一词多义的英语笑话篇.pptxVIP

1.You are just a fool. I can’t bear you.  -- But your mother can.（homonymy）2.（In a restaurant）--Waiter, the eggs must have gone bad. --Sorry, I only laid the table.（polysemy）3.Farmer: If you want to spend the night here, youll have to make your own bed. Traveling salesman: Thats perfectly all right.Farmer: Heres a hammer and saw. Good night.（polysemy）4.We can’t get down from elephants. We can only get down from ducks（homonymy）第1页/共13页第一页，共14页。 5.Marriage is an institution where a man loses his bachelor’s degree and a woman gets her masters.（homonymy）6.--If you want my daughter to marry you. You should at least tell me one thing positive about you. --I am HIV positive.（polysemy）7.Ugly woman: Don’t you think I’m beautiful? Photographe: The answer lies in the negative.（homonymy）8.Your brain has two parts, the left part and the right part. The right part has nothing left, and the left part has nothing right.——Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? ——Hes all right now（homonymy）第2页/共13页第二页，共14页。 9.Tourists want to find someone to take pictures Tourists: Excuse me! Are you free? prostitute:Of course not. Im not free. Tourists: why? prostitute:Im 200 hundred RMB for one night, or 30 dollars for whole day（polysemy）10.A young boy goes to social services and tells them he has nowhere to live. What about your parents? asks the social worker. No, they beat me,says the boy. What about your grandparents? says the social worker.No, they beat me even harder! says the boy. Well...where do you want to stay then? replies the social worker. Tottenham, says the boy. They dont beat anyone.（polysemy）11.A drunk guy approaches a cute girl in a singles bar. Hi Babe, how about a date? He says. Dont waste your time. I never go out with a perfect stranger. It seems we are both in luck. Im far from perfect.（polysemy）第3页/共13页第三页，共14页。 12.A rich man went to his lawyer and said “I would like to make a will but I dont know exactly how to go about it.”The la