简短的英语笑话三则

　　If Life Were Like A Computer

　　假如生活是一台电脑

　　You could add/remove someone in your life using the control panel. You could put your kids in the recycle bin and restore them when you feel like it! You could improve your appearance by adjusting the display settings. You could turn off the speakers when life gets too noisy. You could click on “find” (Ctrl, F) to recover your lost remote control and car keys. To get your daily exercise, just click on "run"! If you mess up your life, you could always press "Ctrl, Alt, Delete" and start all over!

　　你可以通过控制面板增加或者删除一些人;可以把孩子放进回收站，然后在你喜欢的时候再还原。可以通过调整显示器的设置让外表更好看;可以在吵闹的时候关掉音箱;可以点击“搜索”找到丢失了的遥控器和车钥匙;锻炼身体的'时候，点击“运行”。要是你的生活一团糟，同时按下“ctrl, alt, delete”键，一切重新开始。

　　He loves chocolate chip cookies

　　他爱吃巧克力块曲奇

　　An old man was laying on his death bed. He had only hours to live when he suddenly smelled chocolate chip cookies. He loved chocolate chip cookies more than anything else in the world. With his last bit of energy, he pulled himself out of bed, across the floor, and to the stairs. Then down the stairs and into the kitchen. There his wife was baking chocolate chip cookies. As he reached for one, he got SMACKED across the back of his hand by the wooden spoon his wife was holding. "Leave them alone!" she said, "They're for the funeral!"

　　老人躺在床上，只能再活几个小时了。突然，他闻到了巧克力块曲奇的味道，他最爱吃这种饼干了。用他最后一点力气，老人翻下床，爬到楼梯那，下楼到了厨房。他老伴正在做巧克力块曲奇。他拿了一块，这时手背被他老伴用木勺打了一下，“放下，”她说，“这是葬礼上用的!”

　　Open-book exam

　　开卷考试

　　ON THE DAY of our final exam at my Community College in Santa Maria, Calif., we heard that the bookstore had changed its policy and would buy back our business-management textbooks. Before class, several of us dashed over to the store and sold our books. We were seated and waiting for the test when our professor announced that considering the difficulty of the final, it would be an open-book exam.

　　我在加利福尼亚的圣玛丽亚市一所社区大学读书。期末考试那天，听说书店在回购我们的工商管理课本。考试前，我们几个赶忙跑到书店把书卖了，随后，我们坐在教室里等着考试。这时候教授宣布：考虑到试题的难度，今天的考试我们决定开卷。