校園笑話：8、 Greek 希臘語

8. Greek

Mr. Day was a teacher at a school in a big city in the north of England. He usually went to France or Germany for a few weeks during his summer holidays, and he spoke French and German quite well.

But one year Mr. Day said to one of his colleagues, "I'm going to have a holiday in Athens1. But I don't speak Greek, so I'll go to evening classes and have Greek lessons for a month before I go." He studied very hard for a month, and then his holidays began and he went to Greece.

When he came back a few weeks later, his colleague said to him, "Did you have any trouble with your Greek when you were in Athens, Dick?"

No, I didn't have any trouble with it. answered Mr. Day. "But the Greeks did!"

Notes:

1. Greek 希臘人，希臘語

2. Athens 雅典

希臘語

戴先生是英格蘭北部一個大城市里的中學(xué)教師。暑假期間他通常到法國或德國去度幾周的假，他的法語和德語都講得相當好。

然而有一年，戴先生對他的一位同事說：“我準備上雅典去度假?？墒俏也粫v希臘語，所以去雅典前我將先去夜校進修一個月的希臘語課程?！彼苡霉Φ貙W(xué)了一個月后，他的假期也接著開始了，于是他就去了希臘。

幾周后，他回來了。他的同事問他說：“迪克，你在雅典時，使用希臘語有沒有遇到困難？”

戴先生回答說：“沒有，我的希臘語用來得心應(yīng)手，倒是那些希臘人遇到了麻煩?！?

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希臘語，廣泛用于希臘、阿爾巴尼亞、塞浦路斯等國以及土耳其包括小亞細亞一帶的某些地區(qū)。它是西方文明第一種偉大的語言，被許多人視為所有語言中最有效、最值得敬佩的交際工具。由于結(jié)構(gòu)清楚、概念透徹清晰，加上有多種表達方式，它既適合嚴謹?shù)乃枷爰业男枰?，又滿足有才華的詩人的要求。