Bằng lòng

American scientists invented a highly advanced thief-catching machine. They tested it in the United States, where it caught five hundred thieves in thirty minutes.

In China, it caught six thousand thieves in ten minutes.

Finally they took it to Vietnam. The scientists waited for a signal: five minutes, ten minutes, thirty minutes. When they went out to check... the machine had been stolen!

Từ vựng trong truyện

• advanced: tiên tiến
• thieves: những tên trộm
• signal: tín hiệu
• stolen: bị đánh cắp

In a women's clothing shop, a man wandered back and forth, inspecting everything without choosing anything. A pretty saleswoman approached and asked whether he needed help.

"I'd like to buy my wife some gloves, but I don't know her size."

"Are her hands about this size?" she asked gently, placing her hand on his.

"Perhaps a little smaller," he replied.

She compared sizes and picked out a pair of gloves. "Do you need anything else?"

"I hadn't planned on it," he answered with a mischievous smile, "but with the way you sell things, I think I need to buy my wife some underwear too."

Từ vựng trong truyện

• wandered: đi loanh quanh
• inspecting: xem xét kỹ
• picked out: chọn ra
• mischievous: láu lỉnh, tinh nghịch

A: "What's got you so deep in thought?"

B: "I've been thinking about something for months, and I still can't make up my mind."

A: "What is it?"

B: "Whether I should take a shower. It's been so cold lately!"

Từ vựng trong truyện

• deep in thought: đang suy tư
• make up my mind: quyết định
• lately: gần đây

A vulgar rich man swaggered into a car showroom. "Find me a truly special BMW—not blue, red, purple, yellow, brown, black, or white..."

"Certainly. We'll order one for you. Please come back later."

"Tell me exactly which day!"

"Any day you like, except weekdays, holidays, and Sundays."

Từ vựng trong truyện

• vulgar: thô lỗ, kém thanh lịch
• swaggered: đi vào với vẻ vênh váo
• showroom: phòng trưng bày bán hàng

A foreigner walked past a man fishing and heard him mutter in Vietnamese, "I've been here all morning and haven't caught a damn thing!"—using the expression 'not even a monkey.'

The foreigner took out a pen and wrote in his notebook:

"In Vietnam, monkeys live underwater."

Từ vựng trong truyện

• mutter: lẩm bẩm
• expression: cách nói; thành ngữ
• underwater: dưới nước