英语名人轶事精选：英汉对照

    CONTENTS
   目 录
   Churchill’sPortrait
   丘吉尔的肖像
   The Night the President Met the Burglar
   总统深夜遇盗贼
   Colurnbus and the Egg
   哥伦布和鸡蛋
   Wagner’s Working Costume
   瓦格纳的工作服
   Iacocca’s Story
   艾科卡自述
   The President People Find Difficult to Dislike
   受人喜欢的总统
   Ralph Bunce，Architect of Peace
   和平的建筑师拉尔夫·本奇
   How Napoleon Crossed the Alps
   拿破仑翻越阿尔卑斯山
   Manuscript for Kettles
   水壶曲
   The President Who Was Workaholic
   工作狂的总统
   Roosevelt Jokes with Stalin at Churchill’s
   Expernse
   逗乐了斯大林却惹恼了丘吉尔
   The Sleepiest Occupant of the White House
   白宫中最贪睡的人
   The First Men on the Moon
   第一批踏上月球的人
   The Last Years of Einstein
   爱因斯坦的晚年
   Incurable Pride
   无可救药的骄傲
   The Model of Nobility
   贵族的典范
   Truman Put Sormething over the Russians
   杜鲁门欺骗了俄国人
   The Minister Who Was Greeted with a
   Butcher’s Knife
   切肉刀迎公使
   Girl Liked Whiskers
   小姑娘喜欢大胡子
   Alexander the Great
   亚历山大大帝
   Self－confidence
   自信
   The Stingy Coolidge
   吝啬的柯立芝
   The King and His Hawk
   国王和鹰
   You'd Better Go back to School
   你最好重返学校
   Mark Twain and the Game Warden
   马克·吐温与野生动物看护员
   Catalani and Goethe
   加泰罗妮和歌德
   Lincoln Was Able to Joke about Hinself？
   林肯开得起玩笑？
   Popular Maradona
   受欢迎的马拉多纳
   “Conrade Churchill’
    “丘吉尔同志”
   A Peculiar Genius
    奇才
   “Eureka ’
   “我发现了’
   Khruschev and Guard of Honour
   赫鲁晓夫与礼宾官
   The First Television
   第一台电视机
   Viotti’s Tin Fiddle
   维奥蒂的白铁提琴
   Kissinger and the Belly Dancer
   基辛格与肚皮舞女
   John F.Kennedy ，the Quick Witted President
   机敏的总统肯尼迪
   Spohr As a Horn Player
   斯波尔当号手
   Seduction or Rape ？
   诱奸罪辩成强奸罪？
   Super Sprinter
   短跑巨星
   Liszt's precocity
   李斯特的早慧
   Alfred Nobel —a Man of Contrasts
   诺贝尔——一个充满矛盾的人
   Gottlieb Daimler and the First Motor－Cars
   戴姆勒与最早的汽车
   James Watt and the Teakettle
   瓦特和茶壶
   Beethoven ’s First Triumph
   贝多芬初露锋芒
   The Avaricious Czarina
   贪心的女皇
   Johnson vs Ford
   约翰逊对福特
   Drop Your Pants
   脱下你的裤子
   Zhu Ziqing Preferred Death to Relief
   Food fromAmerica
   朱自清宁死不领救济粮
   Absent Minded
   心不在焉
   A TelegramC/O the Queen
   由女王转交的电报
   An Episode in the Life of an Artist
   一位艺术家的生活片断
   You Will Be Seeping with the President of the
   United States
   你将和美国总统睡觉
   Moscow's Reformer Yeltsin Stirs Up the
   City
   莫斯科的改革者叶利钦使该市活跃起来
   George Washington and the Horse
   华盛顿与马
   The “Ox” Minuet
   “公牛”小步舞曲
   A Double Misunderstanding
   双重误会
   “Stinking” presents
   “发臭的”礼物
   Saving a Fiddle
   救琴
   Napoleon Outwitted by a Songstress
    歌手智胜拿破仑
   The Pope Learning English
   教皇学英语
   Clementi ’s Economy
   克莱曼蒂的节俭
   A Story about Sir Isaac Newton
   牛顿轶闻一则
   Playing on aShoe
   在鞋子上演奏
   ASecond Napoleon
   又一个拿破仑
   Western NotedPersonswithCats
   西方名人与猫
   ADay intheLife of“Winston Churchill’
   丘吉尔生活中的一天
   The Minister ’sWife Who Emerged from
   Underground
   地下冒出来的公使夫人
   FieldFooled
   菲尔德被愚弄
   MozartandHaydn
   莫扎特与海顿
   Geo rge Steph enson and the Rail ways
   史蒂文生与铁路
   The Most Unpopu larPresi dent
   最不受欢迎的总统
   MichaelFaraday
   法拉第
   Cooli dge ’sHum our
   柯立芝的幽默
   Alexanderand Buceph alus
   亚历山大和比塞弗勒斯
   Sirlsaac New ton and the Apple
   牛顿和苹果
   SadTears ofthe IronWoman
   铁娘子的伤心泪
   Galileo and thelamps
   伽利略和灯
   Kant ’sDaily Life
   康德的日常生活
   The Lumi èreBrothersand theCinema
   吕米埃兄弟与电影
   SomethingforEverybody
   驱客妙方
   ToMakePapaProud
   为了让爸爸自豪
   Leonard0DaVinci
   达·芬奇
   Franklin’sToast
   富兰克林的祝酒辞
   What ’sthe Hurry
   不用着急
   TheGrunblings oftheFrenchForeignMinister
   andtheForbearanceofRoosevelt
   法国外长的牢骚和罗斯福的宽容
   TelegramtothePostMasterGeneral
   致电邮政总长
   Kennedy vsNixon
   肯尼迪对尼克松
   Carter ’sJoke
   卡特的玩笑
   TheMan Who Became Presi dent Against all
   odds
   意外当选的总统
   The Fou rth Term Pres ident
   连任四次的美国总统
   An Inside Joke
   家庭笑话
   Give theDog aTelephone Call
   给狗打个电话
   Can You Keep aSecret？
   你能保守秘密吗？
   Kiss inger ，theReal orthe False ？
   谁是基辛格？
   AMusicalPriest
   一位音乐牧师
   George Washi ngton and His Hat chet
   华盛顿和他的斧子
   HumphryDavy
   汉弗莱·戴维
   How Paganini Sec ured His Fav ouri teFiddl e
   帕格尼尼得琴
   The Fall ofMussol ini
   墨索里尼倒台
   Churchill“Stole”aSilver Plate
   丘吉尔“盗”银盘
   RooseveltandChurchill
   罗斯福和丘吉尔
   GeneralDeGaulle’s“Reserve”Language
   戴高乐的“备用”语言
   Never BeenOuttalked
   讲话从不输入
   Eisenhower Ma kes aBet with
   Montegomery
   艾森豪威尔与蒙哥马利打赌
   The Unde rstan ding Presi dent
   善解人意的总统
   Handel’sSuccessfulScheme
   韩德尔成功的计划
   Chris tian ’sHuy gens and the Story of
   Clocks
   惠更斯与钟表的故事
   Buchanan’sDilemma
   布坎南的烦恼
   The Pres ident Who Cou ldAd lib
   能够随机应变的总统
   The Pot Callsthe Kettle Black
   五十步与百步
   TheHandsomestMan
   最英俊的人