Humor
1. Hu Husband Pyramid
Mr. Li: Xiao Ming, do you know how to translate “胡夫金字塔”？
Xiao Ming: (Without hesitation) It is Hu Husband Pyramid.
Mr. Li: (Laughing together with some students) How funny your translation is! Who told you to translate it like that?
Xiao Ming: I got the translation from the translation software（软件） on the web.
Mr. Li: That kind of thing isn’t reliable. The right translation should be Khufu Pyramid
2. Touch Head
A: Hi! I have something important to discuss with you?
B: Oh, it’s already twelve. My family are waiting for me at home.
A: Then shall we touch head on the concrete playground this afternoon?
B: （Much surprised）Touch head on the concrete playground?
A: Yes. That is a good place to touch head. What I want to say is 让我们下午在水泥球场碰头。
B: Ha-ha… No! My head is not hard enough to touch the concrete playground. It will bleed!
A: (Realizing something and laughing) Oh, I’m sorry to have spoken such kind of Chinglish（汉语式的英语）！Please tell me what is the English for “碰头”?
B: It’s “meet” or “get together”.
A: I’ve got it. Let’s meet on the concrete playground this afternoon, shall we?
B: OK!
3. Where …, There…!
A: Please tell me where I can find your classmate Zhao Shi?
B: Oh, too easy. Where there are small boy’s cries, there is he.
A: Why?
B: He bullies(欺负) small children. And where there are persons with long pigtails(辫子)，there is he.
A: Long pigtails?
B: Yes, his hair is longer than any girl in his class. And where there are people whose clothes are most colorful, there is he.
A: Aren’t his clothes more colorful than girls’?
B: I dare day they must be. And where there is a toilet, there is he.
A: Why stay in the toilet?
B: He smokes secretly there!
A: Where else can I find him?
B: In class where there is sound of snoring （睡觉鼾声）, there is he.
A: He must be sleeping!
4. Interesting Questions and Answers on Prepositions
1. Am I a leaf or an animal if people say I am on the tree not in the tree?
2. Which of the following must be wrong, Taiwan is to the east of China or Taiwan is in the east of China?
3. A says he has searched for thief and B says he has searched the thief. Now who exactly knows what the thief is carrying in his pockets, A or B?
4. Zhang says he is familiar to Wang; Wang says he is familiar with Zhang. Who knows more about the other, Zhang or Wan g?
5. Which sentence shows that your friend dislikes you, “I am tired of walking with you”or “I am tired with walking with you”?
6. What time shows the young couple is not getting along well with each other, the time when they shout to each other or the time when they shout at each other?
参考答案：
1. A leaf ( 人或动物在树上一般用介词in来表示; 树里面有长着的什么东西一般用介词on来表示). 2. Taiwan is to the east of China （我们应该说Taiwan is in the east of China(在中国内，是中国的一部分). 3. B（search somebody是“搜身”的意思）. 4. Wang (A is familiar to B的意思是.“A是B所熟悉的对象”，而A is familiar with B则是“A熟悉B”的意思).B 5. I am tired of walking with you (be tired of是“对…腻了”的意思，而be tired with/from是“由于…累了).6. The time when they shout at each other(shout at somebody是“对某人叫嚷”的意思).
