【生词预览】

plow耕地，gallop飞奔，veterianarian兽医

【笑话原文】

A Smart Horse

There was a farmer who fell and broke his hip while he was plowing, and his horse immediately galloped five miles to the nearest town and returned, carrying a doctor on his back.

"That’s a pretty smart horse," the farmer’s friend later observed.

"Well, he’s not really so smart," the farmer said. "The doctor he brought back was a veterinarian!"

【中文译文】

没有那么聪明

一位农夫在犁田时，不慎跌倒摔伤了屁股，他的马立即飞奔到五里外最近的小镇，载了一位医生回来。一个朋友看到后便夸赞说：“你这匹马真是聪明!”

农夫说：“也没有你想的那么聪明啦!它带来的是一位兽医!”

【词汇讲解】

1.hip臀部。on the hip处于不利地位。

2.plow耕地。名词指“犁”。

3.observe评论。也可以指“看到”：We observed that it had turned cloudy.我们注意到天已经变阴了。

4.gallop飞奔。Prices galloped.物价飞涨。

5. veterinarian 兽医。He is a veterinarian; he is very kind to animals.

他是位兽医，他对动物们可好了。