short-story

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The Alligator and the Shoes | 鳄鱼与鞋

A woman, determined to get affordable alligator shoes, decides to hunt her own alligator in the L...

anecdote beginner-english humor
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Monkey Business | 带它去动物园

A policeman misunderstands his boss's order to take a stray monkey to the zoo, instead treating i...

anecdote beginner-english dialogue
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Free Drinks For Everybody | 人人有份的免费酒水

A drunk man repeatedly offers to buy drinks for everyone but never pays, getting thrown out each ...

bar beginner dialogue
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A Busy Man's Wit | 忙人的机智

A man cleverly outwits mischievous children who ask him to fetch birds' eggs, by securing his boo...

anecdote beginner bilingual
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The Painted Vase | 被粉刷的花瓶

A painter solves an impossible color-matching task by cleverly altering the original vase, not th...

anecdote fiction humorous
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The Beautiful Hat | 漂亮的帽子

Mr. Jones loses his hat out of a train window and throws his bag out too, believing that the addr...

beginner-english fiction humorous
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He Thinks He's a Refrigerator | 他以为自己是台冰箱

A woman seeks help for her husband's delusion of being a refrigerator, but her real concern is th...

beginner dialogue humor
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Two Dollars | 两美元

A man cleverly tests a rude shopkeeper's valuation of his own merchandise, ultimately purchasing ...

anecdote beginner-english dialogue
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A Private Conversation | 私人谈话

The narrator recounts a frustrating experience at the theatre where a private conversation behind...

beginner-english dialogue everyday-life
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Not Your Mama's Chili | 此辣酱非彼辣酱

A young cowboy eagerly eats an old man's untouched bowl of chili, only to discover a shocking sec...

anecdote bilingual food
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How Could Anyone Stoop So Low? | 谁能如此卑劣?

A beloved but short-statured restaurant manager angrily reports a pickpocketing. Amidst the stunn...

cultural-misunderstanding humor intermediate-english
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Emergency Call | 急诊电话

A panicked parent calls a doctor after their child swallows a pen, only to receive a humorous and...

beginner-english dialogue emergency
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The Supermarket Mother | 超市里的“妈妈”

A young man, moved by an elderly lady's story of her late son, agrees to call her "Mother" as she...

deception dialogue emotional
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A Way to Make Money | 生财之道

A mother saves money by hand-washing a dress instead of dry-cleaning it, proudly telling her husb...

beginner dialogue family-life
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The Grounded Conductor | 接地气的调度员

A job applicant for a signalman position gives a series of increasingly improbable contingency pl...

anecdote dialogue humor
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Redneck's Birth Control | 红脖子的避孕方式

A father misunderstands the term "sexually active" when taking his daughter for birth control, le...

culture dialogue humor
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The Weight Loss Skipping | 跳跃式减肥

A doctor prescribes a diet of eating for two days and then fasting for one. The patient loses muc...

english-learning humor misunderstanding
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Mr. Ferdinand's Lunch | 费迪南德先生的午餐

Mrs. Ferdinand leaves her husband a tin of fish for lunch. When she returns, he complains of sore...

beginner-english daily-life dialogue
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The Silent Ride | 无声飞行

A farmer takes a dare for a free airplane ride by staying silent, only to reveal the shocking rea...

anecdote beginner-english dialogue
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How Do I Get the Gum Out? | 怎么把口香糖取出来呢

A stewardess distributes gum to prevent ear-popping, but a passenger misunderstands and asks how ...

beginner humor misunderstanding
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