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Weekend joke - Pun Contest There was a man who entered a local paper's pun contest.. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did. p.s. As a reminder, I am NOT the original writer of all the "Weekend jokes", so I am NOT responsible for them. Those "weekend jokes" are from my Las Vegas real estate agent weekly. Honesty is the best policy. |
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1. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds. 這句話的表面意思是： 當時鐘餓了就會往回走四秒鐘. 但其實後半句是與短語"go back for seconds"諧音, "go back for second's"的意思是"再要點吃的(go back for second serving of food)". 2- She wore a new hairpiece every day and was considered a big wig. 這句話的表面意思是：她每天戴著新的假髮,看起來好象個大假髮。wig和hairpiece都有假髮的含義!而big wig俚語中指大人物,大享!這句雙關句(pun)真正意思是:她每天戴著新的假髮,看起來好象個大人物. 3- He is not a grave man until he is a grave man. grave有兩個含義，一個是“嚴肅的”（形容詞），一個是“墳墓”（名詞），因此這句話的意思是：他不是一個嚴肅的人，除非他躺到墳墓裏，才能嚴肅起來。 4- They pray for you today and prey on you tomorrow. pray（祈禱）和prey（捕食），發音相同，外形相似，因此這句話的意思是：他們今天爲你祈禱，明天就會加害于你。這就是兩個典型的pun。 5- He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends. 他違章超速駕駛，結果將昂貴的名車撞到樹上，他終于看到他的奔馳車（Mercedes）是怎樣撞彎（bends）的。這句話的幽默之處是將Mercedes Benz（奔馳車）中的Benz改寫成發音相同的bends。 6- Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. 這句話乍一看，好象是說：時光像箭一樣飛逝，水果像香蕉一樣飛逝。其實這句話後半部分的真正意思是：果蠅(fruit flies)喜歡吃香蕉。 7- A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tyred. 這句話的表面意思是：自行車自己站不起來，因爲它只有兩個輪胎（two-tyred）。而這句話的另外一個意思是：這輛自行車被它的主人騎了很長時間，它現在太累了（too tired）。 8- Old math teachers never die, they just become irrational. 表面意思是:年老的數學老師永遠不死,他們只是變糊塗了.但這裏"die"除了解釋作"死"外還可以理解爲"中止；結束",而irrational除了當"不理性"講還可以是"無理數(irrational number) "即除不盡的數.所以真正意思是"年老的數學老師永遠不會中止,因爲他們只是永遠無法除盡". Honesty is the best policy.
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