英语谜语小集
1.Have you heard the saying: what goes up must come down? Well what goes up and never goes down?
2.My thunder comes before my lightning. My lightning comes before my rain. My rain dries up all the land it touches. What am I?
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3.You can see it, but you can't touch it. It may disappear, but has never really left you. It grows throughout the day. What is it?
4.What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?
5.I have holes on the top and bottom. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. I have holes on my left and on my rig. What am I?
6.A word I know, six letters it contains, Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains. What is the word?
7.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
8.What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?
9.Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute?
10.What two words have the most letters in it?
keys
1.your age
2.I'm a Volcano.
3.shadow
4.Eat or Ate
5.a sponge
6.dozens
7.a river
8.a keyboard
9.breath
10.post office
英语智力谜语-1
[What do you call a girl who gambles?]
提示:Betty(贝蒂)是英语中常见的人名。把爱赌博(gamble)的女孩叫做Betty,因为bet的意思是“打赌”。www.yeeyi.Net [What do you call a man who arrives in your letter box?]
提示:Bill(比尔)是 William(威廉)的爱称,名词 bill的意思是“账单”。 [What do you call a man with a car on his head?]
提示:Jack是英语中常用的人名,名词jack有“千斤顶”的意思,可以顶起汽车。所以,把“头顶上有汽车的人”(a man with a car on his head)戏称为Jack
[What do you call a mouse if you put it in the freezer?]
提示:mouse(老鼠)的复数是 mice,mice又使人想起了 ice(冰)。所以把放在冰箱里的老鼠(a mouse you put in the freezer)戏称为 mice。www.yeeyi.NET
[What do you call a person who steal hamburgers?]
提示:hamburglar是一个杜撰词,由 hamburger+burglar拼缀而成的。 [What do you call a rich fish?]
提示:gold(金子)对应 rich(有钱的)。所以把有钱的鱼(a rich fish)戏称为goldfish(金鱼)。 [What do you call a thief in a shoe shop?]
提示:名词sneaker的意思是“鬼鬼祟祟的人”,把偷鞋的小偷叫做sneaker还有一层言外之意,因为sneaker的另一个意思是“旅行鞋”。壹壹英语(www.YeeYi.Net)
[What do you call a snake that works for the government?]
提示:serpent是“蛇”的意思。把在政府工作的蛇(a snake that works for the government)戏称为 civil serpent,这是模仿 civil servant(公职人员)而来的。
[What do you call a travelling flea?]
提示:由英语词hitch-hiker(免费搭车旅行的人)产生了这个谜语,旅行的虱子(travelling flea)被戏称为 itch-hiker,因为 itch的意思是“发痒”。
[What do you call a witch who goes to the beach but won't go in the water?] 提示:chicken(胆小的)对应 won't go in the water(不敢下水)。
[What do you call an overweight pumpkin?]壹壹英语考试www.yeeYi.net 提示:不管南瓜(pumpkin)是不是超重(overweight),还是叫南瓜。
[If a neighbour's peacock laid an egg in your yard,whose egg would it be?]
提示:cock是“公鸡”,hen是“母鸡”;而peacock既泛指“孔雀”,又特指“雄孔雀”。peacock特指“雄孔雀”的时候,peahen是“雌孔雀”,只有雌孔雀才能下蛋!
What can never be made right?]
提示:be made right有两个意思,一个是“纠正”,另一个是“变成右”。左耳(your left ear)当然变不成右耳。来源:壹壹英语
[What can you do if you can't sleep on an empty stomach?]
提示:sleep on an empty stomach的正常意义是“空着肚子睡觉”,谜面作“趴着睡觉”解的话,那么谜底就是“仰着睡觉”(sleep on your back)。
[What do you call musical insects?]
提示:hum是“哼哼”的意思,故而把有音乐细胞的昆虫(musical insects)称作humbugs。这里要说明一点,在英语里确实有humbug一词,意思是“欺骗”。
[How is an actor like a football player?]
提示:演员(actor)和足球运动员(football player)有何相像之处呢?英语的多义词play的两个意思“戏剧”和“踢球”是联系的纽带。壹壹英语论坛
[How does a vampire cross the ocean?]
提示:吸血鬼(vampire)怎样过海呢? vessel是“船”的意思,吸血鬼总得跟“血”有关系,那就乘blood vessel吧,只不过blood vessel的意思是“血管”!
[What can you make but not use?]
提示:短语make a mess的意思是“弄得一团糟”。 [How long can a goose stand on one leg?]
提示:有谁见过大鹅“金鸡独立”(stand on one leg)吗?既然没见过,那么就试试看吧(try it and see)。
[How many feet are there in a yard?]www.yeeyi.Net
提示:feet既可以作“英尺”解,又可以作“脚”解;yard既可以作“码”解,又可以作“院子”解。谜底故意取了第二解。
[How many lions can you put in an empty cage?]
