The man told his doctor that he wasn't able to do all the things around the house that he used to do.
When the examination was complete, he said, "Now, Doc, I can take it. Tell me in plain English what is wrong with me."
"Well, in plain English," the doctor replied, "you're just lazy."
"OK," said the man. "Now give me the medical term so I can tell my wife."
【Words & Phrases】 term: 専門用語 examination: 診察 complete: 終える can take it: (困難などに)耐える lazy : 怠惰な(性格)
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■医学用語
男は医者に、今までしていた家事のすべてができなくなったと話した。
診察を終えて彼は言った「先生、覚悟はついてます。どこが悪いのか 簡単な言葉でおっしゃってください」
「では、簡単な言葉で言わせてもらうと、」医者は言った。 「あなたは怠け者です」
「わかりました」男は言った。 「じゃあ、妻にいいわけできるように医学用語でお願いします」
……… ★出典:サイト「アメリカン・ジョークに習え!」
■ The Prediction
A woman visited a famous fortune-teller and asked to know her fortune.
The fortune-teller lay out her Tarot cards and after studying them for a few moments, turned to the woman and pronounced, “There is no easy way to say this so I'll come straight to the point. You will soon be a widow. Your husband will die a violent and horrible death in the next six months.”
Shocked, the woman took a few deep breaths to steady herself and hesitated before asking the Tarot reader her next question. Looking the fortune-teller in the eye, she steadied her voice and asked, “Will I get away with it?”
A big-game hunter took his wife and mother-in-law on safari.
One evening, while camping out the jungle, the hunter's wife awoke to find her mother gone. She rushed to wake up her husband and the two started searching for her.
After walking through the jungle for a couple of minutes, came upon a frightening sight: the mother-in-law was backed up against a large tree and a large male lion stood facing her.
”What are we going to do?” the wife cried.
”Nothing,” her husband replied.
”The lion got himself into this mess, let him get himself out of it.”
A man was in his front yard mowing grass when his attractive blonde female neighbor came out of the house and went straight to the mailbox. She opened it, then slammed it shut and stormed back in the house. A little later she came out of her house again, went to the mail box and again, opened it, slammed it shut again.
Angrily, back into the house she went. As the man was getting ready to edge the lawn, here she came out again, marched to the mail box, opened it and then slammed it closed harder than ever.
Puzzled by her actions the man asked her, "Is something wrong?" To which she replied, "There certainly is. My stupid computer keeps saying, 'YOU'VE GOT MAIL'!!!"
A lady inserted an advertisement in the classifieds column of the newspaper saying "Husband Wanted".
The next day, her letterbox was overflowing with letters.
They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
【Words & Phrases】 insert:書き入れる advertisement:広告 classified ad (求人・求職などの)数行広告 letterbox:郵便受けの箱 overflowing:入りきれずにあふれる
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■ 夫探し
ある女性が新聞の案内欄に「夫求む」という広告を載せた。
次の日、彼女の郵便ボックスは手紙でいっぱいになった。
手紙にはすべて同じことが書かれていた:「私の(夫)をあげるわ。」
……… ★出典:サイト「アメリカン・ジョークに習え!」
■ Secret to a long marriage
An elderly couple was well known in little town for their long and happy marriage. On the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary, a local newspaper reporter asked them what their secret was.
“Well, it dates back to our honeymoon,” the husband explained.
“We visited the Grand Canyon and rode mules down to the bottom of the canyon. A short way down, my wife's mule stumbled and she quietly said, ‘That's once.’ We rode on a little further when the mule stumbled again. My wife murmured ‘That's twice.’ After another three or four hundred metres, the mule stumbled a third time, at which my wife promptly removed a revolver from her pocket and shot him.”
”I was shocked, and started to protest over her treatment of the mule when she looked at me and quietly said, 'That's once.'”
Two software programmers meet in the park for lunch.
First Software programmer, "Hey where did you get that great mountain bike? I bet it cost you a pretty penny?"
Second programmer, "It was free!!"
First programmer, "How did you get it free?"
Second programmer, "The other day I came to this park to eat and this really beautiful woman rode up. She jumped off the bike, took off all her clothes, and said 'you can have anything you want!'"
First programmer, "You were right to take the bike. I bet none of her clothes would've fit you."
【Words & Phrases】 nerdy: マヌケな、ださい、オタク的な outlook:見解 programmer:プログラマー bike:自転車 I bet~:~に違いない cost:お金がかかる、費用 pretty penny:かなりの金額、大金 jump off:(自転車から)飛び降りる took off:脱いだ right:正しい、正当
It was Grandpa's 100th birthday and everybody who gathered for the occasion complimented him on how youthful and athletic he looked.
