理所当然

 THE SCHOOL HEALTH FORMS had been distributed¹ to the students with an error---the word "Sex" had been spelled with an "o". One mother, filling out the form for her son, wrote in the blank next to "Sox": "Usually brown."

　　某学校发给学生的健康调查表里有个错别字——把“性别”的“性”字写成了“袜”字。一位母亲在为她的儿子填写表格时，在“袜别”的那栏填上了：“棕色为主。”

　　[注] 英语中sex（性）与sox（袜）只有一个字母之差。