Teacher: If you had five chocolate bars, and your
younger sister asked you for one, how many would you have
left?
Terry: Five!
还有多少?
老师:假如你有五块巧克力,你妹妹问你要一块,你还剩几块?
特里:还剩五块!
An Absolute Zero
Student: I don't think I deserve an absolute zero.
Professor: Neither do I, but it is the lowest mark that I
am allowed to give.
零分
学生:我认为我不应该得零分。
教授:我也这么认为,但这是允许我打的最低分数。
Typing
Teacher: Your typing is improving, Mary. There are
only seventeen mistakes here.
Mary: That's great!
Teacher: And now I'll look at the second sentence.
打字
老师:玛丽,你的打字有进步。这儿只有十七个错。
玛丽:那太棒了!
老师:现在我再来看看第二句……
An Essential Correction
Teacher: Walter, why don't you wash your face? I can see
what you had for breakfast this morning.
Walter: What was it?
Teacher: Eggs.
Walter: Wrong, teacher. That was yesterday.
"Gerald," asked the teacher, "what is the shape of the
earth?"
"It's round," answered Gerald.
"How do you know it's round?" continued the teacher. "All right,
it's square then," he replied, " I really don't feel like getting
into an argument about it!"