有只蚊子只叮鼠、牛、虎、兔、龙、蛇、马、羊、猴、鸡和猪请问这只蚊子的名字叫啥?
答案:布丁狗(不叮狗)
There is a mosquito who only bites rats,cows,tigers,rabbits,dragons,snakes,horses,goats,monkeys,chicken and pigs,what’s the name of the mosquito?
Answer:purin dog
Couldn’t see the relation between the mosquito and its name? I’ll show you in the following.
First,I need you to keep the pronuciation of purin dog in chinese in your mind-布丁狗。布丁is directly translated from purin and 狗 is dog.
Second, remember although bite can be translated into different words in Chinese, we Chinese usually use the word 叮 to express being bitten by mosquitos.
Third, I have told you in an early lesson 不 means no.
Now, let’s put the three words together 不叮狗,don’t bite dog. If you still remember the pronunciation of purin dog in chinese, you must notice that 不叮狗 have the same prunuciation with 布丁狗 .
Now, we figure out purin dog has something in common with the name of the strange mosquito. But we still need to find out where the dog comes from,?why the answer is don’t bite dog instead of other animals.
To solve the problem, you must know about Chinese Zodiac. Chinese Zodiac has 12 animals, ench animal represent a year, and twelve years is a round, and the animals have a fixed order, that is鼠rat、牛cow、虎tiger、兔rabbit、龙dragon、蛇snake、马horse、羊goat、猴monkey、鸡chicken、狗dog、猪pig. Now we back to the joke, we’ll find out the joke described the food the mosquito only eats, it contains almost all aninmals in Chinese Zodiac except dog.
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