按照这个定义,可把笑话分成三个熟悉的子类别:第一类是语音层次上的笑话,或叫俏皮话(类似“脑筋急转弯”一类的笑话),如:“高尔夫球手为什么穿两条裤子?”
Thankfully, that definition, though mildly humorous in its way, can be subdivided into three more familiar categories: Phonological jokes, or puns " Why did the golfer wear two sets of pants?"
奥尔森提到,以前有一个应聘者申请通讯类的一个管理岗位,结果却用一个粗俗的笑话把老板惹毛了。
Olson recalled a candidate for a communications executive position who rubbed an employer in the wrong way with an off-color joke.
第一类是那些我希望记住的东西,如笑话,任何有关学术的知识;第二类是我希望忘却的东西,比如,我曾写过一封措词粗鲁的电子邮件,骂我的老板,还错发给了他;
There are the things I would like to remember - jokes, anything scholarly and so on - and those I would like to forget, such as the rude email I once wrote about my boss and sent to him by mistake.
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