校園笑話(huà)：8、 Greek 希臘語(yǔ)

8. Greek

Mr. Day was a teacher at a school in a big city in the north of England. He usually went to France or Germany for a few weeks during his summer holidays, and he spoke French and German quite well.

But one year Mr. Day said to one of his colleagues, "I'm going to have a holiday in Athens1. But I don't speak Greek, so I'll go to evening classes and have Greek lessons for a month before I go." He studied very hard for a month, and then his holidays began and he went to Greece.

When he came back a few weeks later, his colleague said to him, "Did you have any trouble with your Greek when you were in Athens, Dick?"

No, I didn't have any trouble with it. answered Mr. Day. "But the Greeks did!"

Notes:

1. Greek 希臘人，希臘語(yǔ)

2. Athens 雅典

希臘語(yǔ)

戴先生是英格蘭北部一個(gè)大城市里的中學(xué)教師。暑假期間他通常到法國(guó)或德國(guó)去度幾周的假，他的法語(yǔ)和德語(yǔ)都講得相當(dāng)好。

然而有一年，戴先生對(duì)他的一位同事說(shuō)：“我準(zhǔn)備上雅典去度假。可是我不會(huì)講希臘語(yǔ)，所以去雅典前我將先去夜校進(jìn)修一個(gè)月的希臘語(yǔ)課程?！彼苡霉Φ貙W(xué)了一個(gè)月后，他的假期也接著開(kāi)始了，于是他就去了希臘。

幾周后，他回來(lái)了。他的同事問(wèn)他說(shuō)：“迪克，你在雅典時(shí)，使用希臘語(yǔ)有沒(méi)有遇到困難？”

戴先生回答說(shuō)：“沒(méi)有，我的希臘語(yǔ)用來(lái)得心應(yīng)手，倒是那些希臘人遇到了麻煩?！?

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