I complimented one of my co-workers on having lost ten pounds. However, I couldn't resist bragging that when I was 17, 1 weighed 225 pounds and today I tip the scales at 224. 1 added, "That's not bad for a man of my age."

Overhearing this, a woman remarked, "You mean to say it took you all this time to lose one pound?"

Notes:

(1) compliment (sb. on sth. ) v.恭维；称赞

(2) brag v.自夸；夸耀

(3) tip the scale at称量