

A Clever Interpreter

A famous writer who was visiting Japan was invited to have a lecture at a university to a large group of students。 As most of them could not understand spoken English; he had to have an interpreter。

During his lecture he told an amusing story which went on for rather a long time。 A