两个父亲,两个儿子

两个父亲和两个儿子都是好猎手:熟悉山区地形,了解野兽出没情况, 枪法熟练,百发百中。

有一天,他们上山打虎,打死了三只老虎,每人背一只死老虎,全部回到家里。

同学们,听了这个故事一定会产生一个问题:

How can this be—that two fathers and two sons carry onlythree tigers, but each has one?

(怎么会这样呢——两个父亲和两个儿子只背了三只老虎,怎么会每人有一只呢?)

你能看懂这个英语答案吗?

Three people went hunting : grandfather , father andgrandson.The father is both a son and a father.

其实是:(三个人去打猎:祖父、父亲、孙子。做父亲的这个人,既是祖父的儿子,又是孙子的父亲。)