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一天，一个著名博学的教授拜访一个乡村。他坐在当地的咖啡馆里，村民们围在他的桌子旁边，听他夸夸其谈，从一个学科讲到另一个学科。 最后,一个村民打断了教授，这样问道："尊敬的教授，我可以问你一个问题吗？如果你答不上来，你给我10美元。然后你再问我一个问题，如果我回答不上来，我给你2美元。这样挺公平，”村民继续说，"因为你受过教育，学问很深，而我只是个无知的农民。” 教授接受了提议，于是村民问了 ： “什么动物有一条腿，四个头?” 教授想了很长一段时间，最后他承认自己不知道,并付给了村民10美元。 教授接着问村民同一个问题。"对不起，其实我也不知道。"村民一边付给教授2美元， The Villager and the Professor A famous professor of great erudition was visiting a village one day. He sat in the local coffeehouse where the village men gathered around his table to listen to him expound on one subject after another. Finally one of the villagers interrupted the professor with the following proposition. "Can I ask you a question, my dear professor? If you can not answer it, you pay me ten dollars. Then you ask me a question, and if I can not answer it, I pay you two dollars. This is fair," continued the villager, “because you are a man of great knowledge and education,while I am simply an ignorant peasant. ” The professor accepted the proposal, and the villager asked his question, "What creature has one leg and four heads?” After thinking for a long while, the professor admitted he didn’t know, so he paid the villager ten dollars. The professor then asked the villager to answer his own question. “Sorry, but I don’t know either," Replied the villager as he paid the professor two dollars. |
