愚人笑話：2、 Why do you never phone me? 怎么從不給我打電話

2. Why do you never phone me?

Mrs. Smith lives in a small village. She is a widow1, but she has one son. He is twenty-one and his name is Jack. He worked in the shop in the village and lived with his mother.

But a few months ago he got work in a town and went to live there. Its name was Hempstead. It was quite a long way from his mother's village, and she was not happy about this. But Jack said, "There isn't any good work for me here in the countryside2, mother, I can get a lot of money in Hempstead and send you some every week."

Mrs. Smith was very angry last Sunday. She got in a train and went to her son's house in Hempstead. Then she said to him, "Jack, why do you never phone me?" Jack laughed, "But, Mother," He said, "you have got no phone." "No," she answered, "I haven't, but you've got one!"

Notes:

1. widow 寡婦

2. countryside 鄉(xiāng)村

怎么從不給我打電話

史密斯夫人住在一個(gè)小村子里。她是個(gè)寡婦，但是她有一個(gè)兒子，兩人相依為命。兒子名叫杰克，今年21歲。他本來(lái)一直在村子里的一家店里工作，和母親住在一起。

但幾個(gè)月前，他在鎮(zhèn)上找了份工作并搬到鎮(zhèn)上去住了。那個(gè)叫漢普斯德的鎮(zhèn)子離他母親住的村子很遠(yuǎn)，為此史密斯夫人很不高興，于是杰克安慰她說(shuō)：“媽媽?zhuān)@個(gè)村子里沒(méi)有適合我的好工作，我可以在漢普斯德掙好多錢(qián)，每周我都會(huì)給你寄錢(qián)回來(lái)的。”

上周日史密斯夫人很生氣，便搭乘火車(chē)去了漢普斯德鎮(zhèn)兒子住處，說(shuō)：“杰克，你怎么從不給我打電話？”杰克聽(tīng)了大笑起來(lái)：“可是媽媽?zhuān)悴](méi)有電話啊?！薄按_實(shí)”，她反駁說(shuō)，“我是沒(méi)有，但是你有??！”

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美國(guó)的鎮(zhèn)因州而異。在一些州，鎮(zhèn)是建制市鎮(zhèn)，這意味著，鎮(zhèn)和市差不多，有一個(gè)從州授予的憲章。美國(guó)的建制市鎮(zhèn)包括市、鎮(zhèn)、自治市鎮(zhèn)（borough）、村和鄉(xiāng)（如在賓夕法尼亞州和新澤西州）。根據(jù)2006年美國(guó)人口普查局?jǐn)?shù)據(jù)，位于紐約州的漢普斯德（Hempstead）是全美最大的鎮(zhèn)，有76萬(wàn)人口，大于圣弗朗西斯科、波士頓和西雅圖。