Truyện cười song ngữ

A man arrived at a year-end gathering. The others offered him a drink.

"Would you like a glass?"

"No, I have to drive."

"Then why didn't you leave the car at home?"

"I thought about it, but I was afraid I'd arrive too late and there'd be nothing left to drink."

Từ vựng trong truyện

• year-end gathering: buổi họp mặt cuối năm
• offered: mời; đề nghị
• left: còn lại

The doctor took Dan into a room and said, "Dan, I have good news and bad news."

"Tell me the good news," Dan said.

"They're going to name a disease after you."

Từ vựng trong truyện

• bad news: tin xấu
• name a disease after you: đặt tên một căn bệnh theo tên anh

A member of a cannibal tribe was dragging someone home. A friend saw him and asked, "Who have you caught?"

"A university student."

"What? Another student? Let him go!"

"Why?"

"I caught one yesterday. When I put him in the pot, he ate all the potatoes before the water even came to a boil!"

Từ vựng trong truyện

• cannibal tribe: bộ lạc ăn thịt người
• dragging: kéo lê
• came to a boil: bắt đầu sôi

A woman told a friend that she had just married for the fourth time.

"Wonderful!" her friend said. "But if you don't mind my asking, what happened to your first husband?"

"He ate poisonous mushrooms and died."

"How tragic! And your second husband?"

"He ate poisonous mushrooms too."

"How awful! I'm almost afraid to ask about your third husband."

"He died of a broken neck."

"A broken neck?"

"He wouldn't eat the mushrooms!"

Từ vựng trong truyện

• poisonous: có độc
• tragic: bi thảm
• awful: kinh khủng
• broken neck: gãy cổ

Wife: "Why aren't you watering our garden?"

Husband: "Can't you see it's pouring with rain?"

Wife: "Then put on a raincoat! Why are you so lazy?"

Từ vựng trong truyện

• watering: tưới nước
• pouring with rain: mưa như trút nước
• raincoat: áo mưa