古德明英语军事小故事：法 国 人 是 怎 样 的 ？ (中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。法 国 人 是 怎 样 的 ？
french soldiers who went to help the americans during the american revolution often found that their hosts had strange ideas about them. one day, the chevalier de pontgibaud entered the house of a farmer upon whom he was billeted. the farmer said, "i'm very glad to have a frenchman in the house. you see the barber lives a long way off so you'll be able to shave me." "but i can't even shave myself," de pontgibaud replied. "that's very odd," said the farmer. "i was told that all frenchmen were barbers."
soon afterwards the farmer served him some beef, and said, "you're lucky to be able to come over to america and get good beef to eat." when the frenchman assured him that they had beef in france and excellent beef too, the american responded, "that's impossible, or you wouldn't be so thin."
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