13-01-30 An old lady who was very deaf and who thought everything too dear, went into a shop and asked the shopman: How much this stuff? Seven dollars, Madam, it is very cheap. The lady said, It is too much, give it to me for fourteen. I did not say seventee...

12-12-19 Dentist: I'm sorry, madam, but I'll have to charge you twenty-five dollars for pulling your son's tooth. Mother: Twenty-five dollars! But I thought you only charged five dollars for an extraction. Dentist: I usually do. But your son yelled so loud,...

12-07-04 People occasionally tell you, Do that in your free time, but in fact there's no such thing as free time. Even when you're lying by the swimming pool, that's leisure time -- but it isn't free time. To prove that all time has value, a senior executive...

12-06-12 At auction spot, someone has lost a bag, in which has the vital document. The owner says, Once who picked it up brings it to me, I will take out 200 dollars to remunerate reward him or her. On hearing the news, another chap（小伙子，家伙） shouts ou...

12-05-09 One day a little girl came running into her house yelling, Mommy, I got five dollars! The mother was curious, so she asked her child where she got the five dollars from. The little girl replied: ''Tommy down the street gave me five dollars for doing...

12-04-12 In 1945, a 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the pricefive dollarswas far beyond Reuben Earle's means. Five dollars would buy almost a week's groceries for his family. Reuben couldn't ask his father for th...

12-03-01 精彩对白 Mattie: How much are you paying for cotton? Trader: Nine and a half, for low and middlin' and ten for ordinary. Mattie: Think I'm surprise of that, really. I sold to the Wizten brothers in Little Rock for eleven cents. Trader: Then I sugges...

11-09-20 There was a lady who took a taxi home, and when the taxi driver approached her house she told him to stop, saying, Okay, here, here is good. Then she asked the driver, How much is it? And the driver replied, Ten dollars. Then, after searching in her...

11-09-11 This approach is basically the one Ive been advocating for months. In addition to the trillion dollars of spending cuts Ive already signed into law, its a balanced plan that would reduce the deficit by making additional spending cuts, by making mode...

10-11-18 Jim walked into a store which had a sign outside: Second-hand clothes bought and sold. He was carrying an old pair of pants（裤子，短裤） and asked the owner of the store, How much will you give me for these? The man looked at them and then said rud...