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英语大师上当记
Funny Joke: English Guru Teased
王汝涛 英译
葛传椝教授是我国德高望重的著名英语专家。早在上个世纪40年代，他曾编撰了我国第一部《英语惯用法词典》。出版后，曾赠送好友桂绍盱先生一册并请他提点建议。桂老是英语界老前辈，曾主编《简明英汉词典》，也曾是葛老的上级，在民国时期的影响一度超过葛老。
Prof. Ge Chuangui is a renowned expert in English who
has been held in high esteem by a great many English language learners
throughout China. Back in the 1940s, he compiled the first volume of A
Dictionary of English Usage in China. After the dictionary was published, he
gave a copy to his bosom friend Mr Gui Shaoyu for comments. At the time, Mr Gui
was already one of China’s foremost English scholars and authored The Concise
English-Chinese Dictionary. And, for a time, he was also Ge’s boss and enjoyed
a wider popularity in the Republican period.
几天后，桂老见到葛老说道：“小葛啊，‘Every Jack has his Jill.’(“有情人终成眷属。”),这个你没有收录啊？”葛老答道：“这是谚语，我没有收录”。桂老接着说：“没有收录也好，现在时代变化太快了”。这时桂老从办公桌上拿起了一张英文报纸，让葛老看了上面写的这样一句话：My friend Vet Jackson went on a blind date
with a Mary Jackson yesterday! 然后问道：“你看，到Jack 儿子（Jackson）这一代，也不找Jill了，开始参加相亲啦（blind date)，维特竟然找了个同姓的玛丽，我发现相亲这个词你也没收录啊？”葛老立即回应道：“您此言极是，全怪我疏忽了，不过到了维特这一代也够新潮了”。这时，只听桂老哈哈大笑，得意的说道：“我就知道Vet这个词你也没收录。”这时，葛老委屈地回应道：
