英语趣味问答

1. If you take half from a half dollar, what's left? 2. What can you break with only one word? 3. What is the best and cheapest light? 4. You can hang me on the wall, but if you take me down,you can't hang me up again. What am I?     

趣味英语

I. A:What is the longest word in English?B.It is "extraterritorialitries",which has twenty-one letters.A:No, I know a word which is longer than yours.It is "smiles". B:"Smiles" has only six letters.How can     

趣味问答(英文)

正1.Tom has been living in his hometown ever since he was born,but when asked if he’d lived there all his life,his answer i"sNo".Why?2.Jim is in the lake and water is only up to his knees.However,his life is in great danger.Why?3.What word is pronounced wrong,even by the best of scholars?4.Do stutterers(口吃者)always stamme(r结巴)?5.What do every couple(夫妻)have in common?6.What always goes up and never goes down?7.What can you place in your right hand that you can??t place in your left hand?     

脑筋急转弯

1 What room can no one enter? 2 What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs? 3 What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it? 4 What has a neck but no head? 5 What gets wetter as it dries? 6 Which letter of the alphabet[字母表] has the most water? 7 What starts with a "P," ends with an "E" and has thousands of letters? 8 What has to be broken before you can use it?     

Characteristics and Translation of Vocabulary in Business English

As world economy stepped into the 21 st century, international business activities are going on with increasing frequency. Business English has become an indispensable communication language tool in international economy activities. Vocabulary is the minimal independent of applied unit composing meaningful unit, so it is likely to understand sentences well and translate the language accurately and precisely only when one fully understand every word.     

英语专业八级模拟试题(英文)

Part ⅠLISTENING COMPREHENSION (40MIN)(略) Part ⅡProofreading and Error Correction (15 MINS. )The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:For a wrong word : underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.For a missingword: mark the position of the missing word with a " A " sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.For an unnecessarvword . Cross out the unnecessary word with a slash"/" and put the word in the blank provided at     

脑筋急转弯(英文)

1.why is the letter T like a boat?2.what is the end of the world?3.what eight-letter word has onlyone letter in it?4.can you spell jealousy with two letters?5.can you spell donkey with one letter?6.can you end a game of hide-and-seek with three letters?7.what occurs once in every minute,twice in every moment,but not oncein a hundred years?8.why is the letter R absolutelynecessary to friendship?     

脑筋转转转(英文)

1. You can see it, but you can/t touch it. It may disappear, but hasnever really left you. It grows throughout the day. What is it?2. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, hasa head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?3. What two words have the most letters in it?4. What is yours, but is used more by others than by you?5. How many sides does a house have?6. What starts with T, ends with T and full of T?7. Why should you never marry a tennis player?8. When do el…     

双语木屋

word puzzles双语木屋1.What fruit is never found single?2.What has neck butno throat?3.Who carries hishouse with him?4.What letter is a part of the head?5.What part of London is in France?6.What is that found in every cen-ter of America and Australia?7.What room can neverenter?8.What can you seewhen your eyes shut?9.What is that I can see butyou can not?10.What kind of table has noriddles横向:3.茶4.花6.7.空气9.雨11.帽子12.14.花瓶15.太阳16.杯19.湖20.风筝纵向:1.草2.小鸟3.度计4.火5.窗口8.手10.…     

The Best Thing in Life

What is the best thing in life? In my view, the best thing consists1 of happiness, health, love and friendship. These are things important to one. 　Happiness is the good feeling one has to life and to work and study. If one is happy, that is the most desirable2 thing in the world. 　Health is equally3 important to us. One who is ill all the time can not be happy. With a healthy body, one can do things he likes. 　Love and friendship are the feelings one has towards parents, teachers and friends. One can not be happy unless one loves and is loved by people.     

Comments on R·Frost’s After Apple-Picking

Robert Frost once said that a poet“speaks in parables and in hints and inindirections,”for“poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thingand meaning another.”In After Apple-Picking,one of his best-known poems,Frost again speaks indirectly,in parrables and hints;he is not just talkingabout apple-picking when he says“But I am done with apple-picking now.”What he actually hints is that the“I”(herein indicates the farmer)has justbeen through with his struggle against nature and life.     

大挑战

1. Can you rearrange "new door" and get one word?2. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5 feet 10 inches tall.What does he weigh?3. If two ducks are before a duck, and two ducks are behind a duck,     

你知道吗?

