There were countless jokes about xiucai 秀才, here is one of them. I don't know the origin of the derogatory term 秃驴 for monks.
一日，秀才行路遇一和尚，秀才问：“师傅，请教秃驴的秃字怎么写？” 和尚答：“秀才的秀字歪歪屁股就成了！”
One day, a scholar met a monk on the road, "Shifu," the scholar asked, can you please tell me how to write the word tu 秃(as in bald donkey)?" "Just wiggle your butt," the monk replied.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Sleeping pills
I don't think that Indigo understood fully the sentence "可是即使好不容易捉到一只", but it's not too bad.
颜容憔悴的病人对医生说：“我家窗外的野狗整夜吠个不休，我简直要疯了！”医生给他开了安眠药。一星期后，病人又来了，看上去样子比上次更疲惫。医生问：“安眠药无效吗？”病人无精打采道：“我每晚去追那些狗，可是即使好不容易捉到一只，它怎么也不肯吃安眠药。”
A guant-eyed patient walked up to the doctor and said, "The wild dog outside my window never ceases its yapping,i'm going crazy!"The doctor gave the patient a prescription.A week later,the patient came back,and he looked ten times more tired than last time."The sleeping potion didn't work?" the doctor inquired.The patient replied tiredly, "Every night I chase (to catch) those dogs, but it's very hard to catch any of them, they just absolutely refuse to eat the sleep potion."
The second time looked better
A guant-eyed patient walked up to the doctor and said, "The wild dog outside my window never ceases its yapping, i'm going crazy!" The doctor gave the patient a prescription.
A week later, the patient came back, and he looked ten times more tired than last time.
"The sleeping potion didn't work?" the doctor inquired. The patient replied tiredly, "Every night I try to catch those dogs, but even if I catch one of them, no matter what I do, it'll refuse to eat the sleep potion."
颜容憔悴的病人对医生说：“我家窗外的野狗整夜吠个不休，我简直要疯了！”医生给他开了安眠药。一星期后，病人又来了，看上去样子比上次更疲惫。医生问：“安眠药无效吗？”病人无精打采道：“我每晚去追那些狗，可是即使好不容易捉到一只，它怎么也不肯吃安眠药。”
A guant-eyed patient walked up to the doctor and said, "The wild dog outside my window never ceases its yapping,i'm going crazy!"The doctor gave the patient a prescription.A week later,the patient came back,and he looked ten times more tired than last time."The sleeping potion didn't work?" the doctor inquired.The patient replied tiredly, "Every night I chase (to catch) those dogs, but it's very hard to catch any of them, they just absolutely refuse to eat the sleep potion."
The second time looked better
A guant-eyed patient walked up to the doctor and said, "The wild dog outside my window never ceases its yapping, i'm going crazy!" The doctor gave the patient a prescription.
A week later, the patient came back, and he looked ten times more tired than last time.
"The sleeping potion didn't work?" the doctor inquired. The patient replied tiredly, "Every night I try to catch those dogs, but even if I catch one of them, no matter what I do, it'll refuse to eat the sleep potion."
A leaky pot
I was on vacation for a week, so Indigo got a break ;-). Anyway, here's one of her homework.
有一个男人从家里拿了一个罐子到市场上去卖。一个人看了一下对他说：“这罐是漏的。”“怎么可能呢？”他说，“我母亲一直用它装棉花，从没漏过。这罐子不漏。”
A man went to the bazaar to sell a jar. One person saw this and said to the man, "The jar has a leak." "How can that be?"the man asked, "My mother always stuffed it with cotton,and it never leaked. This jar doesn't leak."
有一个男人从家里拿了一个罐子到市场上去卖。一个人看了一下对他说：“这罐是漏的。”“怎么可能呢？”他说，“我母亲一直用它装棉花，从没漏过。这罐子不漏。”
A man went to the bazaar to sell a jar. One person saw this and said to the man, "The jar has a leak." "How can that be?"the man asked, "My mother always stuffed it with cotton,and it never leaked. This jar doesn't leak."
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