He Understands!

Two Americans were traveling in Spain. One morning they came into a little restaurant for lunch, They did not know Spanish, and their waiter did not know English. They wanted him to understand that they wanted some milk and sandwiches.

　　At first they pronounced the word "milk" many times. Then they spelled it. But the waiter could not understand them.

　　At last one of them took a piece of paper and began to drew a cow. He was finishing his drawing, when the waiter looked at it and ran out of the restaurant.

　　"Do you see," said one of the travelers, "what a pencil can do for a man who had difficulties in a foreign country1"

　　The waiter was back again some time later, but he brought no milk.

　　He put down in front of the two men tickets for a bull-fight.

他懂了！

　　有两个美国人在西班牙旅游观光。有天上午，他们走进一家小餐馆吃午饭。他们不懂西班牙语，服务员也不懂英语。他们想让他知道他们要一些牛奶和三明治。

　　起初，他们说了好几遍“牛奶”这个词，然后，他们又把它拼写出来。但服务员还是没搞懂。

　　最后，其中一个拿出一张纸开始画一母牛。在他快画完时，服务员看了看画，随即就冲出了饭馆。

　　“看到了吧，”其中一名游客说，“一个人在异国他乡遇到困难时，一支铅笔能有多大作用！”

　　过了一段时间，服务员回来了，但他并没有带来牛奶。

　　他把两张斗牛票放在了这两位旅游者的面前。