| A famous writer who was vistiting Japan was invited to have a lecture at a university to a large group of students. As most of them could not understand spoken English, he had to have an interpreter.
during his lecture he told an amusing story which went on for rather a long time. at last he stopped to allow the interpreter to translate it into Japanese, and was very surprised when the man did this in a few seconds, afteer which all the students laughed loudly.
After the lecture, the writer thanked the interprter for his good work and then said to him, "Now please tell me how you translated that long story of mine into such a short Japances one."
"I didn't tell the story at all, " the interpreter anwered with a smile. "I just said, "The honourable lecturer has just told a funny story. You will all laugh, please." |
一位在日本访问的著名作家被邀到一所大学为一大群学生演讲。因为他们中大多数人不懂英语口语，作家不得不请了一名翻译。
在演讲中，他用了相当长的一段时间讲了一个有趣的故事。最后他停下来让翻译把它译成日语。他感到非常奇怪的是，翻译只用了几秒种就翻译完了，而学生们都大声笑了起来。
演讲之后，作家非常感谢这位翻译的出色工作并说：“请告诉我，你是怎把我那么长的一个日语故事译得如此简短了？”
“我根本就没有讲这个故事，"这位翻译微笑着回答说，我只不过说尊敬的演讲者刚才讲了一个很可笑的日语故事，请你们大家笑一下。” |
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