English Original
A student kept bugging his friend, "What time is it?" Finally, his friend complained, "Why don't you get a watch like the rest of us?"
"Why do I need a watch? There is always someone around to ask."
"But what can you do in the middle of the night, when you are alone and need to know what time it is?"
"That's easy—I blow my shofar." (A shofar is a ram's horn, blown on Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur, which sounds like a wailing voice.)
"You what?"
"I blow my shofar. Whenever I wake up and need to know the time, I open the window and blow it very loudly. Literally within seconds, I hear someone yell, 'Are you crazy? It's 2:45 in the morning!'"
中文翻译
一个学生不停地纠缠他的朋友：“现在几点了？” 最后，他的朋友抱怨道：“你为什么不和我们一样买块手表呢？”
“我为什么要手表？周围总有人可以问啊。”
“但是，如果你半夜独自一人，需要知道时间，该怎么办呢？”
“很简单——我吹我的羊角号。”（羊角号是一种公羊角制成的号角，在犹太新年和赎罪日结束时吹响，声音如同哀嚎。）
“你做什么？”
“我吹我的羊角号。每当我醒来需要知道时间时，我就打开窗户，非常大声地吹响它。真的，几秒钟内，我就能听到有人大喊：‘你疯了吗？现在是凌晨2点45分！’”