The Nitty-Gritty Dictionary | 精要词典

English Original

ADULT
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

BEAUTY PARLOR
A place where women curl up and dye.

CANNIBAL
Someone who is fed up with people.

CHICKENS
The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

COMMITTEE
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST
Mud with the juice squeezed out.

EGOTIST
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

GOSSIP
A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.

HANDKERCHIEF
Cold Storage.

INFLATION
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

MOSQUITO
An insect that makes you like flies better.

RAISIN
Grape with a sunburn.

SECRET
Something you tell to one person at a time.

SKELETON
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE
The pain that drives you to extraction.

TOMORROW
One of the greatest labor-saving devices of today.

YAWN
An honest opinion openly expressed.

WRINKLES
Something other people have. You have character lines.


中文翻译

成年人
一个两端停止生长、中间开始生长的人。

美容院
一个让女人卷起来(curl up)并染色(dye/死)的地方。(注:英文为双关语,"curl up and dye" 谐音 "curl up and die",意为卷缩起来并死去。)

食人族
一个受够了人类的人。


唯一一种你在它出生前(鸡蛋)和死后(鸡肉)都吃的动物。

委员会
一个保存会议记录(minutes)却浪费数小时(hours)的机构。

灰尘
被挤干了汁液的泥巴。

自大狂
一个谈话时通常深陷于“我”(me-deep)之中的人。

长舌者
一个如果真相能造成更大伤害就绝不会说谎的人。

手帕
冷藏库。(注:指用来擤鼻涕,是鼻涕的“冷存储”。)

通货膨胀
在不损坏纸张的情况下将钱切成两半。(注:指货币购买力减半。)

蚊子
一种让你更喜欢苍蝇的昆虫。

葡萄干
被晒伤的葡萄。

秘密
你一次只告诉一个人的事情。

骷髅
一堆被刮掉了人的骨头。

牙痛
一种驱使你去拔牙(extraction)的疼痛。(注:extraction亦有“提取”之意。)

明天
当今最伟大的省力装置之一。(注:讽刺拖延症,把事情都推到明天。)

哈欠
一种公开表达的诚实意见。

皱纹
别人有的东西。你有的,是性格线。

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