
英语幽默 | 穿袜子 Wear Socks
Mum: Look at your socks. One is short, the other is long. You must have put on the wrong ones.
妈妈:小东,看你的袜子一只长,一只短,你肯定穿错了。
Mum: Look at your socks. One is short, the other is long. You must have put on the wrong ones.
妈妈:小东,看你的袜子一只长,一只短,你肯定穿错了。
另外, fad 与 fade (逐渐消失)拼写很接近,在词义上也可以产生关联,即: fad 就是很快就会 fade 的狂热或爱好。
collusion
英 [kəˈluːʒn] 美 [kəˈluːʒn]
【正式用语】 密谋、勾结、串通
这些动词均含“震动,颤抖”之意。
I WAS sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me. The sentence, the dread sentence of death, was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears.
这两个名词均有“荫,荫凉处”之意。
gospel 一词现在已经逐渐走出宗教领域,应用于更多场景,用来表示任何主义、信条。
circumlocution
英 [ˌsɜːkəmləˈkjuːʃn] 美 [ˌsɜːrkəmləˈkjuːʃn]
【正式用语】迂回曲折的说法
海湾战争期间,我妹妹珍妮买了一面美国国旗,她请房子的维修工,一位越战的老兵给她竖一根旗杆。
This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.
At five o'clock Ed Loyce washed up, tossed on his hat and coat, got his car out and headed across town toward his TV sales store. He was tired.
英语中的 gymnastics (体育、体操)就源自希腊语 Gymnastike ,而 gymnasium (体育馆、健身房)源自希腊语 gymnasion ,意思就是进行 gymnastics 的场所。
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