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发表于 26.1.2004 19:48:00 | 只看该作者
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  Only in America…<br>只有在美国。。。<br><br>1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.<br>只有在美国。。。比萨饼能比救护车更快到达你的门口<br>2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.<br>只有在美国。。。在滑冰场的门口有残疾人的专用停车位<br>3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.<br>只有在美国。。。药店让病人走到最后面去取药,但是健康人却可以在最前面买到烟<br>4. Only in America......do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.<br>只有在美国。。。人们吃双层汉堡,大薯条,却喝减肥可乐<br>5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.<br>只有在美国。。。银行让大门敞开,却把笔用链子固定在柜台上<br>6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.<br>只有在美国。。。人们把价值成千上万的汽车停放在车道上,却把一钱不值的&quot;垃圾&quot;放在车库里<br>7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won&#39;t miss a call from someone we didn&#39;t want to talk to in the first place.<br>只有在美国。。。人们用电话答录机来屏蔽不想接到的电话,却又有&quot;来电等候&quot;功能,生怕错过一个其实并不想接到的电话<br>8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.<br>只有在美国。。。做热狗的香肠是10个一包,做热狗的面包却是8个一包<br>9. Only in America......do we use the word &#39;politics&#39; to describe the process so well: &#39oli&#39; in Latin meaning &#39;many&#39; and &#39;tics&#39; meaning &#39;bloodsucking creatures&#39;.<br>只有在美国。。。政治&quotolitics&quot;这个词真是贴切到了家:&quotoli&quot;在拉丁语中是&quot;很多&quot; 的意思,而&quot;tics&quot;是&quot;吸血生物&quot; 的意思<br>10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.<br>只有在美国。。。开着车取钱的自动柜员机刻有盲文<br><br>EVER WONDER<br>有没有想过<br><br>Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?<br>为什么太阳能把头发晒浅,却能把皮肤晒黑?<br>Why women can&#39;t put on mascara with their mouth closed?<br>为什么女人闭着嘴就不能上睫毛膏?<br>Why don&#39;t you ever see the headline &#33; &quotsychic Wins Lottery&quot;?<br>为什么你从来没见过头版头条写!&quot;算命师中大奖&quot;<br>Why is &quot;abbreviated&quot; such a long word?<br>为什么&quot;缩写&quot;是这么长的一个单词?<br>Why is it that doctors call what they do &quot;practice&quot;?<br>为什么医生们管他们所做的事情叫做&quot;实习, 实践&quot;?<br>Why is it that to stop Windows 98, you have to click on &quot;Start&quot;?<br>为什么在要关掉视窗时,你必须先点击&quot;开始&quot;键?<br>Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?<br>为什么柠檬汁是用人造香味调料做的,而洗碗液是用真正的柠檬做的?<br>Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?<br>为什么帮你管理你的所有投资的人叫做&quot;不名一文的人&quot;?(&quot;broke&quot;在英文中有&quot;不名一文&quot;,&quot;穷到家了&quot;的意思)<br>Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?<br>为什么一天中交通最慢的时刻叫&quot;速行&quot;时刻?<br>Why isn&#39;t there mouse-flavored cat food?<br>为什么没有老鼠味儿的猫食?<br>When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?<br>当狗食被宣扬是新的和改进了的口味的时候,是谁作的口味鉴定?<br>Why didn&#39;t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?<br>为什么诺亚没有把那两支蚊子打死?(诺亚方舟上带有每种动物的雌雄各一只)<br>Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?<br>在用注射毒剂的方式执行死刑时,为什么还要消毒针头?<br>You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don&#39;t they make the whole plane out of that<br>stuff?<br>你知道那个用在飞机上的&quot;不会被摧毁&quot;的黑匣子吧?为什么他们不把整架飞机都造成那种材料的?<br>Why don&#39;t sheep shrink when it rains?<br>为什么下雨时绵羊不缩水?<br>Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?<br>为什么公寓都紧紧靠在一起?(apart是分开的意思)<br>If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?<br>如果&quot;坏处&quot; 是&quot;好处&quot;的对立面,那么&quot;众议院&quot;是不是&quot;进展&quot;的对立面?<br>If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?<br>如果飞行是这么的安全,为什么他们管飞机场叫&quot;终端&quot;?<br>
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发表于 26.1.2004 21:20:04 | 只看该作者
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