听笑话学英语29:A Letter of Apology 道歉信
Lisa, my coworker at the bus company, needed to send a letter of apology to a customer whose trip was a complete fiasco（n. 惨败） from start to finish. I reminded her of a similar situation a year earlier, and dug out the letter I had written then.
我在公共汽车公司的同事Lisa，有一次需要给一位整个行程一团糟的顾客寄一封道歉信。我提醒她一年前我遭遇过类似情形，并翻出我那时写的道歉信，告诉她：
“ All you have to do," I told her," is changing the details, the date and the name." She looked it over and smiled wryly." We do not need to change the name."
“你所要做的就是修改一下细节，日期和姓名。” 她看完信，苦笑道：“连名字都不用改”。
英语单词短语学习：
1 fiasco
n. 惨败
eg：The currency fiasco will accelerate these trends.
货币改革的惨败将会加快这些趋势。
短语
General Fiasco 表演者
Florentine fiasco 佛罗伦萨的惨败
Fiasco Records 出版者
Football fiasco 一败涂地的足球
factory fiasco 混乱工厂
Peter Fiasco 彼得彻底失败
Lupe Fiasco 卢普·菲亚斯科 ; 菲亚斯科 ; 鲁佩·菲亚斯科 ; 路沛费艾斯可
Snow Fiasco 年不列顛群岛暴风雪
rivergate fiasco 所谓的河门事件
2 wryly
adv. 挖苦地；表情冷漠地
eg：I'll never forget when my husband wryly asked if I packed my 'Swimming Frock' when we were heading out to Nantucket.
我一直记得，当我们要去南塔基特岛时，我丈夫挖苦我是否把我的游泳连衣裙带好了。
短语
I Smiled Wryly 我笑苦笑
She Thought Wryly 她想挖苦
He Commented Wryly 他挖苦说
He Smiled Wryly 他微笑着苦笑
He Said Wryly 他苦笑着说
It is wryly relevant today 讽刺的是现实与往事竟是如此相似