1.He Swore to Die
If you refuse to marry me, he swore, I shall die.
She refused him.
Sixty years later, he died.
翻译：
他曾发誓要死
如果你不答应嫁给我，他发誓，我就要去死。
她拒绝了他。
六十年后，他死了。
2.Big Head
“All the kids make fun of me,” the boy cried to his mother, “They say I have a big head.”
“Don‘t listen to them,” his mother comforted him, “You have a beautiful head. Now stop crying and go to the store for ten pounds of potatoes.”
“Where‘s the shopping bag?”
“I haven‘t got one, use your hat.”
翻译：
大脑袋
“所有的孩子都拿我开玩笑，”小男孩哭着跟妈妈说：“他们说我长了一个大脑袋。”
“别听他们的，”他妈妈安慰说：“你的脑袋长得很漂亮。好了，别哭了，去商店买10磅土豆来。”
“购物袋在哪？”
“我没有购物袋，就用你的帽子吧。”
3.Difference
“I can always tell a graduate class from an undergraduate class,” observed the instructor in one of my graduate engineering courses at California State University in Los Angeles.
“When I say, ‘Good afternoon,‘ the undergraduates respond, ‘Good afternoon.” But the graduate students just write it down.”
翻译：
区别
“研究生班和本科生很容易就能区别开来，”在洛杉矶加利福利亚州立大学给我们研究生上工程学课的老师如此说。
“我说‘下午好’，本科生们回答说‘下午好’。研究生们则把我说的话记在笔记本上。”
4.Such a Long Dog
Once there was a blind. One day when he was walking, he stepped the head of the dog who was sleeping. The dog barked for a while. The blind man went on for miles, this time he stepped the other dog‘s tail, so this dog barked. The blind man had thought that it was the first dog, so he said in surprise, It‘s a wonder that the dog is so long.
翻译：
如此长的狗
从前有个瞎子。一天，他正在行路时踩着了一只正在睡觉的狗的脑袋，狗汪汪汪地叫了一阵。这人又往前走，这回踩着的是另外一只狗的尾巴，狗又汪汪汪地叫起来。瞎子以为还是那条狗，惊诧地说：奇怪，这只狗可真够长的。
