阅读_2000_American friend

A famous American writer was visiting Japan last year. He went to a school to talk to a large group of students. Most of them could not understand English, so he had to have an interpreter(口译员).

In his talk, he told an interesting story. He spoke for a long time and then stopped for the interpreter to put it into Japanese. But he was very surprised that the interpreter did this in a few seconds, and all the students began to laugh. After the talk, the writer thanked the interpreter for his good work,and then he said to him,“Now, tell me, young man, how could you put my long story into a very short Japanese words and everyone can understand my interesting story?”

“I didn't tell the story at all," the man answered with a smile “I only said to thestudents,'Our American friend has just told us a very interesting story. Now please laugh.