英语绕口令、谜语、笑话.doc

英语谜语
1. What room has no walls, no doors, no windows, and no floors?
A mushroom.(蘑菇)
2. What is smaller than an insect's mouth?
Anything it eats.
3. What large instrument do you carry in your ears?
Drums, that is eardrums.(鼓膜)
4. What's too much for one, just right for two, but nothing at all for three?
A secret.
5. What person tried to make you smile most of the time?
A photographer.
6. What animal has a head like a cat, eyes like a cat, a tail like a cat, but isn't a cat?
A kitten.(小猫)
7. What surprising things happen every 24 hours?
Day breaks, but doesn't fall; night falls, but doesn't break.
8. What can hear you without ears and can answer you without a mouth?
An echo.(回声)
9. What do you know about the kings of France?
They are all dead.
10. What question can you never answer 'yes" to"
Are you asleep?
11. Why do some old people never use glasses?
They must prefer bottles to glasses.
12. Why is the person wearing two coats while painting the house?
Because the instructions on the paint can say "Put on two coats for best results."
13. What two words have thousands of letters in them?
Post office.
14. What do workers do in a clock factory?
They make faces all day.
15. What 5-letter word has 6 left when you take 2 letters away?
Sixty.
16. When do you go as fast as a racing car?
When you are in it.
17. How many sides does a house have?
Two - inside and outside.
18. What never asks any questions but always gets answers?
A doorbell.
19. Where did Columbus stand when he discovered America?
On his feet.
20. When the boy fell into the water, what's the first thing he did?
He got wet first of all.
21. Who isn't your sister and isn't your brother, but is still a child of your mother and father?

I myself.
22. What has teeth but cannot eat?
A comb.
23. What kind of man can raise things without lifting them?
A farmer.
24. Why does time fly?
To get away from all the people who are trying to kill it.
25. Name five days of the week without saying: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow.
26. What animal eats and drinks with its tail?
All do. No animal takes off its tail when eating and drinking.
27. What has a soft bed but never sleeps, a big mouth but never speaks?
A river.
28 What kind of dog never bite?
A hot dog.
29. Why does the Statue of Liberty stand in New York Harbor?
Because it can't sit down.
30. What did one invisible man say to the other invisible man?
It's nice not to see you again.
31. What wears a cap but has no head?
A bottle.
32. What rises in the morning and waves all day?
A flag.
33. What is an astronomer?(天文学家)?
A night watchman with a college education.
34. How can you tell clocks and watches are shy?
Because they always have their hands in front of their faces.
35. What is wind?
Air in a hurry.
36. What comes after the letter "A"?
All the other letters.
37. What starts with a T, ends with a T, and is full of T?
Teapot.
38. What word can you make shorter by adding to it?
Short.
39. What person does every man take his hat off to?
A barber.
40. Why does the boy carry a ladder to the school?
Because he wants to go to high school.
41. What can you swallow that can also swallow you?
Water.
42. What's the difference between a hill and a pill?
A hill is hard to get up and a pill is hard to get down.
43. Why is it useless to send a letter to Washington?
Because he's dead.
44. A doctor and a lawyer loved the same girl. The lawyer went away for a week and gave the girl seven apples before he left. Why?
Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
45. What will you do if a man-eating tiger is running after you?
Nothing. Because I'm a woman.
46. What always travels on foot?
A shoe.
47. Where can happiness always be found?
In the dictionary.
48. What is higher without a head than with a head?
A pillow.(枕头)
49. Why don't you advertise for your lost dog?
He can't read.
50. On which side does a bird have the most feathers?
The outside.
51. What is the best thing to keep in hot weather?
Cool!
52. What is never used until it's broken?
An egg.
53. What's a skeleton?(骨架)
It's a lot of bones without the person on them!
54. What is dark but made by light?
A shadow.
55. What can you break with only one word?
Silence.
56. What stays indoors no matter how many times you put it out?
The light.
57. A policeman saw a truck driver going the wrong way down a one-way street, but didn't give him a ticket. Why?
Because the truck driver was walking.
58. Where can milk be best stored?
In a cow.
59. Which can move faster heat or cold?
Heat, because you can catch cold easily.
60. What's the hardest thing about learning skating?
The ice.
61. What has cities with no houses, rivers without water and forests without trees?
A map.
62. What can be measured but has no length, width or thickness?
The temperature.
63. What makes the Tower of Pisa lean?
It never eats.
64. Why is writing called handwriting?
If people wrote with their feet, we would have to call it footwriting.
65. If there were only thre girls in the world, what do you think they would do?
Two of them would get together ans talk about the other one.
66. How many great men have been born in London?
None. Only babies.
67. When can you have an empty pocket and still have something in it?
When you have a hole in your pocket.
68. The greater it is, the less it can be seen. What is it?
Darkness.
69. The more you take away, the bigger I become. What am I?
A hole.
70. Who may marry many a wife and stay single all of his life?
A priest.(牧师)
1.What month do soldiers hate?
--March (三月，行军)