"Do you want to know my secret?" he chuckled.
"My wife and I were married 80 years ago, and on our wedding night, we made each other a promise. Whenever we had a fight, the one who was proved wrong would go outside and take a walk."
"Well," he continued, "I have been walking out in the open air day after day for some 80 years now."
As I was trying to pack for vacation, my 3-year-old daughter was having a wonderful time playing on the bed. At one point, she said, "Mom, look at this," and stuck out two of her fingers.
Trying to keep her entertained, I reached out and stuck her fingers in my mouth and said, "Mommy gonna eat your fingers!" pretending to eat them before I rushed out of the room again.
When I returned, my daughter was standing on the bed staring at her fingers with a devastated look on her face. I said,
"What's wrong, honey?"
"Mommy, where's my booger?"
【Words & Phrases】 at one point:ある時点で stick out:目立たせる entertain:楽しませる reach out:手を伸ばす pretend:~のふりをする devastated:困惑した booger:鼻くそ
A businessman walks into a bar and sits down next to a drunk who is closely examining something held in his fingers.
After watching the drunk for a few minutes, the businessman's curiosity gets the better of him and he asks what the drunk is holding. “Well,” says the drunk, “it looks like plastic and feels like rubber.”
”Give it to me,” the businessman says, taking it from the drunk. He rolls the substance between his thumb and forefinger examining it closely.
“Hmmm,” he says at last. “It does look like plastic and feel like rubber but I have no idea what it is. Where did you get it?”
Rita had recently lost her husband, Steve, so went to her local newspaper to organize an obituary.
The newsman, who had been an acquaintance of Steve's gave Rita his condolences and then explained to her that obituaries were a dollar a word.
Rita thanked him for his kind words and then explained that she only had two dollars. She wrote out the obituary “Steve died” and handed it over to the newsman.
The newsman thought Steve deserved more than this, and told Rita she could have three more words free of charge.
Rita thanked him profusely and thought for a couple of minutes before rewriting the obituary, “Steve died. Boat for sale.”
Three racehorses were gathered in a stable, boasting about their track records.
“I've won seven of my last fifteen races!” the first one boasts.
The second one replies, “That's nothing! I've won twenty of my last twenty five races.”
“Well, that's rather impressive,” the third horse sniffs, “But I've won thirty of my last thirty four races.”
At this point they notice a greyhound who has been sitting listening to their conversation. “I don't mean to boast,” the greyhound says, “But of my last 90 races, I've won 89 of them!”
The horses are astonished. After a hushed silence, one of them speaks up. “Wow, a talking dog!”
A couple had been married for 25 years and also celebrated their 60th birthdays. During the celebration a fairy appeared and said that because they had been such a loving couple all those years, she would give them one wish each. The wife wanted to travel around the world.
The fairy waved her wand and Boom!
She had the tickets in her hand.
Next, it was the husband's turn. He paused for a moment, then said shyly, "Well, I'd like to have a woman 30 years younger than me."
英文内の"before the alarm went of"という表現は 「目覚ましが鳴る前に」という訳になります。
■ Weigh Scales
An irate woman burst into the baker`s shop and said, "I sent my son in for two pounds of cookies this morning, but when I weighed them there was only one pound. I suggest that you check your scales."
The baker looked at her calmly for a moment or two and then replied, "And I, Madam, suggest that you weigh your son."
A highly successful lawyer was parking his new Mercedes. As he got out, a truck passed too close and tore off the driver’s side door. Furious, the lawyer immediately called the police on his cell phone, and minutes later, an officer arrived.
Before the officer had a chance to say anything, the lawyer started ranting and raving. His Mercedes was badly damaged and no amount of repair could restore it to its original state.
As the lawyer finally finished his tirade, the officer shook his head in disbelief. “I cannot believe how materialistic you lawyers are,” he said in disgust. “You worry about your possessions so much that you don’t notice anything else.
“What are you talking about?” asked the lawyer.
“Look at your left arm,” the cop said. “It’s missing from the elbow down. It must have been torn off when the truck hit you.”
“Jill,” Hillary asked, “What would you do if you caught your husband with another woman?”
Jill thought for a minute then replied, “Well, I'd break her cane, kill her guide dog and then call a cab to take her back to the institution where she escaped from”
I remember one time when I was home visiting my folks. My mom asked me to set the table for dinner. I opened the refrigerator and taped to the inside of the door was a risqu・picture of a lovely, slender, perfectly built, but scantily-clad young woman. "Mom, what's this?" I asked.
"Oh, I put that up there to remind me not to overeat," she answered.
"Is it working?" I asked.
"Yes and no," she explained. "I've lost 15 pounds, but your dad has gained 20!"