笑话顾名思义是指一些能引人发笑的谈话或故事。笑话的意思有很多种，这都是中国汉字文化的博大精深之处，笑话这个字有时候还可以用成语气词。笑话来源于生活，是一种经过艺术加工的语言形式。下面请大家欣赏几则有趣的经典英语小笑话。

1. Boy: Is this seat empty?

   Girl: Yes, and this one will be if you sit down.

   男孩：这个座位是空的么？

   女孩：是的，如果你坐下，我的座位也将是空的。

2. Dad: Tom, please tell me, which month has 28 days?

    Tom: Every month.

    爸爸：告诉我汤姆，哪个月有28天呢？ 汤姆：每个月都有啊！

3. A cop spotted a woman driving and knitting at the same time. Coming up beside her, he said, "Pull over!"       "No," she replied, "a pair of socks!"

    巡警发现一名妇女边开车边织毛衣，便开车上前，说："靠边停车(套头衫)！" "不，" 她回答，"是一双袜子！"

4.  Palmist: The life line in your hand tells that you will die in a year.

    Customer: Good gracious! In a year? Palmist: Yes, but I can't say in which.

    手相大师：你手上的生命线显示出你还有一年将会死去。

    顾客：天哪，一年后？手相大师：是的，可是我不能说是哪一年。

5. Boy: "I'd like to call you. What's your number?"

    girl: "It's in the phone book." Boy: "But I don't know your name." girl: "That's in the phone book too."

    男：我想给你打电话。你的电话号码是多少？女：在电话本上呢。男：可是我不知道你的名字呀。女：也在电话本上呢。

6. “Tom, what's the matter with your brother?" asked the mother in the kitchen.

     "He's crying." "Oh, nothing, Mum," replied Tom. "I'm eating my cake.

      He is crying because I won't give him any." "But has he finished his own cake?" "Yes." said Tom. "And he       also cried when I was helping him finish that."

     "汤姆，你弟弟怎么了？" 妈妈在厨房里问。"他在哭。" "没事儿，妈妈，" 汤姆答道。"我在吃我的蛋糕。他哭是因为我       不给他吃。" "他已经吃完自己的了么？" "是的。" "我帮他吃完时，他也哭了。"

7. A husband, proving to his wife that women talk more than men, showed her a study which indicated that       men use on average only 15000 words a day, whereas women use 30000 words a    day. She thought           about this for a while and then told her husband that women use twice as many words as men because         they have to repeat everything they say. He said, "What?"

   丈夫给妻子看了一项调查结果，为了向她证明女人比男人啰嗦。研究表明男人平均每天使用15000个字，而女人每天使用    30000个。 妻子想了一会儿说，女人每天说的字数是男人的两倍，因为她们必须重复已经说    过的话。 他问："什么？"

8. Boy: Hi, didn't we go on dates before? Onec or twice?

   Girl: Must've been once. I never make the same mistake twice.

   男孩：嗨，我们之前是不是约会过，是一次还是两次，我忘记了。
   女孩：应该只有一次吧，我从不犯两次同样的错误。