long nose are very strange. They can sing and dance. The giraffes are quite tall because of their long necks. So they can reach the top of the trees.
故事 33 动物
世界上有许多钟动物，人们不知道它们确切的数目。在动物园里人们可以看到很多种类的
动物，如：狮子、老虎，它们都令人害怕；猴子和狐狸是狡猾的；人们认为熊猫，考拉熊是如此伶俐和聪明。有些动物居住在水里，如海豚，它们的家需要很多的水。大象长有奇特的长鼻子，它们会唱歌和跳舞。长颈鹿长着非常长的脖子，因为他们可以够到数的顶部。
Story 34 A Silly Man
Fred was going to school. When he passed a park, he saw a man sawing a big branch from a tree. The man was on a ladder and the ladder was against the big branch he was sawing. “Hi, it is dangerous.” Fred shouted. “After you cut off the branch, you will fall, too.” But the man didn’t believe him, and said angrily, “Go away, you little thing. It’s none of your business.” Fred could do nothing, so he left. He didn’t go far before he heard something crashed. He rushed back and found the man lying on the ground.
Fred asked some men for help. They carried the man to the hospital.
$5,000; another one, $10,000; and the third one, $30,000. The customer asked the owner, “How come this guy is $5,000? That’s so expensive for this kindof parrot.” The owner said, “Because I have trained him
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故事34 一个愚蠢的人
弗雷德走在上学的路上。路过一个公园时，他看见一个人在锯一棵大树的树枝。“嗨，你这么做很危险的。”费雷得喊道：“你锯了那树枝后，你会摔下来的。”而那个人不相信他，愤怒地说：“快走开，小东西，没有你的事。” 费雷德没趣地离开了。他没有走多远就听见一声响，他急忙跑回去，发现那个人躺在地上。
英语幽默故事
There was a guy who went into a shop to buy a parrot. There werethree parrots in the shop. One was
and he can talk.” So the customer asked him, “How about this guy? What can he do that makes him so expensive?” The owner said, “Well, apart from
talking, he can also do some amusing actions,like 有个人到一间商店买鹦鹉。店里有三只鹦鹉，其中dancing and so on. That’s why he’s so expensive.” 一只卖五千元，另一只卖一万元，还有一只卖三万Then the customer said, “How about the third one? 元。顾客问老板：「为什么这只要卖五千元？这个What canhe do that makes him so expensive?” The 价钱对这种鹦鹉来说太贵了！」老板说：「因为我有owner of the shopsaid, “I don’t know. Normally, I 训练他讲话。」顾客又问：「那这只呢？他会做什have never heard him talk, nor dance, nor whistle, 么？为什么要卖这么贵？」老板说：「他除了会说nor sing, nothing at all! But the other two call him 话之外，还会表演一些有趣的动作，好比说跳舞等‘The Boss.’”
等，所以才卖这么贵。」顾客接着又问：「那第三只呢？他会做什么？为什么要卖这么贵？」老板说：「我不知道。我从没听过他讲话、吹口哨或唱歌，也没看过他跳舞，什么都没有！不过另外两只叫他：『老板！』」
Teacher:Can you make a sentence with the word \
Student:Yes.I ate a piece of cake yesterday. Teacher:Then where is the “egg\ Student:In the cake,Sir.
Tom is a little boy, and he is only seven years old. Once he goes to a cinema. It is the first time for him to do that. He buys a ticket and goes in. But after two or three minutes he comes out, and buys the second ticket and goes in again. After a few minutes he comes out again and buys the third ticket. Two or three minutes after that he comes out and asks for another ticket. But a girl asks him,“Why do you buy so many tickets? How many friends do you meet?” “No, I have no friends here, but a big woman always stops me at the door and cuts up my ticket.”
汤姆是个小孩， 他才7岁。 当他去电影院的时候。那时他第一次去。他买了张票进去了。 但没过两三分钟他就出来了，然后买了第二张票又进去了。 几分钟后他又出来买了第三张票。 接着两三分钟后他又出来买票。 一个女的问她，“你为什么要买那么多票啊? 你见到了几个朋友？\\没有， 我里面没朋友， 但是每当我进门的时候一位大的女人老把我的票给剪了\
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鸡蛋在哪里？
老师：你能用“鸡蛋”一词造句吗？ 学生：可以。我昨天吃了一块蛋糕。 老师：“鸡蛋”在哪？ 学生：在蛋糕里，先生
Child:My uncle has 1000 men under him. Man:He is really somebody.What does do? Child:A maintenance man in a cemetery
Teacher: Would Shakespeare be a great man if he were still alive today?
Student: Of course. He must be a great man, for so far nobody has lived to over 400 years.
他真是一个大人物
小孩：我叔叔下面有1000个人。
男人：他真是一个大人物。他是干什么的？ 小孩：墓地守墓人。一名伟人
老师：如果莎士比亚还活着，他会是一名伟人吗？ 学生：当然。因为到目前为止，还没有人活到400多岁。
A little kid fell in love with another little kid, a school 有个小孩爱上了另一个小孩，对方是学校的同学。mate. Sometimes the kids think they fall in love when 八岁或十岁左右的孩子有时会迷恋班上某个人，然they have a crush on someone else in the class, when 后就以为自己恋爱了。因此这个八岁的小孩回家问they’re eight or ten years old or something like that. 他爸爸：「爸爸，结婚很花钱吗？」爸爸说：「是啊，So the eight-year-old kid came back home and asked 儿子，非常花钱。」儿子又问：「要花多少钱呢？」his father, “Father, is it expensive to be married?” 爸爸说：「我不知道，儿子，我到现在还一直在付And the father said, “Yes, son, it is very expensive.” 钱啊！」 So the son asked, “How much does it cost?” And the father said, “I don’t know, son. I’m still paying.”
