ジョークを英語で解釈してみましょう【英会話を電話、スマホ、スカイプで トークライン】

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以下は笑い話で一読後ニヤリとしていればよい類のものですがこれをまじめに英語で解釈してみませんか?英会話の話題としてご利用頂けるほかフェイスブックページの英文添削コーナーで英文添削も承ります。

 

An accountant answered an advertisement for a top job with a large firm.  At the end of the interview, the chairman said, “One last question — what is three times seven?”  The accountant thought for a moment and replied, “Twenty-two.”

 

Outside he checked himself on his calculator and concluded he had lost the job.  But two weeks later he was offered the post.  He asked the chairman why he had been appointed when he had given the wrong answer.

 

“You were the closest,” the chairman replied.

(トークラインのご利用者様にお送りしている10月9日付のHANDOUTの一部で、The Reader’s Digestからの転載です)