I found a hilarious short story on Twitter. It’s categorized under “The shocking words from doctors” hashtag in Japanese. Here’s the story.
The scene: A brain tumor is found
Doctor: It’s not a malignant tumor, but it’s located in a bad place.
Patient: What?!
Doctor: For example, let’s say that stomach cancer is similar a brown bear in the wilderness. It’s ferocious but easy to shoot and kill.
Patient: What do you mean?
Doctor: Let’s just say that your brain tumor, is like a goat in the middle of a commuter train in the middle of the morning rush hour in Shinjuku station.
Patient: Wow! That’s really tough!
When I read this tweet, I couldn’t stop reading the same hashtag stories to (1)catch up on similar stories. There are a lot of funny stories, but I can’t (3)chip in because I don’t have such kind of episodes. Even if I have the experience, I wouldn’t (4)bend over backward to try to tweet something funny. Those people have a good talent to create a new world of humor in the dark side of life. I don’t think that I can(2)catch up with those talented people. I’m jealous of that ability.
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title: The shocking words from doctor
I found a hilarious short story on Twitter. It’s categorized “The shocking words from doctor” hashtag in Japanese. Here is the story.
The scene: Brain tumor found
Doctor: It’s not a malignant tumor, but the place is bad.
Patient: What?
Doctor: For example, Stomach cancer is a brown bear in a wilderness. It’s ferocious but easy to shoot and kill.
Patient: What do you mean?
Doctor: Your brain tumor, it’s like a goat suddenly appeared in rush hour commuting train in Shinjuku station in the morning.
Patient: Wow! It’s a really tough situation.
When I’ve read this tweet, I couldn’t stop to read same hashtag story for (1)catch up on the similar story. There are a lot of funny stories, but I can’t (3)chip in because I don’t have such kind of episodes. Even if I have these experience, it’s difficult for me to (4)bend over backward to try to funny tweet. Those people have a good talent to create a new world of humor in dark side of life. I don’t think that I (2)catch up with those talented people. I’m jealous to that ability.
homework:
1) catch up on: Acquire information you have missed.
(e.g.) “I must call my mother to catch up on the latest family events.”
2)catch up with: Reach the same stage as someone else.
(e.g.) “I’ve missed some classes so I’ll have to work hard to catch up with the others.”
3)chip in: Contribute to or participate in something done by a group.
(e.g.) “Bob has decided to retire and we’re going to buy him a present. Do you want to chip in? ”
4)bend over backwards: If you bend over backwards, you try very hard to do something, especially to please somebody.
(e.g.) The manager bent over backwards to try to make Jack stay, but Jack wouldn’t change his mind.