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英语小知识分享

发表日期:2017-5-7 作者:长沙湖南大学家教网 电话:170-5118-4005

 长沙家教网的老师最近搜集了一些有关英语的小知识,对于我们同学学习英语是非常有帮助的。希望我们的同学们能够好好记住,这对于我们做阅读或者听力等内容是非常有帮助的。

1 According to a research project at Cambridge Uiversity, it doesn’t matter what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place. This is because the human mind does not read every letter

  剑桥大学的研究表明:单词中字母的顺序如何不重要,重要的是第一个和最后一个字母的位置。这是因为大脑在阅读时不会读到所有字母。

  2’WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW’. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it’ll give the same sentence

  (我看到的是一辆车还是一只猫)这是英语中唯一一句反过来念还是一样的句子。

  3"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you"

  英语单词Goodbye”来自于“God bye”,原意是“上帝与你同在”。

  4The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog."uses every letter of the alphabet!

  (这只敏捷的棕色狐狸跳过了一只懒狗)这句话用到了字母表中的所有字母!

  5"Go", is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

  Go”是英语中最短的完整句子。

  6The onion is named after the Latin word ’unio’ meaning large pearl

  单词onion(洋葱)来自于拉丁词“unio”,意思是大珍珠。

  7The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for ’To Insure Prompt Service’

  单词tips(小费)实际上是“To Insure Prompt Service(保障快捷的服务)的首字母缩写!

  8The phrase ’rule of thumb’ is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb

  词组rule of thumb(经验法则),是从一条古老的英国法律中来的,即:不能用超过大拇指粗细的东西打老婆。

  9The longest word in the English language ispneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!

  英语中最长的单词是pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses(硅酸盐沉着病)!

  10More people in China speak English than in the United States

  会说英语的中国人比会说英语的美国人还多。

  11The word "listen" contains the same letters as"silent"

  单词listen()和“silent(安静的)用到了一样的字母。

  12Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering

  胡佛真空吸尘器在英国曾经非常流行,到现在很多人还把vacuuming(吸尘)说成“hoovering(胡佛ing)

  13Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards

  Stressed(压力)倒过来拼就是“Desserts(点心)

  14The most used letter in the English alphabet is ’E’, and’Q’ is the least used!

  英语中使用最多的字母是E”,用得最少的是“Q”。

  15Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", whichcontains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!

  作家厄尔尼斯特•文森特•莱特曾经写过一篇5万字的小说《葛士比》,里面没有一个字母“E!