a-and
m-mother
i-I
l-love
y-you
合起來就是Father and mother I love you
Part I Homonyms&Puns
第1篇 諧音及雙關類
Questions:
1.Who is closer to you, your mom or your dad?
爸爸和媽媽誰和妳更親?
2.Can you go to the Cinema with your watch broken?
妳手表壞了,可以去看電影嗎?
3.Why is the comet like Mickey Mouse?
為什麽說彗星像米老鼠?
Keys:
1.Mom is closer, because dad is farther.
媽媽更親,因為爸爸更遠。
2.Of course not,for I don’t have the time.
當然不行,因為我沒有時間。
3.It’s a star with a tail.
因為它是帶著壹根尾巴的星星。
Notes:
1.father父親,音似farther/’fa:J/更遠
2. I don’t have the time有兩種理解:①我沒有時
間;②我沒戴表或我的表壞了,不知道時間。
3.comet/’k&mit/ n.彗星
Mickey Mouse/ 'miki maus/米老鼠
tail/teil/ n.(動物的)尾巴;彗(星)尾
Questions:
1.What’s the largest room in the world?
世界上最大的房間是什麽房間?
2.What’s the poorest bank in the world?
最沒有錢的銀行是什麽銀行?
3.When is coffee like the surface of the earth?
咖啡什麽時候像地球表面?
4.What month do soldiers hate?
當兵的不喜歡幾月份?
Keys:
1.The room for improvement.
改進的空間。
2.The river bank.
河堤。
3.When it’s ground.
被碾成粉末時。
4.March.
三月。
Notes:
1.room·房間;空間,余地
2.bank n.銀行;堤岸
3.ground n.地面,它也是grind/grind/v.磨
碎,碾碎的過去分詞形式。
4.march n.行軍
Questions:
1.When is a person not a person?
什麽時候人不是人?
2.When is a door not a door?
什麽時候門不是門?
3.When are boys not boys?
什麽時候男孩不是男孩?
4.When is a clock dangerous?
什麽時候時鐘是危險的?
Keys:
1.When he is a little cross.
當他有點惱怒時。
2.When it’s ajar.
當它虛掩時。
3.When they’re bare-footed.
當他們赤腳時。
4.When it runs down the stairs and strikes one.
當它滾下樓梯敲響壹點鐘時。
Notes:
1.cross adj.煩惱,惱火; n.十字架
2.ajar/+’DNα:/adj.(門)虛掩著,露了壹條縫的
音似a jar(壹只壺)。
3.bare-footed赤腳,音似bear-footed,腳和熊壹
樣。
4.strikes one另壹層意思是:擊中壹個人
Questions:
1.Why is tennis so noisy?
打網球為什麽很吵?
2.If a cabbage and a carrot raced, which one
would win?
如果卷心菜和胡蘿蔔賽跑,誰會贏?
3.How many feet are there in a yard?
壹碼有多少英尺?
Keys:
1.Each player raises a racket.
因為每個運動員都拿著球拍。
2.The cabbage,because it’s always ahead.
卷心菜,因為它總是領先在前。
3.It depends on how many people stand in the
yard.
這要看院子裏站了多少人。
Notes:
1.racket/’r$kit/n.(網球等的)球拍;喧嘩,喧鬧
raise a racket大吵大鬧
2.cabbage/’k$biDN/n.卷心菜
carrot/’k#+r+t/n.胡蘿蔔
a head of cabbage壹顆卷心菜
3.feet n.英尺;腳(pl.)
yard n.院子;碼
Questions:
1.When are people like glasses?
什麽時候人像眼鏡?
2.What beam is lighter than all the other beams?
什麽梁最輕?
3.What animal eats with its tail?
什麽動物用尾巴吃東西?
Keys:
1.When they make spectacles of themselves.
當他們出洋相的時候。
2.lightbeam.
光線。
3.All animals do. No one takes off its tail while
eating.
所有的動物,沒有任何壹種動物在吃東西時要取
下尾巴。
Notes:
1.spectacle/’spekt+kl/ n.眼鏡
make a spectacle of oneself
使自己出醜,出洋相
2.beam/bi:m/ n.梁;光線
3.with prep.用…做事;帶著,有…
Questions:
1.How can you make a slow horse fast?
怎樣能使慢馬跑得快?
2.What is heavier in summer than in winter?
什麽東西夏天比冬天重?
3.What clothing is always sad?
什麽衣服總是傷感的?
