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(单词翻译:双击或拖选)
【生词预览】
cafeteria自助餐厅或食堂
【笑话原文】
The Way to Keep Away Flies
There was a customer who came and asked a waiter in a cafeteria, "Oh, tell me, Susan, how do you keep all the flies out of your coffee shop?"
So she said, "I just let the flies taste the stuff."
【中文译文】
食品试吃
有位客人问餐厅的服务生:“苏珊,你们店里都没有苍蝇,你是怎么做到的?”
苏珊回答说:“我只是让苍蝇先试吃我们的东西。”
【词汇讲解】
1.keep away使远离。也有“使缺席”的意思:What have kept you away for so long?什么事使你离开这么久?
2.fly苍蝇。a fly in the ointment 美中不足之处。
3.cafeteria自助餐厅或食堂。In the cafeteria we serve ourselves.在自助餐馆我们是自己拿菜的。
4.taste品尝。也有“品味”的意思:She has excellent taste in dress.她对衣着有极好的鉴赏力。
5.stuff食物。也可以指“材料”: He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。