幽默英语笑话带翻译—天气预报

笑话是日常生活中人们消遣娱乐的一种常见语言现象,其目的在于在会话过程中传递和激发幽默感.本文从语用学的角度,通过合作原则和会话含义对英语笑话进行分析,解释了笑话中产生幽默感的原因及如何理解笑话的含义.通过分析,本文得出如下结论:违反合作原则是笑话产生笑点的诱因,而读者根据笑话的内容、语境、常识、推断等所得出的会话含义是笑话产生笑点的真正原因.本文旨在使人们能更好地了解笑话这种喜闻乐见的交流方式,促使人们在日常生活中学会运用笑话,从而在英语学习乃至国际交流中发现乐趣,轻松交流.

A film crew was on location deep in the desert. One day an old Indian went up to the director and said, "It will rain tomorrow." The next day it rained.

一个电影摄制组在沙漠深处进行拍摄。一天，一个印度老人来到导演面前对他说：“明天会下雨。”第二天果然下雨了。

A week later, the Indian went up to the director again and said, "There will be a storm tomorrow." The next day there was a storm.

一周以后，印度人又来了，他告诉导演说：“明天会有暴风雨。”果然，第二天有暴风雨。

"This Indian is incredible," said the director. He told his secretary to hire the Indian to predict the weather.

“这个印度人真神，”导演说。他告诉他的秘书去雇佣这个印度人来预测天气。

However, after several successful predictions, the old Indian didn't show up for two weeks.

然而，几次预测天气成功之后，这个印度人连续两周没有露面。

Finally the director sent for him. "I have to shoot an important scene tomorrow," said the director. "And I'm depending on you. What will the weather be like?"

最后，导演派人把这个印度人请来了。导演对他说：“我明天必须拍摄一个很重要的场景，全都指望你了，明天天气如何啊?”

The Indian shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know," he said. "My radio is broken."

这个印度人耸了耸肩说道：“我不知道，我的收音机坏了。”