英語短笑話:無禮的問題

Impudent Questions

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.

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:

Does your husband drink?

Why-er-no, not to excess, was the astonished reply.

How much does he make?

He doesn't work, said the lady. He is a capitalist.

You keep out of debt, I hope?

Of course, child. What on earth do you mean by all these impudent questions?

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.無禮的問題

一個住在城東貧民區的小女孩獲得邀請，參加一位貴婦人爲城東貧民區的孩子們舉行的花園晚會。

在一棵開滿了白色小花兒的櫻桃樹下，小女孩坐在柔軟的草地上，一邊品嚐着她的茶和梅子蛋糕，一邊對貴婦人說：你的丈夫酗酒嗎？ 呃，呃，不，他喝得不多。夫人一臉驚詫。

他掙多少錢？

他不工作，夫人回答說，他是個資本家。

我希望你們沒有負債吧？

當然沒有，孩子。你問這麼些無禮的問題到底是想說什麼呢？

無禮？小女孩說，怎麼會呢，夫人？媽媽要我的舉止一定要象夫人們一樣，當她們到我們家做客的時候，她們總是那樣問我媽媽的。