Pocket English - Английский на каждый день - 5 августа 2013
Анекдоты
A patient came to his dentist with problems with his teeth.
Patient: Doctor, I have yellow teeth, what do I do?
Dentist: Wear a brown tie!
Слова для запоминания:
teeth - зубы tie - галстук
As the doctor completed an examination of the patient, he said,
"I can't find a cause for your complaint. Frankly, I think it's due to drinking."
"In that case," said the patient, "I'll come back when you're sober".
Слова для запоминания:
sober - трезвый cause - причина complaint - жалоба
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows." The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass
monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long. Rain has never
been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile. A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.