Keys:
1.Don’t give it anything to eat for a while.
暫時別給它吃東西。
2.Traffic to the beach.
去海灘的人流。
3.Blue Jeans.
藍色牛仔服。
Notes:
1.fast adj.快的; v.絕食
2.heavy adj.重的;交通量大的,繁忙的
3.jeans/DNi:nz/ n.牛仔衣,牛仔褲
blue adj.藍色的;傷感的
Questions:
1.How many legs do horses have?
馬有幾條腿?
2.When are people smartest?
什麽時候人最聰明?
3.I have a tree in my hand.What kind of tree is
it?
我的手上有棵樹,是什麽樹?
Keys:
1.six legs---- forelegs in front and two in back.
有六條腿,前面有前腿,後面有兩條腿。
2.When it’s sunny,because everything’s brighter
then.
當天氣晴朗的時候,因為這時候萬物都更明亮。
3.It’s a palm.
是妳的手掌。
Notes:
1.forelegs/’f&::legz/ n.前腿,音似four legs(四條
腿)
2.bright adj.辦明亮;聰明
smart/sma:t/adj.聰明
3. palm/pa:m/ n.棕櫚樹;手掌
Questions :
1.Can you explain what is free speech?
妳能說說什麽是言論自由嗎?
2.If the green house is on the right side of the
road,and the red house is on the left side of the
road,where is the white house?
假設綠房子在馬路右邊,紅房子在馬路左邊,請
問白房子在哪兒?
3.What fruit is never found singly?
什麽水果永遠不會是單個的?
Keys:
1.Your talking on someone else’s phone.
用別人的電話打電話。
2.In Washington,D. C.
在華盛頓。
3.A pear.
是梨。
Notes:
1.free adj.自由的;免費的
2.The White House白宮
3.pear/p#+/ n.梨,音似 pair/p#+/ n.壹對
Questions:
1.Why is the bride unhappy on her wedding day?
新娘新婚為何不開心?
2.What time must it be when the escaped hungry
wolf ate the paymaster?
逃跑了的餓狼吃掉出納員是什麽時候?
3.What will you break once you say it?
什麽東西說出來就碎了?
Keys:
1.Because she didn’t marry the best man.
因為她沒有嫁給最好的人。
2.8p.m.
下午8點。
3.Silence.
沈默。
Notes:
1.bride/braid/n.新娘
bridegroom/’braidgrum/n.新郎
best man男儐相;最好的男人
bridesmaid/’braidsmeid/ n.女儐相
2.8 P.m.音似ate P.m.,而P.m.是 paymaster的
縮寫。
paymaster n.(發放薪餉的)出納員
3.break the silence打破沈默
Questions:
1.What kind of clothes lasts the longest?
什麽衣服穿得最久?
2.Why are farmers cruel?
為什麽農夫是殘酷的?
3.Why are babies like hinges?
為什麽說嬰兒像門鉸鏈?
Keys:
1.Underwear, because it’s never worn out.
是內衣,因為它永遠不會穿在外面。
2.They pull corns by the ears.
因為他們揪著玉米耳朵掰玉米。
3.Because they are things to adore.
因為他們是受寵愛的。
Notes:
1. worn out穿壞,磨損;穿在外面
2.ear耳朵;壹穗(玉米)
pull corns by the ears另壹種理解是“壹穗壹穗
地掰玉米”。
3.adore/α’d&::/ v.喜歡,寵愛,音似 a door。
hinge /hinDN/ n.門鉸鏈
things to a door門上的東西
Questions:
1.If a driver drives too fast he’ll get a ticket.
What will happen to a Poet if he writes too
fast?
司機如果車開得太快就會被罰款,那麽詩人如果
詩寫得太快,會怎麽樣呢?
2.Why is an empty purse always the same?
空錢包為什麽總是老樣子?
3.Why do little birds in the nest agree with each
other?
巢裏的小鳥為什麽意見總是壹致?
Keys:
1.His poetic license will be taken away.
他的寫詩執照就會被沒收。
2.There’s no change in it.
因為裏面沒有零錢。
3.Because they would fall out if they didn’t.
因為如果意見不合,它們就會摔出鳥巢。
Notes:
1.poetic license詩的破格(如不遵從語法規則等)
2. change n.零錢;變化
3. fall out摔出去;爭吵
Questions:
1.Why is an argument like a pen?
為什麽說論據就像壹支鋼筆?
2.When will the wind improve its image?
風什麽時候能改進自己的形象?
