1.
Mother asked her little boy, Darling, what did the teacher teach you today?
Nothing, Mum, answered the son proundly, instead, she asked me how much one plus two was, and I told her three.
母親問她年幼的兒子：寶貝，今天老師教了你些什麼?
兒子驕傲地說：什麼都沒教，媽媽。她反倒問我一加二等於幾，我告訴她等於三。
2.
On the way home after watching a ballet performance, the kindergarten teacher asked her students what they thought of it. The smallest girl in the class said she wished the dancers were taller so that they would not have to stand on their toes all the time.
在觀看完芭蕾舞表演回家的路上，幼兒園老師問學生的觀後感。班上最小的女孩說，她希望舞蹈演員可以長得更高一點兒，那麼他們就不用整天踮著腳尖了。
3.
Before the final examination, Tom told his mother, "Mom, I had a dream last night that I'd passed today's exam."
"Don't trust dreams, dear. It is said what you experience in dreams usually turns out to be the opposite." Mother replied.
"Then I do hope I'll fail the other subjects in my dream tonight," Tom said.
在期末考試之前，湯姆告訴他的.母親：“媽媽，我昨天晚上做了一個夢，夢見我通過了今天的考試。”
“不要相信夢，親愛的。據說夢中的經歷通常與現實相反。”媽媽答道。
“那麼，我真希望在今晚的夢中，我的其他功課都不及格。”湯姆說。