英語笑話(7.04):The stupid letter

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Two psychiatrists were at a convention. “What was your most difficult case?” one asked the other.
    “Once I had a patient who lived in a pure fantasy world,” replied his colleague. “He believed that a wildly rich uncle in South America was going to leave him a fortune. All day long he waited for a makebelieve letter to arrive from a fictitious attorney. He never went out or did anything. He just sat around and waited.”
    “What was the result?”
    “It was an eightyear struggle, but I finally cured him. And then that stupid letter arrived...”
    兩個精神病專家在一次會議上碰見了。其中一個問另一個:“你最棘手的病例是什么樣的?”
    “我曾有過一個病人,他生活在一個純幻想的世界里,”他的同行回答?!八麍孕拍厦烙袀€大富翁叔叔要留給他一筆遺產(chǎn)。他整天等待著從一個虛構(gòu)的律師那兒收到證實信。他從不出門,無所事事,只是坐著干等?!?BR>    “結(jié)果如何?”
    “經(jīng)過長達(dá)8年的努力,我終于把他給治好了??删驮谀菚r,那封荒唐的信到了……”