Mother: I left two pieces of cake in the cupboard this morning, Johnny, and now there is only one piece left. Can you explain that?Johnny: Well, I suppose it was so dark that I didn’t notice the other.
媽媽：約翰尼，我今天早上在櫥子裏放了兩塊點心。現在就剩下一塊了。你能解釋一下嗎?約翰尼：嗯，我想是因爲裏面太黑我沒看到另外那塊。
Jacky: I found 50 cents on the sidewalk in front of y: I think it's mine. I dropped 50 cents there today and couldn't find y: But what I found was two y: Then I'm sure it's mine. It probably broke when it hit the sidewalk.
傑克：我在學校門前的人行道上揀了50分。湯米：我想那是我的，今天我在那兒掉了50分，找不到了。傑克：但是我揀的是兩個兩毛五的呀。湯米：那就更是我的了。因爲錢在掉到地上的時候可能摔兩半了。
A young mother believed that it was very wrong to waste any food when there were so many hungry people in the world. One evening, she was giving her small daughterher tea before putting her to bed. First she gave her a slice of fresh brown bread and butter, but the child said that she did not want it like that. She asked for some jam on her bread as mother looked at her for a few seconds and then said, When I was a small girl like you, Lucy, I was always given either bread and butter, or bread and jam, but never bread with butter and looked at her mother for a few moments with pity in her eyes and then said to her kindly, Aren't you pleased that you've come to live with us now?
一位年輕的母親認爲，世界上還有許多受飢餓的人，浪費食物真不應該。有天晚上，在安排幼小的女兒睡覺之前，她給女兒喂夜宵。她先給她一片新鮮的黑麪包和黃油，但孩子說她不喜歡這樣吃。她還要一些果醬塗在麪包上。母親看了女兒幾秒鐘，隨即說道，露茜，當我象你一樣小的時候，總是吃麪包加黃油，或者麪包加果醬，從來沒有面包既加黃油又加果醬。露茜看了母親一會兒，眼中露出憐憫的神情，然後她柔聲說：您現在能跟我們生活在一起難道不感到高興嗎?
Englishman
Once, late at night, an Englishman came out of his room into the corridor of a hotel and asked the servant to bring him a glass of water. The servant did as he was asked. The Englishman re-entered his room, but a few minutes later he came into the corridor again and once more asked the servant for a glass of water. The servant brought him another glass of water. Every few minutes the Englishmen would come out of his room and repeat his request. After a half-hour the astonished servant decided to ask the Englishman what he was doing with the water. "Nothing," the Englishman answered imperturbably, "It’s simply that my room is on fire."
一個英國人
一天晚上，一個英國人從他住的旅店房間裏走出來。來到走廊上，叫旅店的服務員給他拿一杯水來。服務員按他的'要求做了。英國人回到了他的房間裏，幾分鐘後 他又來到走廊上，讓服務員再給他送一杯水。服務員又給他送了一杯水。每隔幾分鐘。英國人就走出房間重複他的要求。 半小時之後.這位感到驚訝的服務員決定問問房客要這些水幹什麼，英國人不謊不忙地回答：”沒什麼.只不過是我的房間裏起火了。“