| You can listen to thunder and tell how close you came to getting hit. |
If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind.
你可以聽見雷聲而知道就會快被雷擊到.如果你沒聽見雷聲,而被擊中,算你倒楣.
| To keep milk from turning sour, keep it in the cow. |
要使牛奶不變酸,最好是把牛奶儲存在母牛身上.
| Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, |
but I have never been able to make out the numbers.
有些人一看太陽就知道幾點鐘,可是我總沒辦法看出上面有數字.
| Genetics explains why you look llike your father and, |
if you don't,why you should.
基因學解釋你為何長得像你爸.如果你不像他,就解釋為何你應當像他.
| The cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. |
Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
香水會消失是因為蒸發.很多人常埋怨蒸發這東西,其實是自己忘記蓋蓋子.
| When Planets run around and around in circles,we say they are orbiting, |
When people do it, we say they are crazy.
當行星繞著圈子一直轉,就叫軌道運轉,但如果有人這樣做,我們就叫他神經病.
| For asphyziation, apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead. |
有人窒息怎麼辦?就實行人工呼吸,直到病人死去.
| Someday, we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction. |
也許有一天,我們會發明一種會指向任何方向的磁鐵.
| There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are not yet to be discovered. |
維他命一共有26種,但有些字母還未發現.
| It is so hot in some places that people there have to live in other places. |
有些地方很熱,因此那邊的人就必須住到別處去.