2.How many feet are there in a yard?
--It depends on how many people stand in the yard. (码，院子)

3.Why is an empty purse always the same?
--There is no change in it. (零钱，变化)

4.What book has the most stirring chapters?
--A cook book. (动人的，搅拌的)

5.What kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?
--Hot dog. (热狗)

6.What is the smallest room in the world?
--Mushroom. (蘑菇)

7.What kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?
--Drink well water. (井水，健康的)

8.How do we know the ocean is friendly?
--It waves. (起波浪，招手致意)

9.Which can move faster, heat or cold?
--Heat, because you can catch cold. (追上冷，患感冒)

10.Why is the library the highest building?
--It has the most stories. (故事，（楼）层)

11. What table is in the field?
--Vegetable

12. What is the only thing you can break when you say its name?
--silence

13. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into?
--mirror

14. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and still has a name?
--nothing

15. What changes a pear into a pearl?
--the letter “l”

16. What question can never be answered by 'Yes'?
--Are you asleep?

17. What ship has two mates but no captain?
--courtship

18. What is the most difficult key to turn?
--a donkey

19. Where can you always find money?
--In the dictionary

20. What is the surest way to double your money?
--Fold it.

21. Where does afternoon come before morning in the world?
--In the dictionary

22. What is the smallest bridge in the world?
--the bridge of a nose

23. What letter makes a road broad?
--letter B

24. What letter sounds like a vegetable?
--letter P

25. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?
--Because it is killed before it is cured (烧烤待处理)

26. What match can't be put in a match-box?
--Football match, basketball match, etc.

27. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?
--When they make 22.

28. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?
--A map

29. I am something that has teeth but can't eat. What am I?
--A comb

30. What is a sick man a controdiction?
--When he is an impatient patient.

31.What can hear without ears and answer without a mouth?
--An echo

32.What room has no walls,no doors,no windows,and no floors?
--A mushroom

33.What is dark but is made by light ?
--A shadow

34.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of ?
--Trouble

35.What is black When it is clean and white when it is dirty?
--A blackboard

还有些:
What is dark but made by light?
shadow

What is higher without a head than with a head?
pillow

What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
trouble

What person tried to make you smile most of the time?
谜底： photographer（摄影师）

It has cities but no houses,forests but no trees,rivers but no water.What is it?
MAP!

In the field stand many green round houses.In each green houses there is a white house.Inside the white house,there is a red body of water.In the water are many black men.What are they?
WATERMELON!

Something leads you up the hill and then down the hill,but it always lies still.What is it?
ESCALATOR! 电梯！

英语绕口令
1. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

你能够像罐头工人一样装罐头吗？

2. I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

我希望梦想着你梦想中的梦想，但是如果你梦想着女巫的梦想，我就不想梦想着你梦想中的梦想。

3. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream!

我叫喊，你叫喊，我们都喊着要冰淇淋!

4. How many cookies could a good cook cook if a good cook could cook cookies?

A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook who could cook cookies.

如果一个好的厨师能做小甜饼，那么他能做多少小甜饼呢？一个好的厨师能做出和其它好厨师一样多的小甜饼。

5. The driver was drunk and drove the doctor's car directly into the deep ditch. 这个司机喝醉了，他把医生的车开进了一个大深沟里。

6. Whether the weather be fine or whether the weather be not.

Whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot.

We'll weather the weather whether we like it or not.

无论是晴天或是阴天。

无论是冷或是暖，

不管喜欢与否，我们都要经受风霜雨露。

7. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

彼德派柏捏起一撮泡菜。

彼德派柏捏起的是一撮泡菜。

那么彼德派捏起的泡菜在哪儿？

8. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.

If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought so much.

我有一种想法，但是我的这种想法不是我曾经想到的那种想法。如果这种想法是我曾经想到的想法，我就不会想那么多了。

9. Amid the mists and coldest frosts,

With barest wrists and stoutest boasts,

He thrusts his fists against the posts,

And still insists he sees the ghosts.

雾蒙蒙，冰霜冻，

手腕儿空空，话儿涌，

只见他猛所拳头往柱子上砸，

直说自己把鬼碰。

10. Badmin was able to beat Bill at billiards, but Bill always beat Badmin badly at badminton.

巴德明在台球上能够打败比尔，但是打羽毛球比尔常常大败巴德明。

11. Betty beat a bit of butter to make a better butter.

贝蒂敲打一小块黄油要做一块更好的奶油面。

12. Rita repeated what Reardon recited when Reardon read the remarks.

当里尔登读评论时，丽塔重复里尔登背诵的东西。

13. Few free fruit flies fly from flames.

没有几只果蝇从火焰中飞过去。

14. Fifty-five flags freely flutter from the floating frigate.

五十五面旗子在轻轻漂浮的战舰上自由的飘扬。

15. There is no need to light a night light on a light night like tonight.

for a bright night light is just like a slight light.

