看笑話學(xué)英語(yǔ):My dad is as old as I am 爸爸和我同歲

My dad is as old as I am 爸爸和我同歲

英語(yǔ)笑話

Teacher: How old is your dad?

Student: He is as old as I am.

Teacher: How is it possible?

Student: Because he became a dad only after I was born.

中文翻譯

老師：你爸爸多大年紀(jì)了？

學(xué)生：他和我一樣大。

老師：怎么可能？

學(xué)生：因?yàn)樗窃谖页錾蟛懦蔀榘职值摹?/p>

口語(yǔ)實(shí)踐

A　How old are you?

B　I'm twenty years old.

A　你多大了？

B　我二十歲了。

A　You don't look your age. I'm 28, by the way.

B　Is that right? I thought you might be a bit older…just joking.

A　你看上去真的沒那么大。另外我28歲了。

B　是真的嗎？我覺得你可能更老一點(diǎn)……開開玩笑而已。

A　How old are you, Miss Green?

B　Sorry. It's a secret.

A　格林小姐，你多大了？

B　對(duì)不起。保密。

★secret [?si?kr?t] n. 秘密

笑話文化解讀

在西方，人們很少談年齡這一敏感的問題。在西方人看來，“老”就意味著“不中用了”，“該退休了”，所以“old”也就成了他們忌用的詞，而用“seasoned man”“elderly people”，“senior citizen”來代替。如果用“old”一詞來表示稱呼上了年紀(jì)的人，他們就會(huì)感到不快，覺得尊嚴(yán)受到損害。因此就用getting on years（年歲增長(zhǎng)），advanced in age（高壽），senior citizens（年長(zhǎng)的公民），past one's prime（過了鼎盛期）和reach one's golden age（進(jìn)入黃金年華）等來替代老字。也就是說，詢問西方國(guó)家女士的年齡是相當(dāng)不禮貌的事，像“How old are you?”之類的表達(dá)是不宜在正式交際中出現(xiàn)的。