标题: ONLY IN USA 的精典现象--看后勿忘。。 [打印本页] 作者: 嬉しい花嫁 时间: 2005-4-17 11:03
标题: ONLY IN USA 的精典现象--看后勿忘。。
Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. <BR>只有在美国。。。比萨饼能比救护车更快到达你的门口<BR><BR>2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a <BR>skating rink. 只有在美国。。。在滑冰场的门口有残疾人的专用停车位<BR><BR>3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to <BR>the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can <BR>buy cigarettes at the front. 只有在美国。。。药店让病人走到最后面去取药，但是健康人却可以在最前面买到烟<BR><BR>4. Only in America......do people order double cheeseburgers, large <BR>fries, and a diet coke.只有在美国。。。人们吃双层汉堡，大薯条，却喝减肥可乐<BR><BR>5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and then chain the <BR>pens to the counters.只有在美国。。。银行让大门敞开，却把笔用链子固定在柜台上<BR><BR>6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in <BR>the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage. <BR>只有在美国。。。人们把价值成千上万的汽车停放在车道上，却把一钱不值的"垃圾"放在车库里<BR><BR>7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to screen calls and <BR>then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from someone we didn't <BR>want to talk to in the first place. 只有在美国。。。人们用电话答录机来屏蔽不想接到的电话，却又有"来电等候"功能，生怕错过一个其实并不想接到的电话<BR><BR>8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in <BR>packages of eight. 只有在美国。。。做热狗的香肠是10个一包，做热狗的面包却是8个一包<BR><BR>9. Only in America......do we use the word 'politics' to describe the <BR>process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning <BR>'bloodsucking creatures'. 只有在美国。。。政治"Politics"这个词真是贴切到了家："Poli"在拉丁语中是"很多" 的意思，而"tics"是"吸血生物" 的意思<BR>