英語幽默故事兩篇：冰激凌需要另外十便士，檔案全部重新抄錄一遍

故事一：請給我另外的十便士

Mrs。 Evans went to a large local cinema one summer afternoon 。 Half-way through the wonderful film there was the usual interval ， so that people could buy sweets ， chocolates and ice-cream 。

翻譯：一個夏天的下午，埃文斯太太到當地的一所大電影院去看電影。精彩的電影放到一半時，通常總有一箇中間休息，使大家在這裡能買些糖果、巧克力和冰激凌。

Mrs。 Evans rarely bought anything in the cinema ， but this time she was feeling hot ， so she thought ， ‘I’ll have an ice-cream to cool me 。 I certainly need it 。‘ Quite a lot of the audience were waiting to buy ice-creams from the girl who was selling them ， so Mrs。 Evans waited for her turn 。

翻譯：埃文斯太太在電影院裡很少買東西吃，但這次她感到很熱，所以她想：“我得吃塊冰激凌涼快涼快，我確實需要吃冰激凌。”很多觀眾都等著從一個賣冰激凌的姑娘那裡購買，所以埃文斯太太排隊等著。

There was a small boy in front of her 。 When it was his turn ， he offered the girl ten pence and asked for an ice-cream ， but they cost twenty pence ， so the girl said ， ’I want another ten pence ， please 。‘

翻譯：有一個小男孩排在她前面。當輪到這個男孩買時，他給姑娘10個便士要買一塊冰激凌， 但是冰激凌要20個便士，所以這姑娘就說：“請給我另外的10個便士。”

The small boy put the coin back in his pocket ， put his hand in another pocket ， took out another ten pence coin and offered that to the girl 。

翻譯：這小男孩把那個硬幣放回口袋裡，把手伸入另外一個口袋，拿出另一個10便士的硬幣，交給了那個姑娘。

Mrs。 Evans was so amused that she paid the other ten pence herself 。

翻譯：埃文斯太太被逗樂了，結果她付了那另外的10個便士。

故事二：你在銷燬之前，必須將它們全部抄錄一遍

A clerk who worked in a small office in a factory discovered that there were so many files in his room that there was not room for any more 。 Also ，each file was so full that it was impossible to add any more papers to it 。

翻譯：有一個辦事員在某工廠的一個小辦公室工作，他看到自己屋子裡存放的卷宗太多，沒有地方再放了。而且每個資料夾裡都放得很滿，再夾入些檔案都不可能了。

’Well ，‘ he thought ， ’every week I have to find room for several hundred letters ， so something will have to be done about this 。‘

翻譯：“唉！”他考慮著：“我每星期得為收到的數百封信找地方，現在必須為這個想辦法了。”

He thought and thought ， and then decided to send a note to his manager explaining what happened and asking him for his permission to go through the old files and to take out and destroy all letters which were no longer of any use 。

翻譯：他思考再三，後來決定給經理寫張條子，說明出現的情況，並希望允許他把舊卷宗檢查一遍，然後將所有不再有用的信件取出加以銷燬。

The next day the he received a note from the manager in answer to his 。 It said ， ’All right ， you have permission to do as you suggest ， but you must make copies of all letters before destroying them 。‘

翻譯：第二天他收到了經理答覆他的便條。便條上說：“行，允許按照你的建議辦，但你在銷燬信件之前，必須將它們全部抄錄一遍。”