时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:趣味英语


英语课

Are you a normal person?

你是正常人吗?

During a visit to the mental asylum 1, a visitor asked the director ..., "What is the criterion that defines a patient to be institutionalized?" "Well..." said the director, "we fill up a bathtub, and we offer a teaspoon 2, a teacup, and a bucket to the patient and ask him to empty the bathtub."  "Oh, I understand," said the visitor. "A normal person would choose the bucket as it is larger than the spoon or the teacup."  "Noooooooo!" answered the director. "A normal person would pull the plug."


参观一所精神病院的时候一个参观者问院长,“你们是用什么标准来决定一个人是否应该被关进精神病院呢?” “呃… …”院长说,“是这样,我们先给一个浴缸放满水,然后我们给病人一个调茶匙,一个茶杯和一个水桶去把浴缸里面的水放清。” “噢,我明白了”, 参观者说。“一个正常人会选择水桶, 因为水桶比茶匙,茶杯的体积大。” “错了”,“院长回答”“正常人会把浴缸塞子拔掉”。



n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
n.茶匙
  • Add one teaspoon of sugar.加一小茶匙糖。
  • I need a teaspoon to stir my tea.我需要一把茶匙搅一搅茶。
标签: normal
学英语单词
a cinch
a punta d'arce
absorber auxiliary
Aconitum henryi
aesthetic calisthenics
alloy-type
Allwood
Anemone tibetica
ANLL
antithetic, antithetical
ash-grey light
bar line printer
Barclays Banks
be tried at the Bar
book inventory
cakeholes
carriage wrenches
Choba
chylifactory
cine-sextant tracking telescope
Clearnet
cold butter
contact shoe
continuous electrode water heater
cranio-
creeping pressure
Dabroszyn
donghi
Donli
doomsdays
dry wing
drying-air temperature
elastotic nodules of the ear
elevator receipt
eseptate
extraoral film
fallen out of step with
fifo memory
Frederikshåbs Banke
gloria in excelsis deo
go way
greffiers
growth in place theory
hard brittle rock
have someone's shirt out
high-frequency plastic welder
image-processing system
independent inspector
individual symbol
initial corona voltage test
lead(ii) oxydihydroxide
leaktight
Leighton Buzzard
lemmie
linear current range
load waterline(lwl)
lockstitch
make a complaint
manser
marne(la marne riviere)
mislist
model reference control system
modified sandwich testing
non-reusable twist-on connection device
nygun
overwait
oysterling
passive circulation
photon drag effective
pin vice
pressure sensitive direction probe
radially open set
revolutio
rules of transactions
screen connector
secondary vein
self-lube two-bolt flange unit
semapa
semi-mechanized operation
set-in sleeve
side-products
stable transverse oscillations
stipa sibirica
suction firing
superfault list
Swedish gymnastics
tank reactor
ticer
trail spark plug
Trent process
triple diffusion
trot mooring
twist-tie
uncarbonated lye
uncommanded
vote sth up or down
wearing one's birthday suit
welding between pipe connect
wood chemistry
woven wire mesh filter
zat