英語笑話:馬有什么毛病嗎？
ad廣告，saddle馬鞍，birdle韁繩，inadvertently粗心大意地，comma逗號，Erroneously錯(cuò)誤地
【笑話原文】
What's wrong with your horse?
After his beloved horse died, a man wanted to place an ad in the newspaper like this: Horse saddle and bridle for $50.
Inadvertently the paper added a comma to the ad, which read instead: Horse, saddle and bridle for $50.
Immediately someone responded to the ad, “That's an awfully cheap price for a horse, "said the caller, “What's wrong with your horse?”
“Well, he is dead, " replied the man who placed the erroneously typed ad.
【中文譯文】
馬有什么毛病嗎?
一個(gè)人衷愛的馬死了，他打算在報(bào)紙上刊登一則廣告：50元賣馬鞍和馬韁繩。無意中報(bào)紙?jiān)趶V告語中加了個(gè)逗號，讀起來變成：50元賣馬，馬鞍和馬韁繩。
馬上就有人詢問這則廣告，這馬的價(jià)格真是太便宜了，詢問者說，馬有什么毛病嗎?哦，它是死的，撰寫這條廣告的人回答道。
【詞匯講解】
1.beloved 所鐘愛的。 She was beloved of all who knew her. 認(rèn)識她的人都喜歡她。
2.ad 廣告，是advertisement的縮寫，口語中通常都用ad來代替advertisement。
3.inadvertently粗心大意地。詞根是advertent注意的，而加上前綴in-后就表示反義“粗心的”的意思了。
4.add…to 給…加上…。常用的表達(dá)還有ad up to,是“合計(jì)達(dá)到…”的意思，例如：What do all the arguments add up to ?所有的論據(jù)歸結(jié)起來說明
了什么?
5.comma，逗號?；仡櫼幌掠⒄Z中標(biāo)點(diǎn)的說法：full stop句號;quotation marks引號;question mark問號;colon冒號
6.erroneously錯(cuò)誤地。形容詞是erroneous，例如：receive an erroneous impression得到錯(cuò)誤的印象;erroneous assumptions錯(cuò)誤的假設(shè)。
