I'm Trying to Stop It
"Boy, why have you got cotton-wool in your ear? Is it infected?"
"No, 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."
“孩子，妳為什麽用棉花塞住耳朵？它感染了嗎？”
“沒有，老師。可是妳昨天說妳告訴我的知識都是壹個耳朵裏進，壹個耳朵裏出，所以我要把它堵在裏面。”
2.
“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 .”
“對不起，夫人，為您孩子拔牙我要收取20美元。”
“20美元！為什麽？不是說好只要4美元。”
“是的，但是妳的孩子大喊大叫，把另外四個病人嚇跑了。”