有一個小夥子急匆匆地跑進市圖書館。他向一個年老的圖書管理員走過去，並且急切地對她說：“你還記得一星期前你勸說我借的那本關於希臘史的書嗎？”

“對的，有這麼回事，”圖書管理員回答。

“你還記得那本書的名字嗎？”小夥子問。

A young man hurried into his town library 。 He went up to one of the old librarians and said to her eagerly ， ‘Do you remember that you persuaded me to borrow a book about Greek history a week ago ？’

‘Yes ，that’s right，‘ answered the librarian 。

’Do you remember the name of the book ？‘

這個圖書管理員感到很自豪，因為她老是設法使年輕人借希臘史方面的書籍，不過她發現很少有人願意接受她的建議。

“記得，”她回答說：“你想再借嗎？你是不是覺得那本書十分有意思？”

The librarian felt very proud ， because she was always trying to get young people to take out books about Greek history ， and she rarely found one who was willing to accept her suggestions 。

’Yes，‘ she answered 。 ’Do you want to take it out again ？ Did you think that it was so interesting ？‘

“不，當然不是，”小夥子說：“可是當我帶著書回家時，我在公共汽車上遇見了一個姑娘，我把她的電話號碼寫在書上了。我想給她打電話，我可以再看看那本書嗎？”

’No ， of course not ，‘ said the young man ， but when I was taking it home ， I met a girl on the bus ， and I wrote her telephone number in the book 。 I want to telephone her ， so please may I look at the book again ？’

小夥子在意的不是圖書館管理員推薦給他的書籍內容，這是個美麗的誤會，年長的圖書館管理員以為小夥子喜歡她推薦的書籍，可是小夥子在意的是書中記錄女孩的電話號碼。真的是醉翁之意不在酒啊。不知道圖書管理員臉上是不是寫滿了大寫的“尷尬”。