英語笑話:A Peddler of Selling Earthen Basins (賣瓦盆的小販)

A peddler sold Earthen basins in the wayside, he chanted as knocked :"Earthen basin is round, beautiful and solid, judging by the sound, they are all good." At the time of his knocking, that earthen basin was broken into pieces with a crack（爆裂聲） . Lookers-on burst into the roars of laughter. He threw the fragments（碎片，殘片） without extra trouble into paddy（稻穀，稻田） field, but an experienced peasant from the crowd did not let him off（放過，不懲罰） easily:" How the deuce （強式特指問句） can you throw them into my field? They’ll impede （妨礙）my growing crops!" The peddler who sold earthen basins tried to explain it away promptly:" Nothing, the fragments will be converted into powder as soon as they absorbed water ."

　　一個小販在路邊賣瓦盆，他一邊敲一邊唱：“瓦盆圓又圓，結實又好看，光聽這聲音，就知不一般。”敲着敲着，“啪啦”一聲，把盆敲爛了。圍觀的人一陣鬨笑。他順手把碎片扔進了稻田裏，誰知人羣中一個老農不幹了：“你怎麼能往我地裏扔？這不影響我種田嗎？” 賣瓦盆的小販連忙辯解：“不要緊，瓦片見水一會兒就粉了。”