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数学 math [英][mæθ] [美][mæθ] 中英文小故事：数学教授数箱子 一个数学教授刚刚接受了新的工作岗位，是在另一个城市的大学，他必须要搬家。 他和他的妻子把他们的财物打包成纸箱，运送到了他们的新家。为了处理一些遗留问题，妻子需要留在旧居几天，而她的丈夫已经来到了他们新的住所。 箱子到达新住所的时候，妻子没能联系到她的丈夫。当他们在晚上的电话通话过程中，妻子嘱咐数学教授仔细地数数箱，确定搬运工在搬运过程中没有丢失任何箱子。 “一共39箱”，电话里，教授向妻子通报。 “那不可能，”妻子说。“搬运工从我们的老地方搬走的是40箱。” 教授再去清点箱子数量，但是，他清点的结果仍然是39箱。 第二天早晨，妻子向搬家公司抱怨。搬家公司承诺马上去检查；几小时后，有人打电话回来报告说，所有四十个箱子真的全部搬运过来了。 在晚上，数学教授和他的妻子在打电话，她问：“我不明白。当你清点的时候，你得到的结果是39箱，而搬家公司清点，是40箱。这比奇怪还奇怪啦……” “嗯”，教授说。“这是一部无绳电话，所以，你可以在电话的那头，和我一起数数：零，一，二，三，……” The math professor just accepted a new position at a university in another city and has to move. He and his wife pack all their belongings into cardboard boxes and have them shipped off to their new home. To sort out some family matters, the wife stays behind for a few more days while her husband has already left for their new residence. The boxes arrive when the wife still hasn't rejoined her husband. When they talk on the phone in the evening, she asks him to count the boxes, just to make sure the movers didn't loose any of them. "Thirty nine boxes altogether", says the professor on the phone. "That can't be", the wife exclaims. "The movers picked up forty boxes at our old place." The prof counts once again, but again his count only reaches 39. The next morning, the wife calls the moving company and complains. The company promises to check; a few hours later, someone calls back and reports that all forty boxes did arrive. In the evening, when the prof and his wife are on the phone again, she asks: "I don't understand it. When you count, you get 39, and when they do, they get 40. That's more than strange..." "Well", the prof says. "This is a cordless phone, so you can stay on the line and count with me: zero, one, two, three,..." 中英文例句 How do you know the math teacher? 你怎么会认识那个数学老师的？ Who's her math teacher? 谁是她的数学老师？ They know math and science. 他们知道数学和科学。 Are you a math major? 你是数学系的？ |
