【生詞預覽】

Ohio俄亥俄州，brag吹噓，orbit在軌道上運行

【笑話原文】

Oh, Ohio

I brag about my home state of Ohio whenever I have a chance. One day, I told a friend, “You know, the first man in powered flight was from Ohio. The first man to orbit the earth was from Ohio. And the first man on the moon was from Ohio.”

“Sounds like a lot of people are trying to get out of Ohio,” he observed.

【中文譯文】

噢，俄亥俄

只要一有機會，我就會吹噓我的故鄉俄亥俄。有一天，我對一個朋友說：“你瞧，第一個用動力飛行的人是俄亥俄人；第一個繞地球軌道飛行的人也是俄亥俄人；第一個登上月球的人還是俄亥俄人。”

他的評論是：“看來好多人都想離開俄亥俄。”

【詞匯講解】

1.brag吹噓。Mary bragged that she could run faster than Jack.瑪麗夸口說她比杰克跑得快。I feel ashamed because there is nothing to brag about.我覺得非常丟臉，因為沒什么好吹牛的。

2.Ohio俄亥俄州（美國州名）。

3.powered有動力裝置的。A powered vessel should give way to sail—it is an unwritten rule of the sea.機動船在遇到帆船時必須讓其先行, 這是一條不成文的航海規則。

4.orbit在…軌道上運行, 環繞軌道運行。A plane orbited over the landing field.有一架飛機在機場上空盤旋。

5.get out逃出。They could not find a way to get themselves out.他們無法找到一條逃生之路。“(天氣)變得(晴朗等)”：It got out very fine.天氣變得很好。“作出，完成”：They managed to get the plans out on time.他們總算按時訂出了計劃。

6.observe評論。He observed that the house seemed to be too small.
他說那房子似乎小了一點兒。“看出”：Didn’t you observe the difference?難道你沒有看出差別？