英语幽默 | 牧师非常生气，因为总有一个人在他布道时打瞌睡
一个星期天，正当坐在前排的那个人又在瞌睡时，牧师决定要好好教育他一下，让他不要再在布道时睡觉。
英语词源 | gust 一阵风，希腊神话中脾气暴躁的食神
加斯特（ Gust ）是希腊神话中的食神，经常下凡到人间来品味各种美味佳肴，因此英语单词 gust 含有“风味、个人癖好”的意思。
区别辨析sham与fake
这两个名词均表示“冒牌货”之意。
英语幽默 | 明天早上数 Count Tomorrow Morning
It's a night. John is looking at the sky. Tom is John's younger brother. He asks John "What are you doing?"
这是一个晚上。约翰抬头看着天空。汤姆是约翰的弟弟。他问约翰：“你在干什么？”
拉丁前缀之与ob（against, over 对抗；超越）相关的英语词汇
obviate
英 [ˈɒbvieɪt] 美 [ˈɑːbvieɪt]
【正式用语】消除、排除、打消
英语短篇小说 | The Boy And The Filberts 男孩和榛子 伊索寓言
A Boy was given permission to put his hand into a pitcher to get some filberts. But he took such a great fistful that he could not draw his hand out again. There he stood, unwilling to give up a single filbert and yet unable to get them all out at once. Vexed and disappointed he began to cry.
英语短篇小说 | 欧·亨利短篇小说精选集免费在线阅读目录
欧·亨利（英语：O. Henry，1862年9月11日－1910年6月5日），原名威廉·西德尼·波特（William Sydney Porter），美国小说家。他少年时曾一心想当画家，婚后在妻子的鼓励下开始写作。
英语幽默 | 穿袜子 Wear Socks
Mum: Look at your socks. One is short, the other is long. You must have put on the wrong ones.
妈妈：小东，看你的袜子一只长，一只短，你肯定穿错了。
英语词源 | fad 一时的流行，for a day的组合
另外， fad 与 fade （逐渐消失）拼写很接近，在词义上也可以产生关联，即： fad 就是很快就会 fade 的狂热或爱好。
拉丁前缀之与con, co, col, cor（together 一起）相关的英语词汇
collusion
英 [kəˈluːʒn] 美 [kəˈluːʒn]
【正式用语】 密谋、勾结、串通
区别辨析shake、tremble、shiver、quiver、vibrate与shudder
这些动词均含“震动，颤抖”之意。
英语短篇小说 | The Pit and the Pendulum 陷坑与钟摆 埃德加·爱伦·坡
I WAS sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence, the dread sentence of death, was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears.
