草民盡量用簡單的詞匯和簡單的結構來翻譯此笑話,看官輕拍!
壹次,三個蘋果公司的工程師和三個微軟公司的職員乘火車到另壹個城市去開會。在火車站三個微軟公司的職員每個人各買了壹張火車票。然而他們驚奇地看到三個蘋果公司的工程師壹***只買了壹張火車票。
One day, there were three engineers from Apple, and three clerks from Microsoft, they all needed to travel by train to attend a meeting in another town. At the Train Station, each clerk from Microsoft bought a ticket. They were surprised to find that the three engineers of Apple only bought one ticket.
“妳們三個人怎麽可以只用壹張火車票乘火車旅行呢?”壹個微軟公司的職員問。
“How can you three guys travel with only one ticket?” one of the Microsoft clerks asked.
“妳們就等著瞧吧。”蘋果公司的工程師回答。
“Let’s wait and see.” One of the Apple engineers answered.
他們都上了火車。微軟的職員每個人找到自己的座位,而三個蘋果的工程師卻擠進了壹個衛生間,然後從裏面把門關上。火車開動沒有多久,列車員開始收票。他走到衛生間的門口,敲了敲門,說道:“請拿出車票。”衛生間的門僅僅打開了壹道縫,從裏面伸出壹只胳膊,手裏拿著壹張車票。列車員收了車票就繼續到別的地方去了。微軟的職員看了以後覺得這真是壹個絕妙的主意,所以開完會後,他們決定也照此辦理,拷貝蘋果工程師的辦法,在回去的路上也能省壹些錢。他們來到火車站只買了壹張回程車票。可是,令他們驚愕的是,蘋果的工程師壹張車票也沒買!
They all boarded the train. Each of the Microsoft clerks found his seat, while the three Apple engineers squeezed themselves into a restroom, and then closed the door. The conductor began collecting tickets not long after the train started. He went to the door of the restroom, knocked on the door and said, “Ticket, please.” The restroom door was opened just a little, a hand reached out with a ticket in it. After collecting the ticket, the conductor went on to other places. The Microsoft clerks thought this a marvelous idea and decided, once the meeting was over, they would copy what the Apple engineers had done, to save some money on the trip back home. They went to the Train Station and bought only one ticket for the trip back home. But they were shocked to find that the Apple engineers didn’t bother buying even one single ticket!
“妳們怎麽壹張車票也不買就能乘火車呢?”壹個迷惑不解的微軟職員問道。
“How can you guys travel by train without even one ticket?” a perplexed Microsoft clerk asked.
“妳們就等著瞧吧。”壹個蘋果的工程師回答。
“Let’s wait and see.” One of the Apple engineers answered.
當他們上了火車,三個微軟的職員擠進了壹個衛生間,而三個蘋果的工程師也擠進了附近的另壹個衛生間。就在火車剛剛開動,壹個蘋果的工程師迅速離開了他所在的衛生間,徑直來到微軟職員躲藏的衛生間門外。他敲了敲門,說道:“請拿出車票。”
They all boarded the train, the three Microsoft clerks squeezed themselves into a restroom, and the three Apple engineers also squeezed themselves into another restroom. As soon as the train started, one of the Apple engineers quickly came out of his restroom and went to the restroom where the Microsoft clerks were hiding. He knocked on the door and said, “Ticket, please.”