看笑语学英语：举止一定要像夫人们一样
[size=5][color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]A little girl from the East Side was invited to a garden party given by a very aristocratic lady to a group of little East-Siders.[/font][/color][color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]The little girl, as she drank her tea and ate her plum-cake on a velvet lawn under a white-blooming cherry tree, said to her hostess:[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"Does your husband drink?"[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"Why-er-no, not to excess," was the astonished reply.[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"How much does he make?"[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"He doesn't work, " said the lady. "He is a capitalist."[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"You keep out of debt, I hope?"[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"Of course, child. What on earth do you mean by all these impudent questions?"[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"Impudent?" said the little girl. "Why, Ma'am, Mother told me to be sure and behave like a lady, and when ladies call at our rooms they always question Mother like that."[/font][/color][/size][size=5]
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[/size] [size=4][color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]A little girl from the East Side was invited to a garden party given by a very aristocratic lady to a group of little East-Siders.[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]The little girl, as she drank her tea and ate her plum-cake on a velvet lawn under a white-blooming cherry tree, said to her hostess:[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"Does your husband drink?"[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"Why-er-no, not to excess," was the astonished reply.[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"How much does he make?"[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"He doesn't work, " said the lady. "He is a capitalist."[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"You keep out of debt, I hope?"[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"Of course, child. What on earth do you mean by all these impudent questions?"[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]"Impudent?" said the little girl. "Why, Ma'am, Mother told me to be sure and behave like a lady, and when ladies call at our rooms they always question Mother like that."[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]一个住在城东贫民区的小女孩获得邀请，参加一位贵妇人为城东贫民区的孩子们举行的花园晚会。[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,] 在一棵开满了白色小花儿的樱桃树下，小女孩坐在柔软的草地上，一边品尝着她的茶和梅子蛋糕，一边对贵妇人说：[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]“你的丈夫酗酒吗？”[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,]“呃，呃，不，他喝得不多。”夫人一脸惊诧。[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,] “他挣多少钱？”[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,] “他不工作，”夫人回答说，“他是个资本家。”[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,] “我希望你们没有负债吧？”[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,] “当然没有，孩子。你问这么些无礼的问题到底是想说什么呢？”[/font][/color]
[color=#444444][font=Tahoma,] “无礼？”小女孩说，“怎么会呢，夫人？妈妈要我的举止一定要像夫人们一样，当她们到我们家做客的时候，她们总是那样问我妈妈的。”[/font][/color][/size][size=4]
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