As the taxi came to a screeching(尖叫) halt at a traffic light, I asked the driver, "Do you agree that 'Time is money'?""Well, it's a very common saying. Who will care so much about that?" the driver answered."Look, the digits in the meter(儀表) are still running when the car has stopped, "I pointed at the meter."Oh, yes. You've got a point here. In this case, time is money for both of us." added the driver.
英語笑話帶翻譯50字二：
A young man fell into a state of coma, but recovered before his friends had buried him. One of them asked what it felt like to be dead."Dead!" he exclaimed. "I wasn't dead. And I knew I wasn't, because my feet were cold and I was hungry.""But how did that make you sure?""Well, I knew that if I were in heaven I shouldn't be hungry, and if I was in the other place my feet wouldn't be cold."
英語笑話帶翻譯50字三：
Peter was telling a friend that he had just lost his job."Why did the foreman(領班) fire you?" the friend asked in surprise."Oh," Peter said, "you know how foreman are. They stand around with their hands in their pockets watching everybody else work.""We all know that," replied his friend. "But why did he let you go?""Jealousy," answered Pete. "All the other workers thought I was the foreman."