在邊境車站
A train stopped at a French border station. Thepassengers opened their trunks, and waited for theinspection of their things. One of the passengers infirst-class carriage took a lot of boxes of cigarettesout of his trunk and wanted to put all of them intohis pockets.
一列火車停在法國邊境車站。旅客們都打開自己的皮箱,等待檢查。頭等車廂的一個乘客從他的皮箱里拿出許多盒香煙,想把它們全部裝進自己的口袋。
When his pockets were already full of cigarettes and he could not put any more into them, hesaid to another man who was at the window:
他的口袋已經裝滿了香煙,再也裝不進去了,他就對坐在窗口的一個人說:
"Will you please take some of these boxes and put them into your pockets?"
“請你拿上幾盒煙放到你口袋里好嗎?”
"Why don't you leave them in your trunk?" asked the other passenger.
“你為什么不放在皮箱里呢?”那個乘客問道。
"Because I don't want to pay duty on them," answered the first passenger.
“因為我不想交稅。”第一個乘客說。
"All right," said the passenger at the window. "Give them to me. But I must tell you now that Ishall not return them to you."
“好吧,”窗口的那個乘客說,“把它們給我??墒俏椰F在必須告訴你,我不會還你了。”
"Why?"
“為什么?”
"Because I am a French customs officer."
“因為我是法國海關官員。”