3.Why is learning English like a light gentle wind
to a smart student?
為什麽對聰明的學生來說,學英語就像壹陣微
風?
Keys:
1.No good Without a point.
沒有筆尖就沒有用處。
2.When it turns over a new leaf.
當它把壹片剛落的葉子吹翻過來時。
3.It’s a breeze to them.
因為對他們來說學英語輕而易舉。
Notes:
1.argument/’%:gjum+nt/ n.論據,說理
point n.尖,頂端;論點,要點
2.turn over a new leaf真正的涵義是:改過自新
3.breeze/bri:z/ n.微風,和風;輕而易舉的事
Questions:
1.What has four wheels and flies?
什麽東西有四個輪子還會飛?
2.What’s even harder to catch if you run faster?
什麽東西妳跑得越快越難追上?
3.What time is it when a man is chased by ten
dogs?
什麽時候十條狗追壹個人?
4.How can you tell a clock is shy?
妳怎麽知道時鐘害羞呢?
Keys:
1.A garbage truck.
垃圾車。
2.Your breath.
妳的呼吸。
3.It’s ten after one.
是壹點過十分。
4.It has its hands over its face.
因為它用手遮著臉蛋。
Notes:
1.what has four wheels and flies?
另壹種理解是:什麽東西既有四個輪子又有許多
蒼蠅?
2.catch one’s breath恢復正常呼吸(尤指劇烈運
動後)
Questions:
1.Why does time fly?
時間為何飛逝。
2.Why does an invisible man tend to go crazy?
隱形人為何容易發瘋?
3.Where can a dog get another tail?
狗去哪裏可以再弄到壹條尾巴?
4.What bow can never be tied?
什麽結不能打?
Keys:
1.To get away from all those who are trying to
kill it.
為的是甩掉所有要謀殺它的人。
2.Out of sight , out of mind.
看不見就變瘋了。
3.At a retail store.
在零售商店。
4.A rainbow.
彩虹。
Notes:
1. kill time消磨時間
2.Out of sight, out of mind眼不見為凈
3.前綴 re-表示“再壹次”,“又…”。
Questions:
1.Why do carpenters think there’s no such thing
as gold in this world?
木匠為什麽不相信世上有金子這種東西?
2.Why do you think doctors are mean?
妳為什麽認為醫生很吝嗇?
3.What do you think of the Grand Canyon?
妳覺得大峽谷如何?
Keys:
1.They never saw it.
因為他們從未鋸過金子。
2.Every time they treat me they make me pay for
it.
因為他們每次請我吃飯都讓我來付帳。
3.Just gorges.
不過是峽谷罷了。
Notes:
1.saw n.鋸,也是see(看見)的過去式。英文中講
seeing is believing.(眼見為實)”
2.treat/tri:t/ v.請客;治療,處理
mean/mi:n/ adj.小氣,吝嗇
3.gorges是 gorge(峽谷)的復數形式,音似 gorgeous/’g&:s/adj.宜人的,好的,美麗的
Just gorgeous!太棒了!太美了!
Questions:
1.How do you punctuate the following sentence?
I saw a $ 100 bill on the ground
妳看到下面這個句子怎麽給它加上標點?
我看見地上有壹張巨元美鈔
2.How do you know a photographer is always progressive?
妳怎麽知道攝影師總是在進步?
3.What roof never keeps out the wet?
什麽屋頂不擋雨?
Keys:
1.Make a dash after it.
後面加個破折號。
2.They are always developing.
他們總是在沖(膠卷)。
3.The roof of the mouth.
上顎。
Notes:
1.make a dash after it另壹種理解是:沖上去拿呀
punctuate v./’p)RkCMueit/加標點
2.develop v.發展;沖(膠卷)
3.roof n.屋頂;上顎
Questions:
1.Does any child like going to school?
有沒有小孩子喜歡上學?
2.Why is a peacock the best story-teller?
為什麽說孔雀最擅長講故事?
3.Why is a crazy person equal to two ordinary
people?
為什麽說壹個瘋子抵得上兩個正常人?
Keys:
1.Every child likes going to school. Most of them
Just hate staying there before going home.
每個孩子都喜歡去學校,大部分的孩子只不過不
喜歡在回家之前呆在那兒罷了。
2.Because it always has a beautiful tale.
因為它總是有壹個美麗的故事。
3.Because he is a man beside himself.
