Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II. He was a fat and short man. George Bernard Shaw was a famous writer. He was...
Landon had made an unsuccessful attempt at the recitation（背诵，朗诵） , and the doctor, somewhat nettled（刺激，惹恼） , said: Landon, you don't seem to be ge...
At a pre-med university in St. Louis, we had to take a difficult class in physics. One day the professor was discussing a particularly complicated con...
Peter joined the army when he was eighteen, and for several months he was taught how to be a good soldier. He did quite well in everything except shoo...
An Ogden, Iowa, minister was matching coins with a member of his congregation（集会） for a cup of coffee. When asked if that didn't constitute gambli...
Simon was an inveterate（根深的） fisherman, well known for exaggerating the size of the one that got away. But there came a day when he actually caught tw...
There was a customer who came and asked a waiter in a cafeteria: “Oh, tell me, Susan, how do you keep all the flies out of your coffee shop?“So she sa...
A patient said to his doctor, "Doc, please give me something that will stimulate me, excite me, and put me in a, very, very highly stimulated spi...
When a very miserly（吝啬的） man nicknamed the "stingy ghost" died and went to hell, the Yama King reproached（责斥） him, saying, "You stingy ...
The warden of the prison felt sorry for one of his inmates because every weekend on Visitor’s Day, most of the prisoners had family members and ...