【翻译专栏】难题/ 翻译：李峰

有四个女生每天同坐一辆出租车去上学。

一天，有个女生说道：“今天早上有考试，不如我们晚点到，那样就不用考试了。”

“那怎么对老师说呢？”有女生问道：“他会生气的，我们得找好借口”。

女生们想了又想，其中有个女生想到一个主意：“就告诉他，我们的出租车爆胎了。”

“好主意”，其他女生异口同声地说道，“就这么对老师说”。结果她们晚了一个小时才到学校，考试已经结束了。

“你们怎么迟到了？”老师问道：“错过考试了！”

“出租车的轮胎爆了”其中一个女生回答道。

老师想了一会儿说：“坐下吧，教室的四个角落一人坐一个”。

女生不知所以地坐下了。

然后老师说：“把答案写在纸上，告诉我哪个轮胎爆了”。

原文：A difficult question

Four girls went to school together everyday by taxi.

One day one of the girls said, “There is atest this morning, let’s go to school late. Then we can miss the test.”

“What can we say to the teacher?” one ofthe girls said. “He’ll be angry. We’ll need a good reason.”

The girls thought for several minutes, andthen one of them said, “Let’s tell him that our taxi had a flat tyre.”

“That’s a good idea,” other girls said.“We’ll tell him that.” They reached school an hour late. The test was alreadyfinished. “ Why are you late?” The teacher asked. “ You miss the test.” “ Ourtaxi had a flat tyre.” One of the girls said.

The teacher thought for a moment, and thenhe said, “ Sit down; each of you in one corner of the room.”

The four girls did that. Then the teachersaid, “Write on a piece of paper the answer to this question; Which tyre wasflat?”

作者简介

作者简介：李峰，银行职员，闲暇写点文字，偶而见刊发表，既抒发胸臆，亦结缘向学。万象出新胜小说，鼓角灯前喜泪多。伴得我儿同成长，此生放纵不蹉跎。

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