提示:跟上一个谜语的道理一样,在空的笼子里放进一只狮子以后,笼子就不是空的了。
[How much sand is there in a hole one metre long and one metre wide?] 提示:同样,“洞”(hole)里也不会有“砂子”(sand),有砂子的地方就不是洞。
[How was the lady's new air conditioner?]来源:壹壹英语
提示:leave somebody cold的字面意义是“使人感到冷”,比喻意义是“没有感觉”。空调机(air conditioner)能降温,出了毛病就不起作用,这位太太就“没有感觉”了。
[How would you divide thirteen apples evenly among twelve people?]
提示:把十三个苹果均匀地分给十二个人很难做到,除非是做成苹果酱(apple sauce)。
[How can you be sure to start a fire with two sticks?]
提示:要点火(start a fire)的话,用一根拨火棍(stick)就足够了,若要用第二根“棍”的话,肯定是火柴棍(match)。
[How can you light a candle with a box of candles and no matches?]
提示:谜面是“没有火柴怎样点燃一盒蜡烛?”谜底是“拿走一根蜡烛,就减少了一根蜡烛的分量。”似乎文不对题,其实,这里利用了light的歧义,light作为动词解是“点燃”的意思,作为形容词解是“轻”的意思。lighter还有“打火机”的意思。来源:壹壹英语
[How can you stop a sleepwalker from walking in his sleep?]
提示:不让人梦游(walk in his sleep)的简单办法是不让他睡着,这不是治病的办法,但是他醒着就确实不会梦游。
[How did the blotting paper manufacturer find his job?]
提示:吸水纸(blotting paper)的功能是吸水(absorbing),吸水纸制造商当然认为自己的行业是有吸引力的(absorbing)。这里的absorbing一词一语双关。
[How did the gangster get caught?]www.yeeyi.Net
提示:“穿的鞋太紧而挤脚”是pinch,“逮捕”也是pinch。知道这个情况,谜底就不难理解了。
[How do you make a fisherman's net?]
提示:渔网(a fisherman's net)有网绳和网眼,现实里当然是由网绳结出网眼,“把网眼缝在一起”(Just sew a lot of holes together)这样的回答只不过是抬杠而已。
[How do you pronounce VOLIX?]
提示:VOL是volume(卷)的缩写,Ⅸ是罗马数字“九”(nine)。所以,VOLIX应该读作volume nine(第九卷)。
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[How do you stop a mouse from squeaking?)
提示:squeak这个象声词可以用于老鼠的吱吱叫声,也可以用于未经润滑的铰链等的轧轧声。谜底oil it(给它加点油)看来不合情理,其实,给老鼠喝点油,它还真可能不叫了。
[How do you stop a cold from going to your chest?]壹壹英语论坛
提示:怎样防止寒气进入胸腔(stop a cold from going to your chest)?可以有各种有效的办法,谜底给了一个馊主意,但是没有错。
[How do you stop your dog from digging in the garden?]
提示:怎样阻止狗在花园里挖土(keep the rabbits from digging in the garden)?谜底“把铁锹拿走”(take away his spade)自然是一句戏言。来源:www.Yeeyi.net
[How do you stop a skunk from smelling?]
提示:smell有两个意思,一个是“发出气味”,另一个是“嗅”。谜面的意思当然应该取第一个意思,如果取第二个意思的话,即“怎样阻止臭鼬闻气味”,那么谜底“堵住它的鼻子”(hold its nose)不失为一种办法。来源:壹壹英语
[How do you stop the rabbits from digging in the yard?]
提示:怎样阻止兔子在院子里挖土(keep the rabbits from digging in the yard)?谜底“把铁锹藏起来”(hide the spade)也是一句戏言。
[How do you tell the naked truth?]
提示:naked truth(真相)和bare facts(赤裸裸的事实)是英语中两个常用的搭配,分别用于谜面和谜底,显得十分贴切。
[What can you put into a barrel to make it lighter?](壹壹英语www.yeeYi.net) 提示:把桶(barrel)里装的东西拿走一些,挖出个空洞(hole),桶也就变轻了。 [How does a broom act?]
提示:扫帚怎样表演(How does a broom act)呢?谜底巧妙地运用了英语中的惯用搭配sweeping gestures(大幅度的挥手动作),因为sweeping(打扫)通常是跟扫帚联系在一起的。 [How does a fish in a hurry travel?]
提示:计程车是taxicab,海里有crab(螃蟹),taxi-crab是戏谑的说法。 [For which birthday do candles burn longest on a cake?]
提示:按照正常的思维,burn longest的意思是“燃烧的时间最长”,答案burn shorter的意思是“越烧越短”,这个谜语是利
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