\have you got cotton-wool in your ear? Is it infected?\\sir, but you said yesterday that everything you told me went in one ear and out the other , so I am trying to stop it.\
“I'm sorry ，Madam ，but I shall have to charge you twenty dollars for pulling your boy's tooth .” “Twenty d ollars! Why ，I understand you to say that you charged only four dollars for such work!” “Yes，but this youngster yelled so terribly that he scared four other patients out of the office .”
“对不起，夫人，为您孩子拔牙我要收取20美元。” “20美元！为什么？不是说好只要4美元。” “是的，但是你的孩子大喊大叫，把另外四个病人吓跑了。”
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“孩子，你为什么用棉花塞住耳朵？它感染了吗？”
“没有，老师。可是你昨天说你告诉我的知识都是一个耳朵里进，一个耳朵里出，所以我要把它堵在里面。”
Mr. Smith: Waiter, there's a dead fly in my soup. Waiter: Yes, sir, I know---it's the heat that kills it.
Son: Dad, give me a dime.
Father: Son, don't you think you're getting too big to be forever begging for dimes?
: I guess you're right, Dad, Give me a dollar, will you?
TWO： Teacher：We all know that beat causes an object to expand an cold cauese it to contract. Now，can anyone give me a good example?
John：Well ，in the summer the days are long，and in the winter the days are short.
The lecturer on evolution had been going on for nearly two hours. then he started again, and said he:\me ask the evolutionist a question --- if we had tails like a baboon, where are they?\
\venture an answer, \said an old lady. \have worn them off sitting here so long.\
史密斯先生：服务员，我的汤里有一只死苍蝇． 服务员：是的，先生，我知道了，它是被烫死的．
儿子：爸爸，给我一角钱。
父亲：儿子，你不认为你已经长大了，不该再老是一角一角地要钱了(该自立了)，不是吗？
儿子：爸爸，我想你是对的，那给我一块钱行吗？老师：我们都知道热胀冷缩的道理。现在，谁给我举个例子？
约翰：嗯，在夏天天都长，在冬天天都短。
教进化论的老师已经滔滔不绝地讲了快两个小时，他的话题又来了：“让我向进化论者提个问题——如果我们曾经像狒狒那样长着尾巴，那么现在尾巴到哪里去了？”
“我来试试看，”一位老太太说。
“该是我们在这里坐这么久把它们磨掉了吧。”
A man was going to the house of some rich person. As away; you may be glad to have them at some other he went along the road, he saw a box of good apples at time. the side of the road. He said, \do not want to eat those apples; for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to eat.\apples and threw them away into the dust. He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big; so he could not go over it. He waited for some time; then he said, \I cannot get over the river.\had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the apples, and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them. Do not throw good things
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【译文】 一个人正朝着一个富人的房子走去，当他苹果，很高兴地把它们从尘土中翻出来吃了。 不要沿着路走时，在路的一边他发现一箱好苹果，他说：把好东西扔掉，换个时候你会觉得它们大有用处。 “我不打算吃那些苹果，因为富人会给我更多的食物， 他会给我很好吃的东西。”然后他拿起苹果，一把扔 到土里去。 他继续走，来到河边，河涨水了，因此， 他到不了河对岸，他等了一会儿，然后他说：“今天 我去不了富人家了，因为我不能渡过河。” 他开始回 家，那天他没有吃东西。他就开始去找吃的，他找到
Drunk
醉酒
One day, a father and his little son were going 一天，父亲与小儿子一块儿回家。这个孩子正home. At this age, the boy was interested in all 处于那种对什么事都很感兴趣的年龄，老是有kinds of things and was always asking questions. 提不完的问题。他向父亲发问道：“爸爸，‘醉’Now, he asked, \the meaning of the 字是什么意思？” “唔，孩子，”父亲回答说，“你word 'Drunk', dad?\\my son,\his father 瞧那儿站着两个警察。如果我把他们看成了四replied, \个，那么我就算醉了。” “可是，爸爸， ”孩子If I regard the two policemen as four then I am 说，“那儿只有一个警察呀！”
drunk.\
\dad,\the boy said, \there's only ONE policeman!\
Sleeping Pills
安眠药
Bob was having trouble getting to sleep at night. 鲍勃晚上失眠。他去看医生，医生给他开了一He went to see his doctor, who prescribed some 些强力安眠药。
extra-strong sleeping pills.
星期天晚上鲍勃吃了药，睡得很好，在闹钟响Sunday night Bob took the pills, slept well and 之前就醒了过来。他到了办公室，遛达进去，was awake before he heard the alarm. He took 对老板说：“我今天早上起床一点麻烦都没his time getting to the office, strolled in and said 有。”
to his boss: \“好啊!”老板吼道，“那你星期一和星期二到哪up this morning.\
儿去了？” \boss, \where were you Monday and Tuesday?\
普通英语故事
Story 1 Ten Candies
candies, and you eat four, then how many Mother asks her son, “Jim, if you have ten
candles do you have?”
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儿童英语故事、小学生英语故事
