Fire!

This is a true story. In England there was a high official

who hired a servant to attend to him. In those days,

only people who had power and wealth could smoke.

The rest did not even know what tobacco was.

The servant came for the first time and saw the official

sitting by the stove smoking. This servant was from

the countryside and had never seen anyone smoking before.

When he saw smoke coming out from his master's

nose and mouth , he thought that there was a fire.

He was about to serve his master some tea but

when he saw the situation, he poured the tea up

his master's nose , and cried out aloud, "Fire! Fire! Fire!"

「救火啊！」

　這是真的故事，在英國有一個當(dāng)大官的，他請了一個傭人

來侍候他。在那個時候，只有比較有權(quán)力、有錢的人才能夠抽煙，

別人都不知道煙是什么。傭人第一次來，看到他坐在火爐旁邊抽煙；

那個傭人是從鄉(xiāng)下來的，從來沒有看過人抽煙；當(dāng)他看見煙從主人

的鼻子和嘴巴跑出來，他認(rèn)為是火燒了，他剛好要端茶給主人喝，

看到他這個樣子，就把茶倒進(jìn)他鼻孔里面去，還在那邊呼喚：

「救火啊！救火啊！救火啊！」，對啊！真的好無聊，

機(jī)器才會冒煙，人怎么會冒煙呢？是不是？