belajar idiom-idiom bahasa inggris dari garfield

Anda suka Garfield? The laziest cat on earth. Saya suka tersenyum-senyum sendiri saat membaca comic strip-nya. Humornya cerdas. Bahkan saya berani menganjurkan Garfield untuk belajar Bahasa Inggris. Di sini Anda dapat belajar mengenai idiom-idiom dalam Bahasa Inggris.

Oh ya, Anda mungkin harus membaca beberapa edisode Garfield dulu untuk tertawa. Karena kadang humornya berkaitan dengan karakter dari tokoh-tokonya.

 

jangan salahkan saya jika saya tidak tertawa

pernah bertanya mengapa kita tertawa? jika dipikir-pikir memang pertanyaannya tidak masuk akal. tapi jika direnung-renung (perasaan tidak berbeda sama dipikir-pikir) kok rasanya aneh juga.

coba, tertawa itu apa? marah mungkin terjadi karena ada sesuatu yang membuat kita tidak nyaman. ketidaknyamanan itu membuat kita berontak untuk mendapatkan kembali kenyamanan. marah adalah salah satu impulse yang terjadi untuk mendapatkan kembali kenyamanan itu.

tertawa? seseorang mengatakan sesuatu yang mungkin tidak realistis, dan kita tertawa. seseorang mengejek penampilan fisik seseorang dan tertawa. apa sebenarnya di balik ketawa itu?

mungkin tertawa adalah proses sosial dan bukan proses biologis. tertawa selalu membutuhkan kontesk sosialnya. tertawa termasuk ke dalam budaya. berbeda dengan marah yang termasuk ke dalam kajian psikologis.

oleh karena itu, setiap budaya memiliki karakter leluconnya sendiri. betulkah?

 

bukan anak kecil lagi

Dapat dari temen dari sebuah milis:

PERHATIKAN GAMBAR DI BAWAH INI…
APA YANG ANDA LIHAT?
SILAKAN BACA PENJELASANNYA
INI SANGAT MENARIK…

Apakah anda melihat gambar pasangan dalam pose yang intim?

Yang menarik, penelitian menunjukkan bahwa anak-anak tidak bisa melihat gambar pasangan dalam pose yang intim karena mereka tidak memiliki memori utama yang diasosiasikan dengan gambaran seperti itu.

Apa yang AKAN dilihat oleh anak-anak di dalam gambar di atas, adalah sembilan lumba-lumba!

Tapi, setidaknya kita sudah membuktikan bahwa anda sama sekali bukanlah anak-anak…
Sekarang… jika cukup sukar bagi anda untuk menemukan gambar lumba-lumba itu dalam enam detik, itu berarti otak anda sudah sangat rusak dan anda mungkin membutuhkan pertolongan, karena otak anda sebenarnya sedang sakit!

Ok, ini s edi kit bantuan… perhatikan pada celah (yang berwarna gelap) antara lengan kanan pria dan kepala w ani ta, ekornya ada di leher w ani ta, dan ikuti gambar itu. kemudian, lihatlah ke pinggul sebelah kiri w ani ta, ikuti gambar yang gelap ke bawah, seekor lumba-lumba lagi anda temukan disitu. lihat juga pada bagian bahunya…dan seterusnya.. .
apakah anda sudah menemukan ke-9 lumba-lumba itu sekarang?

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pertama kali liat langsung melihat satu pasangan tengah intim. nah lo, setelah terus baca, dan tau kalo ada sembilan lumba-lumba di sana, coba untuk menarik napas dan melihat gambar itu lama-lama. ternyata susah juga melihat sembilan lumba-lumba di antara gambar cowok dan cewek itu ya. itu sembilan, apalagi satu ya? hehehe…otak saya aja kali yang udah ngeres melulu ..wah, memang sudah bukan anak kecil lagi nih..

 

Memory Class

An elderly couple had been experiencing declining memories, so they decided to take a power memory class where one is taught to remember things by association.

A few days after the class, the old man was outside talking with his neighbor about how much the class helped him.

“What was the name of the Instructor?” asked the neighbor.

“Oh, ummmm, let’s see,” the old man pondered. “You know that flower, you know, the one that smells really nice but has those prickly thorns, what’s that flower’s name?”

“A rose?” asked the neighbor.

“Yes, that’s it,” replied the old man. He then turned toward his house and shouted, “Hey, Rose, what’s the name of the Instructor we took the memory class from?”

 

Man went to confession

Man: Father, during the war, a beautiful young lady asked me to hide her from the enemy, so I hid her in the attic.
Father: That’s a very good gesture, you need not confess.
Man: But as the days went, she repaid me with daily sexual favors.
Father: That is still forgiven my son.
Man: But I have another question.
Father: What is it my son?
Man: Shall I tell her the war is over?

 

The Contractors

Three contractors . . . one from India, another from Germany and the third from England are bidding to repair the White House fence. A senior White House official takes them to examine it.
The English contractor : takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works on some figures with a pencil. “Well,” he says. “I figure the job will cost $900 . . . $400 for materials, $400 for labour and $100 profit for me.”
The German contractor : also does some measuring and figuring, then says, “I can do this job for $700 . . . $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me.”

 

Smoker and none

A man sees another leaning against the wall of a large building. The second man is puffing away, one cigarette after another.
The nonsmoker says, “Sir, I couldn`t help noticing how you chain smoke. How many packs do you smoke a day?”
“Four.”
“How long have you been smoking?”
“Thirty years.”
“That`s over six thousand packs. If you didn`t smoke, you could have saved enough money to buy this building.”
The smoker takes a deep puff and says, “Do you smoke?”
“Never.”
“Do you own this building?”
“No.”
“Well, I do.”

 

A nice example of a letter

How to ask your Boss for a salary increase..?

One day an employee sends a letter to Her boss asking for an increase in her salary !!!

Dear Bo$$
In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing$ mo$t de $perately. I think you $hould be under $tanding of the need$ of your worker$ who have given $ o much $upport including $weat and $ervice to your company .

I am $ure you will gue $$ what I mean and re$pond $oon.

$ incerely Your$,
Marian $hih
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The next day, the employee received a nice reply like this :

 

The boy’s question

a boy asks his father the ‘it’ question

“daddy, i know that baby comes from mommy’s tummy, but how can he get there in the first place?”

his fathers gapes, thinking hard for proper reason and explanation. seeing his father’s anxiety, the kid utters in disgust

“it’s okay if you don’t know the answer, daddy, you don’t have to lie”

 

All the same

One Chinese person walks into a bar in America late one night and he saw Steven Spielberg.

As he was a great fan of his movies, he rushes over to him, and asks for his autograph. Instead, Spielberg gives him a slap and says “You Chinese people bombed our Pearl Harbor, get out of here.”

The astonished Chinese man replied “It was not the Chinese who bombed your Pearl Harbor, it was the Japanese”.

“Chinese, Japanese,Taiwanese, you’re all the same,” replied Spielberg.

In return, the Chinese gives Spielberg a slap and says “You sank the Titanic, my forefathers were on that ship.

“Shocked, Spielberg replies “It was the iceberg that sank the ship, not me.

” The Chinese replies, “Iceberg, Spielberg, Carlsberg, you’re all the same.”