40 Who's who

It has never been explained why university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else.

谁也弄不清为什么大学生好像比任何人都更喜欢恶作剧。

Students specialize in a particular type of practical joke: the hoax.

大学生擅长一种特殊的恶作剧一戏弄人。

Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-respecting student would ever indulge in.

请消防队来扑灭一场根本没有的大火是一种低级骗局,有自尊心的大学生决不会去做。

Students often create amusing situations which are funny to everyone except the victims.

大学生们常常做的是制造一种可笑的局面，使大家笑上一场,当然受害者是笑不出来的。

When a student recently saw two workmen using a pneumatic drill outside his university, he immediately telephoned the police and informed them that two students dressed up as workmen were tearing up the road with a pneumatic drill.

最近有个学生看见两个工人在大学校门外用风钻干活,马上打电话报告警察,说有两个学生装扮成工人,正在用风钻破坏路面。

As soon as he had hung up, he went over to the workmen and told them that if a policeman ordered them to go away, they were not to take him seriously.

挂上电话后,他又马上来到工人那儿,告诉他们若有个警察来让他们走开,不要把他当回事;