【生詞預覽】

schedule安排， lunar eclipse月蝕

【笑話原文】

Scheduled Lunar Eclipse

A listener called the disc jockey on the air at our radio station to ask about the upcoming lunar eclipse. “The eclipse can be seen at 1:30 in the morning,” the DJ told her. “That late?” the listener snapped. “I don’t know why they don’t schedule these things earlier, so kids can enjoy them too!”

【中文譯文】

安排好的月蝕

一位聽眾現場打電話給我們廣播電臺的節目主持人，問即將來臨的月蝕。節目主持人告訴她：“月蝕可以在凌晨一點半的時候看到。”那位聽眾厲聲說：“那么晚？我真不明白他們為什么不把這些事情安排得早一點，好讓孩子們也能一起欣賞！”

【詞匯講解】

1.schedule安排。 The secretary is trying to schedule the month's appointments.秘書正在設法安排這個月的約會。

2.lunar月球的。 May 5th of the a Chinese lunar calendar is the Dragon Boat Festival.陰歷五月初五是中國的端午節。

3.eclipse（日、月）食。也可以指“黯然失色”： During the seventies, her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代, 她的表演生涯黯然失色。

4.DJ disc jockey流行音樂播音員。VJ: (Video Jockey) 電視綜藝節目主持人

5.snap厲聲說。也有“拍快照”的意思： The photographer snapped a nice photograph of him.攝影師給他拍了一張很棒的快照。