6 Ch6-Computers Can't Tell Jokes

Chapter 6 Computers Can't Tell Jokes We were still depressed about the junk food shortage when we got to computer class that afternoon. When we walked into the lab, Mrs. Yonkers was sitting on top of her desk, and her computer was on her chair. That was weird. You're supposed to sit on your chair with the computer on your desk. It was also weird that Mrs. Yonkers had no shoes on. She was typing with hertoes. "Why are you typing with your toes, Mrs. Yonkers?" asked Emily.

第六章电脑不会讲笑话那天下午上电脑课时，我们还在为垃圾食品短缺感到沮丧。 当我们走进实验室时，扬克斯夫人正坐在她的桌子上，她的电脑放在她的椅子上。 这很奇怪。你应该坐在椅子上，把电脑放在桌子上。 扬克斯太太没穿鞋也很奇怪。 她在用脚趾打字。 “你为什么用脚趾头打字，扬克斯太太?”艾米丽问。

"I have so much work to do," she told us. "When I type with my feet, it leaves my hands free to do something else. So I get twice as much work done. It's a win-win!" "What are you typing, Mrs. Yonkers?" asked Andrea. "E-mails," she replied. "To who?" asked Ryan. "To myself," Mrs. Yonkers said. "I love getting e-mail." It seemed to me that Mrs. Yonkers would get twice as much work done if she didn't spend half her time writing e-mails to herself. Why are grown-ups so weird? "Did you find Speedy the turtle?" asked Neil the nude kid. "Not yet," said Mrs. Yonkers. "I've been too busy thinking about Mr. Klutz's problem." "What problem?" asked Emily. "The other day he said it was too bad there isn't a computer program that makes up jokes," Mrs. Yonkers said. "So I started working on one. It's called Giggle." "Oooh, can we try it?" I asked. "Please? Please? Please? Please?" "Well... okay." Mrs. Yonkers pulled a sheet off a computer in the corner and turned it on. The screen showed the word GIGGLE with an empty box under it. Mrs. Yonkers told us that if you type any word in the box, Giggle will make up a joke about that word. "Skateboarding!" I shouted.

“我有很多工作要做，”她告诉我们。 “当我用脚打字时，我的手就可以腾出来做其他事情。 所以我完成了两倍的工作。 这是双赢!”“你在打什么，扬克斯太太?”安德烈问。 “电子邮件，”她回答。“给谁?”瑞恩问。 “对我自己，”扬克斯太太说。 “我喜欢收到电子邮件。”在我看来，如果扬克斯太太不把一半的时间花在给自己写电子邮件上，她就能完成两倍的工作。 为什么大人这么奇怪? “你找到乌龟斯皮迪了吗?”裸体小孩尼尔问。 “还没有，”扬克斯太太说。 “我一直在忙着想克鲁茨先生的问题。” “什么问题?”艾米丽问。 “前几天他说，没有一个能编笑话的电脑程序真是太糟糕了，”扬克斯太太说。 “所以我开始研究一个。 它叫《咯咯笑》。”“哦，我们能试试吗?”我问。 “请吗?好吗?好吗?请?”“嗯…… 好吧。”扬克斯太太从角落里的电脑上扯下一张被单，打开了电脑。 屏幕上显示了“GIGGLE”这个词，下面是一个空盒子。 扬克斯太太告诉我们，如果你在盒子里输入任何单词，“傻笑”就会用这个单词编一个笑话。 “滑板!”我叫道。

"Flowers!" Andrea shouted. "Boogers!" Michael shouted. We called out all kinds of suggestions until Neil the nude kid said, "Pig!" We all agreed it would be cool to read jokes about pigs. Mrs. Yonkers typed PIG in the box and hit the ENTER key. The computer thought about it for a few seconds, and then it showed us a pig joke: Q: WHY DO PIGS GO OINK? A: BECAUSE FIREMEN BANANA STOMACH PITCHFORK! "I don't get it," said Andrea. "That doesn't make any sense," said Emily. "Computers aren't very good at understanding language," said Mrs. Yonkers. "I'm still ironing out some of the bugs." I didn't get the joke either, but I started laughing my head off anyway. If Andrea doesn't think something is funny, it must be. "Firemen banana stomach pitchfork!" I howled. "That's hilarious!" Ryan and Michael and Neil the nude kid joined in too. Soon the whole class was cracking up, except Andrea and Emily. "You're a bunch of dumbheads," Andrea said. I must admit, that pig joke was actually pretty lame. But it was just as funny as Mr. Klutz's jokes, if you ask me.

“花!”安德里亚喊道。 “附!”迈克尔喊道。 我们提出了各种各样的建议，直到那个裸体小孩尼尔说:“猪!”我们都认为读关于猪的笑话很酷。 扬克斯太太在盒子里输入了PIG，然后按了回车键。 电脑想了几秒钟，然后给我们看了一个关于猪的笑话:问:为什么猪会发出呼噜声? A:因为消防员香蕉肚子干草叉!“我不明白，”安德烈说。 “这说不通啊，”爱米丽说。 “电脑不擅长理解语言，”扬克斯太太说。 “我还在解决一些问题。” 我也没听懂那个笑话，但我还是笑得前仰后合。 如果安德里亚觉得没有什么好笑的，那一定是有趣的。 “消防员香蕉肚子干草叉!”我号啕大哭。 “这是搞笑!”瑞安、迈克尔和尼尔这个裸体小孩也加入了进来。 很快，除了安德里亚和艾米丽，全班同学都笑了起来。 “你们是一群傻瓜，”安德里亚说。 我必须承认，那个关于猪的笑话真的很蹩脚。 但要我说，这和克鲁茨先生的笑话一样有趣。