约翰终于要离开精神病院了,他的治疗漫长而痛苦。他接受注射的同时还接受电击,并且他勇敢地经受了许多冷水浴,现在所有这一切都要结束了,如果他通过最后的测试的话。
A:Sit down,please,John.
约翰,请坐。
B:But I am rather nervous for I have no idea what the test is going to be like.
但是我有些紧张,因为我不知道测试会是怎样的。
A:Now,my dear fellow,suppose I'll just tell you what happened in one of the streets of London last Sunday and you will tell me what's wrong with my story I
现在,我亲爱的伙计,我就要给你讲一件上星期天发生在伦敦一条街道上的事情,然后你要告诉我我讲的故事有什么错!
B:OK.
好吧。
A:A motor-cyclist crashed into a bus,was knocked off his seat and lay unconscious in the roadway. A tram that happened to be passing cut his head off. A member of the Salvation Army who~sorry for the fellow picked up his head and the body too, took them to a chemist's,bought some adhesive plaster, stuck the head in its place, put the plaster round the fellow's neck and the two chaps went to a club for a game of billiards.
一个骑摩托车的人撞上了一辆公共汽车,他被撞倒了,昏迷不醒,躺在路上。一辆电车恰好路过把他的头碾了下来。一个救世军的成员可怜那个家伙,就捡起他的头和身躯,拿到一家药店,买了些橡皮膏,把头接上,用橡皮膏在那家伙的脖子上缠了几圈,然后这两个人一起到一家俱乐部玩台球去了。
B:I got you there,Lhat's sheer nonsense!
我知道是怎么回事了,那纯粹是一派胡言!
A:(Happily ) 1-Iow do you know
(高兴地)你怎么知道?
B:Chemist's and all other shops are shut on Sundays,aren't they?
药店和其他所有商店星期天都不开门,不是吗?