Every Sunday I took my five-year-old daughter on an outing. On the way home one afternoon, we stopped at my mother's. “Where did you go today?” she asked my daughter. “To a horse zoo, Grandma.” “A horse zoo?” “Yea, it was fun. They wore numbers and ran around in a big circle.” “So,” my appalled mother asked, glaring at me, “did Daddy's horse win, place, or show?”
每個星期天我都帶我五歲的女兒出去玩。有一天下午,在回家的路上我們順便去看看我媽。她問我女兒:“你們今天上哪里去了?”“奶奶,我們?nèi)ゴ篑R動物園了?!薄按篑R動物園?”“對,那里可好玩了。那些馬都帶著號碼,繞著一個大圈跑?!蔽覌屢贿吷鷼獾氐芍?,一邊問我女兒:“那你爸爸的馬跑了第一,第二,還是第三?”