Three Reasons
Teacher: John, please give me three reasons why you know the earth is round．
John: Mum says so, Dad says so, and you say so.
三 条 理 由
老师：约翰，请说出三条理由来证实地球是圆的。
约翰：妈妈是这么说的，爸爸是这么说的，你也是这么说的！
Homework
Teacher: I＇m able to read one of the compositions you did for homework, but you wrote the other one very poorly．
Student: Yes, sir——my mother is a much better writer than my father．
家 庭 作 业
老师：我只能读通你的一篇作文，另一篇实在是糟透了。
学生：是的，先生——我妈妈的文采要比我爸爸的好多了。
An Interesting Answer
Student A: Four sailors fell into the sea, but only one of them got his hair wet.
Student B: How was that?
Student A: Three of them were bald.
Who Is It?
A ship was passing by a desert （荒无人烟的） island, where stood a man who was shouting and waving wildly.
“Who is it?” the passengers asked the captain.
“I don’t know. When we pass here every month, he always does the same.”