【生詞預覽】

alley小巷，predict預言

【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手寫的招貼：“堵住了！不能通過！轉回來有困難。”但是我還是繼續往前開，一直到發現這條小巷的確被一棵倒下的樹堵住了。正如所預言的，我費了好大勁才把卡車調過頭來。當我最后又回到小巷的入口處時，看到了另一個招貼：“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“進入／登場”：Entrance into college was great event in his life.進大學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預言。He predicted a brilliant future for the child.他預言這孩子前程似錦。The weather scientists predicted a cold winter.氣象專家預計冬天會很冷。

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.他終于認識到自己錯了。