1.The longest one-syllable word in the English lan- guage is screeched. 英语中最长的单音节词就是尖叫声。2.Underground is the only word in the English lan- guage that begins and ends with the letters und. 在英语中,underground是惟一一个开始和结尾都是und 的单词。3.Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the     

WSE YOUR HEAD

1.What do you have that you can’t lend to others?2.If your uncle’s sister is not your aunt,what relation is she toyou?3.What is a fish net made of?4.What’s the difference between a monkey and a flea(跳蚤)?5.What has four fingers and a thumb(拇指)but no flesh(肉)and bone?6.Why do giraffes(长颈鹿)have long neck?7.How can you make6out of three5’s or out of three7’s?8.Who works only one day in a year but never gets fired(开除)?     

Funny Questions

1.What must you keep after giving it to someone else? 2.Who can stop a truck with one hand? 3.What are the strongest days of the week? 4.Where does Friday come before Thursday? 5.Which travels faster,heat or cold? 6.Why did he throw a clock out of the window? 7.When should you kick about a birthday present? 8.It is yours,but others use it more than you do.What is it ? 9.What room has no walls,no doors,no floors,and no windows? 10.How are a teacher and a railroad conductor (列车员) alike? 11.Why are we always tired (累) on the first of April? 12.What is the longest sentence in the world? 13.What is the difference between a hill and a pill (药片) ? 14.What part of a clock is always old?     

The private self and literacy, a synopsis Hans Straub traces the development of silent reading and the ‘ inner voice＇

In the English language there are many expressions and words that indicate our high valuation of the individual. Any dictionary will give you several pages of words that have ‘self‘ as a component. Philosophically, self is synonymous with the ego,but encompasses one‘s nature, one‘s uniqueness, in short,one‘s individuality, which has come to be positively valued in Western culture. In fact, the idea of self and being has become interwoven in Western culture. What accounts for therelatively high valuation placed on the self in the West as compared, a lesser valuation of the same in other, more collectivistic cultures?     

The Analysis of Scarlett’s Character

Scarlett,the heroine in Gone with the Wind,is always the disputed figure in the academic world.She gathers kinds of traits in herself,including contradiction intricacy and diversity.Then,Scarlett is a person not only selfish and rebellious,but also in the pursuit of equality and independence.What she eagerly seeks in her life is genuine love.To begin with her unique thought and conception,this thesis analyzes the characteristics of her self-assurance and self-reliance represented behind her selfishness and rebellion.It makes emphasis on the profound changes Scarlett has in terms of belief and self-value when she experiences the baptism of the Civil War.The process that she changes from a spoiled noble belle to an independent and confident businesswoman indicates the self-awareness of women has wakened up.     

INTELLIGENCE TEST

1.What starts with E.ends with E and only has one letter?2.Whv did the bat hit the ball?3.What five letters do you say when you look into the refrigerator and are disappointed(失望的)?4.What goes up when the rain comes down?5.Why does the fireman have red suspenders(吊裤带)?Key:1.An envelope.2.To make a home run.3。YRUMT(Why are you empty?)4.An umbrella.5.To keep his pants(裤子)up.     

Escape from the Besieged Fortress——An Analysis of Alice Munro’s "Runaway"

Alice Munro is one of the famous Canadian writers and is renowned above all for the astonishing subtlety of her short stories.Her theme has often been the dilemmas of the female coming to terms with family, friends in a small town. This paper attempts to make a brief introduction about the stories of Alice Munro’s Runaway and explores the protagonist’s choices in the dilemma situation, and then exposes the cruelty of reality is that they cannot get rid of the ineluctable reality of life. Escape is only a temporary action which cannot save them from endless triviality of life. What they should do is not to escape from life, but to adapt to the reality of life.     

Literal Translation and Free Translation

Translation means the conversion of an expression into another language. To say plainly,It is an art to reproduce the exact idea of the author by means of a language different from the original.So the original thought of the expression must be kept as exactly as possible. The duty of the translator is simply to change the vocabulary not the thought. Literal translation and free translation are two essential ways in translation. Literal translation refers to an adequate representation of the original in sequence of vocabulary, in grammatical structure and rhetorical device. Free translation is also called liberal translation, which does not adhere strictly to the form or word order of the original. Which one is preferable？ We can hardly say. Each has its advantages and disadvantages.Argument between them has been more than 80 years. What on earth is the argument？ What do they focus on？ The argument brings great effect to us, so I want to find some answers to it.