有两个大款附庸风雅，参加一个冷餐会。与会者中自然不乏真正的名流学者。席间，一位学者与其中的大款甲闲聊，话题不知怎么扯到莎士比亚身上。学者问大款甲：“先生是否对莎士比亚最有兴趣”大款甲顿了顿，旋即正色道：“相比之下，还是威士忌合我口味。”这时，大家都暗自窃笑。大款乙也看出了苗头，悻悻然走开。在回来的小车上，大款乙教训大款甲说：“你真一点都不懂，莎士比亚是饮料，你怎么把它当洋酒了!”
参考答案：Two moneyed men went to a buffet reception where they expect to mingle with men of letters and pose as well-educated persons. There were of course real celebrities and scholars. At the party, a scholar was chatting with moneybag A, and somehow they found themselves drifting to the topic of Shakespeare.//
The scholar asked moneybag A: "It seems you are most interested in Shakespeare, aren’t you " Pausing for a second, moneybag A said with a severe countenance: "Compared with that, whisky is more to my taste. "//
Hearing his answer, everyone laughed up their sleeves. Moneybag B noticed that there was something wrong, so he moved away in a huff. On their way back in the car, he gave moneybag A a dressing-down. "You really don’t know a thing. Shakespeare is a soft drink. How could you take it for a foreign wine \