第12章 Paint House

After two-week vacation, a man returned to his office and one of his fellow workers asked him what kind of time he'd had."I spent the whole two weeks helping my wife paint the rooms in our house. "he groaned.

"Does she do that often?"

"Well, "came the reply,"when we moved in a few years ago, the guest room was nine by twelve. Now it's eight by eleven!"

刷房子

一位男士休假两周后回到办公室，他的一名同事问他过得怎样。“我两周全都用来帮我老婆给我们家房间刷漆了。”他诉苦说。

“她经常干那活儿吗？”

“唉，”那个人答道，“我们几年前搬进来时，客房长十二英尺、宽九英尺，现在长十一英尺、宽八英尺。”