有一种智慧叫自嘲

Ronnie: Is your new hunting horse well behaved?

Johnnie: He certainly is. He has such good manners that when we come to a fence, he stops and lets me go over first.

Ronnie：你的新猎马表现得好吗？

Johnnie：非常好。他风度很好，我们到栅栏时，它就停下让我先过去。

小编插话：“主人优先”是马的风度，一笑置之是主人的风度。

In case my life should end because of the cannibals, I hope someone will write on my tombstone, “we have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.”

假如我的生命结束在食人族，我希望他们在我的墓碑上写上，“我们吃了Schweitzer博士，他（从头）到脚都好（吃）”。

小编插话：He was good to the end在英语里还可理解为“他一直到生命的最后都很好”。有智慧的人自嘲的时候还会小小的自我标榜一把。

Were lucky we have an apartment, If we lived in our car, we'd be home by now.

幸运的是我们还有房子住，我们如果住在汽车里，现在就到家里了。

小编插话：如果你爸爸在车里抱怨交通拥堵，你不妨这么帮他解嘲。

I have flabby[松弛] thighs[大腿], but fortunately my stomach covers them.

我大腿很松弛，但幸运的是被我的肚子盖住了。

小编插话：眼睛向下看不见大腿，只能看见肚子的时候，该庆幸至少大腿的赘肉看不见了。

Frankly, I never considered myself bald until I went to a formal dinner and bent over to pick up a napkin. The woman next to me looked down at my head, turned to the waiter and said, “No melon, thank you.”

坦白说，我从不认为我秃顶，直到有一次我去一家正规的餐厅，弯腰捡餐巾时，挨着我坐的女人低头看着我的脑袋，转向服务员说，“不要瓜，谢谢你。”

小编插话：对自己的某些缺陷其实不用讳莫如深，偶尔自己开它一个玩笑，你会发现，其实谁在乎呢。