听笑话学外语:获奖答案
日期:2011-10-24 15:09
(单词翻译:单击)
【生词预览】
contest竞赛, break out突然发生
【笑话原文】
Response Ability
A newspaper organized a contest for the best answer to the question: "If a fire broke out in the Louvre, and if you could only save one painting, which one would you carry out?"
The winning reply was: "The one nearest the exit."
【中文译文】
获奖答案
一份报纸组织了一场竞赛,为下面的问题征集最佳答案:“如果卢浮宫起了火,而你只能救出一幅画,你将救出哪一幅?” 获奖的答案是:“最接近门口的那一幅。”
【词汇讲解】
1.contest竞赛。也可以指“搏斗”: This is man's contest with nature.这是人与大自然的搏斗。
2.the Louvre卢浮宫(现为国立美术博物馆)。
3.break out突然发生。 The Second World War broke out in September 1939.第二次世界大战爆发于1939年9月。
4.exit出口。也可以作动词,指“离去”: She exited in a hurry.她匆忙离去