文体笑话：3、 Football field or graveyard 橄榄球场还是坟地

3. Football field or graveyard

An American farmer bought a land near one city, and he drove his tractor1 to plow2 the land as soon as he got the land. When plowing, he found a human tooth as his plough3 stopped.

What a bad luck! He murmured to himself and went on with the plowing. His plough stopped again at no more than 100 meters away, and this time there was another human tooth.

It's really odd! The farmer talked to himself, but kept plowing on. But 30 steps away, there appeared a third human tooth.

This is not good! He shouted, quitted his plowing and turned his tractor at opposite direction and went back home.

That night he wrote to the former owner of that land, "Was the land I bought from you a graveyard? I demand a refund4, for I don't have interest for a land full of ghosts!"

Two days later a telegraph came, it said, "Don't be angry, it was a football field!"

Notes:

1. tractor 拖拉机

2. plow 犁地

3. plough 犁

4. refund 退款

橄榄球场还是坟地

一个美国农场主在一座城市附近买下了一块地后，马上开着拖拉机去耕地，犁钵从地里翻出了一颗门牙。

“倒霉。”他嘟哝了一句，继续往前耕。100米后他又犁出了一颗牙齿。

“简直莫名其妙”，农场主自言自语，还是往前耕去。大约30步后，犁头又从土里翻出一颗牙齿。

“这肯定不对劲。”他叫了起来，掉转拖拉机就开回家去。

当晚他就给这块地的原主人写了一封信：“我买下的地以前是不是坟地？我要求您把钱还给我，我可不喜欢鬼魂出没的土地。”

两天后来了一份电报：“别生气，那里本来是个橄榄球场。”

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橄榄球起源于英国，原名为拉格比足球（Rugby football）。英国橄榄球传到其他国家以后，许多国家都创造了本土橄榄球运动，大致可以分为英式橄榄球（又称软式橄榄球）和美式橄榄球（又称硬式橄榄球）。它们不同的风格和打法赢得了非常有趣的别称，英式橄榄球被称为“君子玩的野蛮运动”，美式橄榄球则被称为“野蛮人玩的野蛮运动”。