Chủ đề: vo chong

A woman told a friend that she had just married for the fourth time.

"Wonderful!" her friend said. "But if you don't mind my asking, what happened to your first husband?"

"He ate poisonous mushrooms and died."

"How tragic! And your second husband?"

"He ate poisonous mushrooms too."

"How awful! I'm almost afraid to ask about your third husband."

"He died of a broken neck."

"A broken neck?"

"He wouldn't eat the mushrooms!"

Từ vựng trong truyện

• poisonous: có độc
• tragic: bi thảm
• awful: kinh khủng
• broken neck: gãy cổ

Wife: "Why aren't you watering our garden?"

Husband: "Can't you see it's pouring with rain?"

Wife: "Then put on a raincoat! Why are you so lazy?"

Từ vựng trong truyện

• watering: tưới nước
• pouring with rain: mưa như trút nước
• raincoat: áo mưa

A man saw his friend limping miserably down the street. "Good heavens, what happened? Why are your face, arms, and legs all bruised? Let me take you home!"

Alarmed, his friend waved his hands. "Are you crazy? I've only just escaped from there!"

"What?!"

Từ vựng trong truyện

• limping: đi khập khiễng
• miserably: trông thảm hại
• bruised: bầm tím
• Alarmed: hoảng hốt

Rosie happened to see her best friend taking a pill and asked, "Are you ill?"

"No," her friend replied. "It's just a birth control pill. I have to be especially careful these days."

Curious, Rosie asked, "Didn't you tell me a few months ago that your husband had been diagnosed as infertile?"

Her friend sighed. "Exactly. That's why I have to be even more careful."

Rosie was lost for words.

Từ vựng trong truyện

• birth control pill: thuốc tránh thai
• diagnosed: được chẩn đoán
• infertile: vô sinh
• sighed: thở dài

A woman whose husband was constantly unfaithful went to a Buddhist master for advice, overwhelmed with sadness.

"Master, my husband keeps cheating even though I love him, care for him, and indulge his every wish. I don't understand why."

The master said nothing. He quietly handed her a steamed bun. "First, eat this."

She ate it, and he asked, "Was it good?"

"Yes."

"Would you like another?"

"Yes."

The master said calmly, "Now do you understand the reason?"

She nodded. "I understand, Master. Human greed is bottomless."

He shook his head. "No. It's because you've become too fat!"

Từ vựng trong truyện

• unfaithful: ngoại tình, không chung thủy
• overwhelmed: bị cảm xúc lấn át
• indulge: chiều chuộng, thỏa mãn
• steamed bun: bánh bao hấp
• bottomless: không có đáy, vô tận