【生詞預(yù)覽】

alley小巷，predict預(yù)言

【笑話原文】

Told You So

On my way to deliver a computer to a customer, I saw a handwritten sign at the entrance of an alley. It read, “Blocked! Can not pass! Difficult to turn back.” I continued anyway, only to discover that the alley was indeed blocked by a fallen tree. As predicted, it took a while to turn the trunk around. When I eventually got back to the entrance, I noticed a second sign. It read, “Told you so!”

【中文譯文】

告訴過你了

在給顧客送電腦的途中，我看到一條小巷的入口貼了一個(gè)手寫的招貼：“堵住了！不能通過！轉(zhuǎn)回來有困難。”但是我還是繼續(xù)往前開，一直到發(fā)現(xiàn)這條小巷的確被一棵倒下的樹堵住了。正如所預(yù)言的，我費(fèi)了好大勁才把卡車調(diào)過頭來。當(dāng)我最后又回到小巷的入口處時(shí)，看到了另一個(gè)招貼：“告訴你，你不信！”

【詞匯講解】

1.entrance入口。entrance也有很多其他含義，比如“進(jìn)入／登場”：Entrance into college was great event in his life.進(jìn)大學(xué)是他一生中的重大事件。The actor’s entrance was greeted with applause.那位演員在掌聲中登場。

2.alley在文中指“小巷”。也有“小徑”、“球道”、“狹長地帶”等意思。

3.turn back往回走。turn back a ticket退票；The travelers were turned back at the frontier.游客在邊境被擋了回來。“翻回”：Turn back to page ten, please.請翻回到第十頁。“翻起”：Don’t turn back the corner of the page to mark your place.別折書角來作讀到哪里的記號。

4.predict預(yù)言。He predicted a brilliant future for the child.他預(yù)言這孩子前程似錦。The weather scientists predicted a cold winter.氣象專家預(yù)計(jì)冬天會很冷。

5.trunk樹干。也可以指“主體”：a colony breaking away from the trunk of the British Empire脫離大英帝國主體的一塊殖民地

6.eventually終于。He eventually retired from business.他終于退休了。He eventually saw that he was mistaken.他終于認(rèn)識到自己錯(cuò)了。