古德明英语军事小故事：墨索里尼为什么不洗袜子?(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。
墨索里尼为什么不洗袜子?
in the world of children's magazines during world warⅡ, an assortment of heroes helped to defeat the enemy. while children in america pored over comics showing superman baring his knuckles at the nazis, the hotspur* in britain carried stories about a mythical school whose sports master was called away on secret service work. young readers blinked back their tears when he was killed.
the beano's* favourite figure of fun was mussolini. his generals were capable of every kind of stupidity, even supplying their troops with spaghetti for bootlaces. the beano also put a few riddles before its readers."why does musso never change his socks?" asked one. "because he smells defeat." fearing that readers might fail to spot the pun, the editors added"de feet" in brackets.
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