1、Hello第1页你知道单词Goodbye由来是什么吗?你知道tips本意是什么吗?你知道英语中最长单词是怎么来吗?学累了书本上枯燥英语语法,不如来见识一下英语有趣一面,还有更多有趣英语知识等候你发掘哦!第2页1.WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.WASITACARORACATISAW.This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse,itll give the same sentence.“WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW”(我看到是一辆车还是一只猫)这是英语中唯一一
2、句反过来念还是一样句子。第3页2.Aoccdring to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervitisy,it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the itteers in a lsat ltteerbe in the rghit pclae.This is bcuseae the human mnid deos not raed ervey lteter.剑桥大学研究表明:单词中字母次序怎样不主要,主要是第一个和最终一个字母位置。这是因为大脑在阅读时不会读到全部字母。第4页3.“Goodbye”came from“God bye
3、”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”。4.The sentence“The quick browm fox jumps over a lazy dog.”uses every letter of the alphabet!“The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.”(这只灵敏棕色狐狸跳过了一只懒狗)这句话用到了字母表中全部字母。第5页5.Go,is the shortest comlete sentence in the English lang
4、uage.“Go”是英语中最短完整句子。6.The onion is named affter 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。第6页7.The phrase rule of thumb is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldnt beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.词组“rule of thumb”(经验法则),是从一条古老应该
5、法律来,即:不能用超出大拇指粗细东西打老婆。第7页8.The 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”(保障快捷服务)首字母缩写!第8页9.The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!英语中最长单词是“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoc
6、onioses”(硅盐酸从容病)!第9页10.More people in China speal English than in the United States.会说英语中国人比会说英语美国人还多。11.The word“listen”contains the same letters as“silent.”单词“listen”(听)和“silent”(平静)用到了一样字母。第10页12.Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering
7、.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.)。第11页13.Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel,“Gadsby”,which contains 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5万字小说葛士比,里面没有一个字母“E”!第12页14.Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.“Stressed”(压力)倒过来拼就是“Desserts”(点心)。15.The most used leyyer in the English alphabat is E,and Q is the least used!英语中使用最多字母是“E”,用得最少是“Q”。第13页