That‘s Creative
Being the office supervisor, I had to have a word with a new employee who never arrived at work on time. I explained that her tardiness was unacceptable and that other employees had noticed that she was walking in late every day. After listening to my complaints, she agreed that this was a problem and even offered a solution. “Is there another door I could use?”
翻译：
——有创意
我是办公室主管，有一次，我不得不跟一个从来不准时上班的新员工谈了一次话。 我向她解释说，她迟到的毛病是无法让人接受的，而且其他员工已经注意到她每天上班都迟到。 听了我的抱怨之后，她同意迟到是个问题，甚至还提供了一个解决方案。“有没有别的门我可以走”？
Please speak English
I‘m a high school geometry teacher and I started one lesson on triangles by reading a theorem. “If an angle is an exterior angle of a triangle, then its measure is greater than the measure of either of its corresponding remote interior angles.”
I noticed that one student wasn‘t taking notes and asked him why. “Well,” he replied sincerely, “I‘m waiting until you start speaking English.”
翻译：
——请讲英语
我是一名高中几何老师，一天要教三角形，我通过读一个定理来开始这节课： “如果一个角是一个三角形的外角，它的度数比与它对应的不相邻的2个远内角中的任一个的度数都要大”。
这时，我发现一个学生没有做笔记，于是问他为什么不做，“呃”，他真诚地回答，“我得等到你开始说英语时，我才开始做笔记”。
Get closer to the sun
Tourists ask a lot of questions as we travel between the Hawaiian Islands on my charter boat. Some people wanted to know, “Does the water go all the way around the island?” Another asked, “How much further until we‘re in the ocean?” But the one that made me want to jump overboard was, “Can you please take the boat closer to the sunset?”
翻译：
——离太阳近一点
我们的游艇在夏威夷群岛间穿梭游玩时，游客们问了很多问题。 一些人想知道，“海岛的四周都是水吗？” 另一个会问，“还要走多远我们才到达大海？” 但是，让我听到想跳海的一个问题是，“你能不能把船开到离日落近一点地方？”
Come in an envelope
Torrential rainstorms were knocking down power lines all over town. That meant, as a customer service rep for the electric company, I was dispatching repairmen right and left. When one lineman called a customer to get her exact address, he was told, “I‘m at Post Office Box 99.”
The weary lineman replied, “Ma‘am, I‘ll be coming to you in a truck, not an envelope.”
翻译：
——坐信封过来
暴雨正对我们镇上的电线线路进行肆意摧残。那意味着，我作为一名电力公司的客户服务代表就得不停地向各处派出维修人员。当一个线路工给一个顾客打电话要确切地址时，他被告之，“我就在99号邮箱那里”。
已筋疲力尽的电线工回答，“女士，我是坐卡车来的，不是坐信封”。
