冷笑话英语短文之一

A fellow stopped at a rural gas station and, after filling his tank, he bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola ad watched two men working along the roadside.

One worker would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other worker came along behind and filled in the hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was about 25 feet behind filling in the old hole.

“Hold it, hold it,” the fellow said to the men. “Can you tell me what’s going on here with this digging?”

“Well, we work for the country government,” one of the men said.

“But one of you is digging a hole and the other is filling it up. You’re not accomplishing anything. Aren’t you wasting the country’s money?”

“You don’t understand, mister,” one of the men said, learning on his shovel and wiping his brow. “Normally, there’s three of us, me, Joe, and Mike. I dig the hole, Joe sticks in the tree and Mike here puts the dirt back.”

“Yeah,” piped up Mike. “Now Joe is sick but that doesn’t mean we can’t work, does it?”

大意是讲一个人刚好加完油出来，顺便买了罐饮料，发现不远处有一个人在挖洞，而另一个人却在25英尺远的地方填洞，他很好奇，于是跑过去问他们在干什么？

他们说他们帮当地政府工作，那人于是说，你们一个挖完，另一个又填，这分明是浪费国家的钱嘛！

挖洞的那个人说道，“你们有所不知啊，其实我们本来是3个人的，一个挖洞，一个种树，一个填坑。但是其中一个（种树的那个）生病了，我们没理由不干活吧！是吧！”