【读新闻学英语】试问排版多重要？老母亲衷心祝福秒变下流玩笑

As their little ones fly the nest for the start of university many parents will be finding their own ways to say goodbye.

每当孩子准备离家远走开启大学生活，很多家长都会选择用自己的方式来告别。

Fly the nest：远走高飞

And in a sweet gesture one well-meaning mother, from the UK, decided to bake her son a cake to wish him luck, however it appeared to say something much ruder than she intended.

为了预祝儿子一切顺利，一位英国的好妈妈决定下厨烤制蛋糕。然而，当妈妈在蛋糕上留下祝福语时，效果却远比她想象的无礼。

Well-meaning：善良的

The hilarious blunder was shared on the SubReddit Casual UK by a friend of the woman under the username u/Yellow-SP.

作为母亲朋友，名为u/Yellow-SP的女网友在社交网站SubReddit Casual UK分享了这个令人捧腹的错误。

Blunder：错误

The photo shows a sponge cake iced with the message "Good luck @UNI", however, due to the placement of the letters many have pointed out it looks more like "Good luck c***".

图片中，一个海绵蛋糕上饰以“Good luck @UNI”的字样，意为大学生活好运。由于单词排列的问题，这句祝福语却莫名看起来像“Good luck cuni”。（不忍直视，爱学习的读者请自行查阅。）

Be iced with：饰以

Captioning the image, which was shared on Wednesday, the Redditor wrote: "A friend made a cake for her son last week."

周三，这张照片被分享至网络，配文写道：上周，我朋友给她儿子做了块蛋糕。

Caption：字幕，标题

The unfortunate mistake left Redditors in stitches amassing hundreds of comments from tickled users, who were quick to share witty responses.

这个不幸的错误让Reddit用户乐不可支，笑破肚皮的网友立马贡献上百条回复，分享机智评论。

Be in stitches：大笑，忍俊不禁

Amass：积累，积聚

Witty：诙谐的

One wrote: "Delighted to see the little s*** finally leave after eighteen long years."

网友写道：忍了18年啊，终于要把儿子送走了。

Replying another added: "Bake him a cake. Give him a slap on the back. Then kick that c*** off to uni."

另一名网友回复：送一个蛋糕，好好祝贺一下他，然后让xx滚去大学。

A slap on the back：祝贺

"Absolute gold- when you head says 'Good Luck @ Uni', but your heart says 'Get the f*** out of my house'" wrote another.

“太妙了！嘴里说着祝校园生活好运，心里想的是赶紧滚出去。”

Meanwhile another suggested she had intentionally written the message that way adding: "She knew what she was doing".

还有人认为母亲是故意的，“她知道自己在干嘛”。

Intentionally：故意的

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