Clever Scholars
An engineer, a mathematician and physicist were standing around the university flagpole when an English professor wandered by.” What are you doing?” he asked.
“We need to know the height of the flagpole.” Answered one,” and we’re discussing the formulas we might use to calculate it.”
“watch!” said the English professor. He pulled the pole from its fitting laid it on the grass, borrowed a tape, measured and said,” Exactly 24 feet,” Then he replaced the pole and walked away.
“English professor!’ sneered the mathematician “We ask him for the height, and he gives us the length.”
聪明的学者
一位工程师，一位数学家和一位物理学家站在大学的旗杆下，这时一位英文教授经过那里。“你们在干什么？”他问。
“我们要知道旗杆的高度，”一个说，“我们正在讨论可以用来计算的公式。”
“看看！”英文教授说。他把旗杆从移动装置上拿下来，放在草地上，借了一根带尺，量完以后说：“整整24英尺。”然后他放回杆子走了。
“英文教授！”数学家嘲笑着说。“我们问他高度，他给我们的是长度。”
