外国人生活中的幽默

　3 语音双关

　　语音双关例一：The things my wife buy at auctions are keeping me baroque.

　　这是一位男士利用baroque（形式怪样的）与broke（破产）的相近读音来表达对妻子花钱大手大脚的不满。

　　语音双关例二：Six year old Linda returned impressed from her school first day at school. Asked how she got on, she replied:" Every morning, we all have to sit at our desk and when the teacher calls our names, we have to answer 'prisoner' !"

　　当老师点名时，学生应该回答"present"。而Linda利用"prisoner"与"present"的相近读音，表达了对学校生活的不满。

　　语音双关例三：--"You're not eating your fish," the waitress asked him, "Anything wrong with it?"

　　--"Long time no sea," the customer replied.

　　"Long time no sea"鱼久不见海，肯定不新鲜。而"Long time no see"是朋友见面时所用的寒暄语，相当于老朋友久别重逢时说的“好久不见”。Sea与see是同音异形异义词，这位顾客巧妙地运用这一点，指出了鱼不好吃，不新鲜。