次のジョークは既に10年程前に私のブログで紹介しているのですが、度重なるブログの引っ越しでどこかに消えてしまいました。(Because I didn't save.)キリスト信者では全くありませんが、コンピュータ時代なのでこの教訓は今でも有効なので再度取り上げました。
Jesus and Satan have a discussion as to who is the better programmer. This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest, with God as the judge. They sit themselves at their computers and begin. They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several hours straight. Seconds before the end of the competition, a bolt of lightning strikes, taking out the electricity. Moments later, the power is restored, and God announces that the contest is over.
He asks Satan to show what he has come up with. Satan is visibly upset, and cries, "I have nothing. I lost it all when the power went out."
"Very well, then," says God, "let us see if Jesus fared any better."
Jesus enters a command, and the screen comes to life in vivid display, the voices of an angelic choir pour forth from the speakers. Satan is astonished.
He stutters, "B-b-but how? I lost everything, yet Jesus' program is intact. How did he do it?"
God smiled all-knowingly, "Jesus saves."
英語としては "fare" の上の用例もしっかりと覚えたい。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Perform in a specified way in a particular situation or over a particular period of time: ‘the party fared badly in the spring elections’
私の好きなVocabulary.comは次の様に "fare" に三つの意味があると説明しています。
It's not fair that fare means three unrelated things. Get along: "Fare thee well." Cost of travel: "Train fare is ten dollars." Food: "Tatertots is typical cafeteria fare."
To remember fare's different meanings, think of how, for people living close to the bone, the question "How are you eating/faring?" is not so different from "How are you getting along/faring?" And when you pay plane fare and fly to France, you will most assuredly be eating French fare once you get there.