cafeteria自助餐廳或食堂
【笑話原文】
The Way to Keep Away Flies
There was a customer who came and asked a waiter in a cafeteria, "Oh, tell me, Susan, how do you keep all the flies out of your coffee shop?"
So she said, "I just let the flies taste the stuff."
【中文譯文】
食品試吃
有位客人問餐廳的服務(wù)生:“蘇珊,你們店里都沒有蒼蠅,你是怎么做到的?”
蘇珊回答說:“我只是讓蒼蠅先試吃我們的東西。”
【詞匯講解】
1.keep away使遠離。也有“使缺席”的意思:What have kept you away for so long?什么事使你離開這么久?
2.fly蒼蠅。a fly in the ointment 美中不足之處。
3.cafeteria自助餐廳或食堂。In the cafeteria we serve ourselves.在自助餐館我們是自己拿菜的。
4.taste品嘗。也有“品味”的意思:She has excellent taste in dress.她對衣著有極好的鑒賞力。
5.stuff食物。也可以指“材料”: He is not the stuff.他不是這個材料。