因為他在自己的旁邊還有壹個人。
Notes:
1.go to School有兩種理解:
①在學校讀書,上學;
②去學校,上學校
2.tale/teil/ n.故事,音似tail(尾巴)。
3. beside oneself真正的意思是:發狂,忘形。
Questions:
1.What coat is always Wet When it’S put on?
什麽衣服穿上的時候總是濕乎乎的?
2.Why did the band have a smash hit in the performance?
這支樂隊何以演出取得巨大成功?
3.Why is Sunday the strongest day in a week?
為什麽說星期日是壹周裏最強壯的壹天?
Keys:
1.A coat of paint.
壹層油漆。
2.They had the audience glued to their seats.
他們請人把聽眾粘在椅子上了。
3.The rest of the days are weak days.
因為其余的日子都很弱小。
Notes:
1.coat n.衣服;塗層,壹層(漆)
2.smash hit很成功的新劇、電影等
have someone glued to one’s seat真正的意思
是:使某人喜歡得不忍離座,直到看完(表演)為
止。
3.weak adj.弱的,音似week
weekdays指不包括星期日的那些天
但是,目前流行的看法是:weekdays指周壹至周
五,而weekends包括周六和周日。
Questions:
1.Why are giraffes the cheapest to feed?
為什麽養長頸鹿最不花錢?
2.Why are dogs afraid to sunbathe?
狗為什麽害怕日光浴;
3.Why are mules helpless in dancing?
騾子為什麽在跳舞方面壹塌糊塗?
4.Why is the pig always eating?
豬為什麽沒完沒了地吃?
Keys:
1.They make a little food go a long wag.
因為它們脖子長,壹點點食物都要走很長的路才
能咽下去。
2.They don’t want to be hot-dogs.
因為它們不想成為熱狗。
3.They have two left legs.
因為它們有兩條左腿。
4.He’s making a hog of himself.
它想成為壹只肉豬。
Notes:
1.go a long way維持很長壹段時間
3.have two left legs(跳舞等)笨手笨腳
4.make a pig of oneself像豬壹樣吃得很多(貶義)
hog /h&g/n.肉用肥豬
Questions:
1.What kind of shoes are made of banana skins?
什麽鞋是用香蕉皮做的?
2.How do you like your school?
妳覺得妳們學校怎麽樣?
3.Why are politicians no longer concerned with
snowball fights?
政客們為什麽不再關註打雪仗了?
Keys:
1.Slippers.
拖鞋。
2.Closed.
關閉。
3.The cold war is over.
冷戰結束了。
Notes:
1.slipper/’slip+/ n.拖鞋
Slip/Slip/ v.滑,跌交
2.How do you like your school?有兩種理解:
①妳覺得妳們學校怎麽樣?
②妳希望妳們學校是什麽樣子,
3.cold war冷戰
Questions:
1.Why are watches fragile?
手表為什麽容易壞?
2. What’s put on the table,cut,but never eaten?
什麽東西擺在桌上,切好以後卻不能食用?
3.Why don’t women get bald as soon as men?
為什麽總是男人比女人先禿頭?
Keys:
1.Because their hours are numbered.
因為它們有數字標明時間。
2.A deck of cards.
壹副撲克牌。
3.Because women wear hair longer.
因為女人頭發留得長。
Notes:
1.fragile/’fr$ail/ adj.易碎的,易壞的
“Their hours are numbered”源於“One’s days
are numbered”意思是“某人在世之日屈指可數,
壽命不長了”。
2.cut the cards洗牌
3.wear hair longer有兩層意思:
①留著更長的頭發;
②頭發留得更長久
Questions:
1.How can you make the door last?
怎樣能使門經久耐用?
2.Why shouldn’t you lose your temper?
為什麽不該發脾氣?
3.What makes the Tower of Pisa lean?
比薩塔為什麽是斜的?
4.What book has the most stirring chapters?
什麽書中有最動人的篇章?
Keys:
1.Make other things first.
先做其他的東西。
2.No one else wants it.
沒人願意要。
3.It never eats.
因為它從不食人間煙火。
4.A cook book.
烹飪書。
Notes:
1.make the door last另壹種理解是:最後做門
3.lean v.傾斜;adj.瘦的
4.stirring adj.動人的
Stir v.攪和,攪拌
Questions:
1.What’s the most difficult train to catch?
趕什麽火車最不容易?
2.What trees do fortune tellers like to look at?
算命先生喜歡看什麽樹?
3.How do people feel after taking a ferryboat?
乘渡船之後人們有什麽感覺?
