外國最新英語幽默笑話精粹161：青銅老鼠(中英)
A tourist wanders into a back-alley antique shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. Picking through the objects on display he discovers a detailed，life-sized bronze sculpture of a rat. The sculpture is so interesting and unique that he picks it up and asks the shop owner what it costs.
"Twelve dollars for the rat，sir,”says the shop owner, "and a thousand dollars more for the story behind it.”
一名游客在舊金山唐人街的一家破舊的古董店里閑逛。他挑選著陳列架上的物品，發現了一只做工精細、真實般大小的青銅老鼠。他拿起這個既有趣又獨特的雕像，問店主賣多少錢。
"You can keep the story, old man，”he replies. "but I'll take the rat.”
“這只老鼠十二美元，先生”，店主說，“要知道它背后的故事，要再加一千美元。”
“那個故事還是你自己留著吧，老頭，”他回答說，“我就要買這只老鼠。”
The transaction complete， the tourist leaves the store with the bronze rat under his arm. As he crosses the street in front of the store; two live rats emerge from a sewer drain and fall into step behind him. Nervously looking over his shoulder, he begins to walk faster, but every time he passes another sewer drain，more rats come out and follow him.
這筆交易結束后，這名游客夾著這只青銅老鼠離開了那個古董店。當他穿過店前的大街時，兩只活老鼠從下水道里出來，跟在他的后面。他緊張地回頭看著，開始走得更快。但是，每當他走過一個下水道時就會出來更多的老鼠跟在他后面。
By the time he’s walked two blocks, at least a hundred rats are at his heels，and people begin . to point and shout. He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot as multitudes of rats swarm from sewers, basements, vacant lots, and abandoned cars.
等到他走了兩個街區的時候，至少有一百只老鼠跟在他的后面。人們開始指指點點并開始大叫。他走得更快了，甚至跑了起來，老鼠也從下水道、地下室、廢棄的停車場和報廢的汽車里跟了出來。
Rats by the thousands are at his heels, and as he sees the waterfront at the bottom of the hill，he panics and starts to run for the bridge. Making a mighty leap, he jumps up onto a light post，grasping it with one arm while he hurls the bronze rat into San Francisco Bay with the other, as far as he can heave it. Pulling his legs up and clinging to the light post，he watches in amazement as the seething tide of rats surges over the breakwater into the sea，where they drown.
當他走到了山腳下的碼頭時，后面跟著的老鼠已經有上千只了。他開始變得恐慌，就向著大橋跑去。他用力一跳，跳到了一個燈桿上。他一手抓著燈桿，一只手用盡全力地把那只青銅老鼠扔向了舊金山海灣;他把雙腿夾緊燈桿，驚訝的看到，滾滾的鼠潮洶涌地沖向防洪堤，向著青銅老鼠人水的方向跳進了大海。
Shaken and mumbling, he makes his way back to the antique shop. "Ah, so you've come back for the rest of the story,” says the owner.
他全身顫抖，嘴里還喃喃而語地回到了那個古董店。“啊，你是回來買那老鼠背后故事的吧?”店主問。
“No,”says the tourist，"but I was wondering if you have any bronze lawyers!”
“不是”，那個游客說，“但是我想知道你們這里有沒有賣青銅律師的!”
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