像今夜这样明亮的夜晚，就不需要点一盏夜灯，因为明亮的夜灯也会变得微弱。

17. A pleasant peasant keeps a pleasant pheasant and both the peasant and the pheasant are having a pleasant time together.

一位和气的农民养了一只伶俐的野鸡，而且这位和气的农民和这只伶俐的野鸡在一起度过了一段很美好的时光。

18. How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?

如果裁纸机能裁纸的话，一个裁纸机能裁多少张纸呢？

19. Mr. See owned a saw and Mr. Soar owned a seesaw. Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See.

西先生有一个锯，萨先生有一个秋千。现在在萨先生看见西先生之前，西先生的锯锯断了萨先生的秋千。

20. If you're keen on stunning kites and cunning stunts, buy a cunning stunning stunt kite.

如果你非常相要好的风筝和精彩的表演，就去买一只漂亮的，灵巧的风筝吧。

21. Ted sent Fred ten hens yesterday so Fred's fresh bread is ready already.

特德昨天给弗莱德送去了十只母鸡，所以弗莱德的新鲜面包已经准备好了。

22. A Finnish fisher named Fisher failed to fish any fish one Friday afternoon and finally he found out a big fissure in his fishing net.

一个名叫费希尔的芬兰渔民在一个星期五的下午未能捕捉到任何鱼，结果他民现他的渔网上有一个大裂口。

23. Franc's father is frying French fries for his five fire-fighter friends after they finished a fire-fighting in a factory.

在结束对一家工厂的灭火战斗以后，弗兰克的父亲在为他的五个消防队员朋友炸制法式土豆(炸薯条)
A big black bug bit a big black bear, made the big black bear bleed blood. 大黑虫咬大黑熊，大黑熊流血了！

A big black bug bit a big black bear. Where's the big black bear the big black bug bit? 大黑虫咬大黑熊，被大黑虫咬的大黑熊在那里呢？

A bitter biting bittern bit a better brother bittern, and the bitter better bittern bit the bitter biter back. And the bitter bittern, bitten, by the better bitten bittern, said: "I'm a bitter biter bit, alack!"

一只沮丧而尖刻的麻鳽咬了牠兄弟一口，而没有牠那么沮丧的兄弟又咬牠一口。那只被咬的沮丧麻鳽对牠的兄弟说：「我是一只充满怨恨的麻鳽！我害人终害己了！

A bloke's back bike brake block broke. 一个家伙的脚踏车后制动器坏了。

A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits. 一盒饼干，一炉杂饼干。

A flea and a fly flew up in a flue. Said the flea, "Let us fly!" Said the fly, "Let us flee!" So they flew through a flaw in the flue. 一只跳蚤和一只苍蝇飞进烟道里。跳蚤说：「让我们飞吧！」苍蝇说：「让我们逃跑吧！」就这样，牠们就飞越了烟道里的一条裂纹。

A laurel-crowned clown! 戴桂冠的小丑。

A lusty lady loved a lawyer and longed to lure him from his laboratory. 一个精力充沛的女士爱上了一位律师，她渴望诱惑律师离开实验室，投入她的怀抱。

A noisy noise annoys an oyster. 嘈吵的噪音惹恼牡蛎。

A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed. 放置鲽最好的地方是鲽愿意被放置的地方。

A skunk sat on a stump. The skunk thought the stump stunk, and the stump thought the skunk stunk. 一只臭鼬坐在树墩上，臭鼬认为树墩发臭，而树墩又认为臭鼬发臭。

A tidy tiger tied a tie tighter to tidy her tiny tail. 一只老虎将领带系紧，清洁牠的尾巴。

A tree toad loved a she-toad who lived up in a tree. He was a two-toed tree toad but a three-toed toad was she. The two-toed tree toad tried to win the three-toed she-toad's heart, for the two-toed tree toad loved the ground that the three-toed tree toad trod. But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain. He couldn't please her whim. From her tree toad bower with her three-toed power the she-toad vetoed him.

一只树蟾蜍爱上另一只住在树上的蟾蜍女郎。牠是一只二趾的蟾蜍，而蟾蜍女郎是三趾的。那只二趾的树蟾蜍尝试夺取三趾蟾蜍女郎的方心，因为二趾蟾蜍喜欢三趾蟾蜍女郎所踩踏的土地。可是，二趾蟾蜍徒劳无功。牠不能满足三趾蟾蜍女郎的心意。在三趾蟾蜍女郎的卧室，三趾蟾蜍女郎用牠的三趾能力将二趾蟾蜍的念头打消了。

A tutor who tooted a flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to their tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?" 一个吹笛的导师尝试教两个吹笛者吹笛。那两个学吹笛的问导师：「吹笛难，还是教两个学吹笛的人吹笛难呢？」

All I want is a proper cup of coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot, you can believe it or not, but I just want a cup of coffee in a proper coffee pot. Tin coffee pots or iron coffee pots are of no use to me. If I can't have a proper cup of coffee in a proper copper coffee pot, I'll have a cup of tea!

我只想要一杯用真正铜制的咖啡壶煮