Keys:
1.The 12:50 train, because it’s ten to one if you
catch it.
是12點50分的火車,因為趕上它只有10比1的概
率。
2.Palms.
棕櫚樹。
3.They feel vexed, for the ferryboat made them
cross.
他們覺得煩惱,是因為渡船使然。
Notes:
1.ten to one 1點差10分;10比1
2.palm n.棕櫚樹;手掌
fortune teller算命先生,預言將來的人
palmist n.看手相者
3.cross v.過去,渡過,穿過
adj.暴躁的,易怒的
Questions:
1.What can pierce one’s ears without a hole?
什麽東西不用打洞就可以在耳朵上穿孔?
2.If you had 5 dollars and gave away one quarter,
and another quarter,and then still mother
quarter, how much Would you have left?
假設妳有5美元,拿走四分之壹,再拿走四分之
壹,接著又拿走四分之壹,妳還剩多少錢?
3.What bird lifts heavy things?
什麽鳥可以舉起重物?
Keys:
1.Noise.
噪音。
2.$ 4.25.
還有4美元25美分。
3.A crane.
鶴。
Notes:
1.pierce/p!+s/v.刺穿,刺破
piercing/’p!+siR/adj.刺耳的
2.quarter/’kw&:t/n.四分之壹;二十五美分
3.crane/krein/n.鶴;起重機
Questions:
1.What’s the difference between the North Pole
and the South Pole?
北極和南極的區別是什麽?
2.What makes naughty boys long to work in a
clock factory?
淘氣的男孩子為什麽盼望到鐘表廠工作?
3.What can I do to avoid falling hair?
怎樣防止頭發脫落?
Keys:
1.The whole world.
整個世界。
2.People make faces there.
因為那兒人們做鬼臉。
3.Get out of the way where the hair’s falling.
別站在頭發掉下來的地方就行了。
Notes:
1.A world of difference天壤之別
2.make faces做鬼臉;做鐘面
3.avoid falling hair有兩種理解:
①防止頭發脫落;
②避開(從上面)掉下來的頭發
Questions:
1.What do girls find the easiest to part with?
女孩子們發現什麽東西最舍得放棄?
2.What king of running means walking?
什麽樣的跑步意味著走路?
3.What do elephants use to communicate with
each other?
大象用什麽交談?
4.What makes fish the smartest animal in the
world?
魚為什麽是世界上最聰明的動物?
Keys:
1.A comb.
梳子。
2.Running out of gas.
汽油用完了。
3.Big Words.
大個的詞。
4.No one can pull its leg.
它沒有腿給人拉。
Notes:
1.part with放棄(尤指不自願地);用…分頭路或
發縫
2.big words真正的涵義是:比較正式的大詞
4.pull one’s leg真正的涵義是:使…上當受騙
Questions:
1.What made the little strawberry worried?
什麽事讓小草莓憂心忡忡?
2.Something went Wrong with the second hand of
my watch.Where can I have it replaced?
我手表上的秒針壞了,請問哪兒有換的?
3.Why are Writers like postmen?
為什麽作家與郵遞員相似?
Keys:
1.It’s afraid to be in a jam.
它害怕被做成果醬。
2.In a second-hand store.
在舊貨店裏。
3.They are all men of letters.
他們都是文人。
Notes:
1.jam/DN$m/ n.果醬;塞車
2.second hand adj. 二手貨的,舊的
second hand n.秒針
3.men of letters文人
letter n.字母;信件
Questions:
1.Why are chickens kept away from children?
為什麽孩子們不能和雞呆在壹起?
2.Why do people go to bed?
人們為什麽睡覺?
3.Why shouldn’t we have tte-鄑te e in the country?
我們為什麽不能在鄉間密談?
Keys:
1.Chickens use fowl language.
因為雞用的是禽語。
2.Because the bed won’t come to us.
因為床不會走向我們。
3.Because the corn have ears.
因為玉米有耳。
Notes:
1.fowl language音似foul language(臟話)
2.go to bed另壹種理解是:走向床,走到床跟前
3.tte-—-tte/’teit%:’teit/n.私下密談
corns have ears源於 walls have ears隔墻有耳
ear n.耳朵;壹穗(玉米)
Questions:
1.What’s the best thing to take when you run-
down?
身體不適時吃什麽最好?
2.What stays hot even if put in a refrigerator?
什麽東西就是放在冰箱裏也是熱的?
3.What is the best year for a kangaroo?
什麽是袋鼠的幸運年?