Two Roaches | 两只蟑螂
Two roaches are eating garbage when one describes the extreme cleanliness of a new restaurant, mu...
Astronaut's Culinary Regret: Too Much Shrimp in Space | 太空生活：女宇航员的甜蜜烦恼
Astronaut Peggy Whitson shares her experiences during a 130-day ISS mission, noting how micrograv...
The Wolves, the Sheep and the Ram | 狼、羊与公羊
Wolves propose peace to sheep on the condition of killing their guardian dogs. The sheep agree, b...
Fossett Makes History | 福塞特创造历史：完成首次单人无间断环球飞行
American adventurer Steve Fossett successfully completed the world's first solo, nonstop, unrefue...
A Nice Stone | 上好的石头
A widow humorously reveals how she interpreted her late husband's final wish to buy a "nice stone...
The Boundless Journey | 鹏程万里
This passage recounts the legend of the Kun fish transforming into the Peng bird from *Zhuangzi*,...
The Fox Borrows the Tiger's Might | 狐假虎威
A clever fox, caught by a tiger, tricks it by claiming divine authority. By walking ahead of the ...
The Extra Charge | 额外收费
A dentist explains to a mother that her son's tooth extraction costs twenty dollars instead of th...
A Slingshot Is a Slingshot | “弹”就是“弹”
Hui Zi defends his use of metaphors by demonstrating that explaining an unknown concept (a slings...
Wei Wenhou's Hunting Appointment | 魏文侯期猎
Wei Wenhou interrupts his merry drinking to honor a hunting appointment in the rain, demonstratin...
Bringing Back to Life | 起死回生
The story recounts how the ancient doctor Bian Que correctly diagnosed a prince's coma as illness...
The Three Lazy Ones | 三个懒汉
A dying king decides his successor will be his laziest son. Each son tries to outdo the others wi...
Each Man Has His Merits | 各有所长
A foreigner applying for U.S. citizenship cleverly responds to a judge's test question by asserti...
Good Wishes | 美好的心愿
A boy tells his teacher his father intends to send roast pig, but the plan is abandoned when the ...
Waste or Save | 浪费还是节约
A humorous dialogue where a father scolds his son for wasting time by sleeping, and the son cleve...
Two English Jokes | 英语小幽默两则
Two short humorous dialogues. The first involves a logical paradox about an all-purpose solvent, ...
Ajax the Great | 巨人埃杰克斯
Ajax the Great was a mighty but simple-minded Greek hero in the Trojan War. After losing the cont...
Pangu Separates the Sky and the Earth | 盘古开天
This myth describes how Pangu emerged from a primordial egg-like chaos and spent millennia separa...
The Ugly Girl Imitates the Frown | 丑女效颦
An ugly girl blindly imitates the frowning expression of the beautiful Xi Shi, not realizing that...
The Trees and the Ax | 树与斧
A woodman's modest request for an ax handle leads the trees to sacrifice a humble neighbor, only ...
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