【生詞預覽】

plow耕地，gallop飛奔，veterianarian獸醫

【笑話原文】

A Smart Horse

There was a farmer who fell and broke his hip while he was plowing, and his horse immediately galloped five miles to the nearest town and returned, carrying a doctor on his back.

"That’s a pretty smart horse," the farmer’s friend later observed.

"Well, he’s not really so smart," the farmer said. "The doctor he brought back was a veterinarian!"

【中文譯文】

沒有那么聰明

一位農夫在犁田時，不慎跌倒摔傷了屁股，他的馬立即飛奔到五里外最近的小鎮，載了一位醫生回來。一個朋友看到后便夸贊說：“你這匹馬真是聰明！”
農夫說：“也沒有你想的那么聰明啦！它帶來的是一位獸醫！”

【詞匯講解】

1.hip臀部。on the hip處于不利地位。

2.plow耕地。名詞指“犁”。

3.observe評論。也可以指“看到”：We observed that it had turned cloudy.我們注意到天已經變陰了。

4.gallop飛奔。Prices galloped.物價飛漲。

5. veterinarian 獸醫。He is a veterinarian; he is very kind to animals.
他是位獸醫，他對動物們可好了。