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Mensa

2015年01月09日 | 英語の本を読む

Reader's Digest 10月号の特集 "25 JOKES THAT MAKE YOU SOUND LIKE A GENIUS" からの引用です。
Nothing has scrambled more brains than the sight of numerals waiting to be added, subtracted, divided, multiplied or fractioned. So if you can tell a digit-laden joke without stumbling, get ready for a phone call from Mensa!
大文字で始まっている単語 "Mensa" は何でしょう?
・Oxford English Dictionary: An international organization founded in England in 1945 whose members must achieve very high scores in IQ tests to be admitted.
・Collins Dictionary: an international society, membership of which is restricted to people whose intelligence test scores exceed those expected of 98 per cent of the population: Mikhail Ali, from the northern English city of Leeds, was admitted to Mensa after undergoing tests at the University of York.
凡人の私にはお呼びでない会でした。

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