时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:趣味英语


英语课
 

  所谓pun,通常是指利用一个单词的两个含义,或者利用两个特定的单词,达到“一语双关”的目的。比如下面第一句话,其中的grave有两个含义,一个是“严肃的”(形容词),一个是“坟墓”(名词),因此这句话的意思是:他不是一个严肃的人,除非他躺到坟墓里,才能严肃起来。再比如下面第二句话,其中的pray(祈祷)和prey 1(捕食),发音相同,外形相似,因此这句话的意思是:他们今天为你祈祷,明天就会加害于你。这就是两个典型的pun。

  ①He is not a grave man until he is a grave man.


  ②They pray for you today and prey on you tomorrow.


  国外一个网站评选的2003年十大pun,下面是其中的三个例子,如果您能看懂、听懂,肯定会觉得pun很有意思。

  ①He drove his expensive car into a tree and found out how the Mercedes bends.


  他违章超速驾驶,结果将昂贵的名车撞到树上,他终于看到他的奔驰车(Mercedes)是怎样撞弯(bends)的。这句话的幽默之处是将Mercedes Benz(奔驰车)中的Benz,故意改写成bends。


  ②Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.


  这句话乍一看,好象是说:时光像箭一样飞逝,水果像香蕉一样飞逝。其实这句话后半部分的真正意思是:果蝇喜欢吃香蕉,也就是fruit flies/like/a banana。


  ③A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tyred.


  这句话的表面意思是:自行车自己站不起来,因为它只有两个轮胎(two-tyred)。而这句话的另外一个意思是:这辆自行车被它的主人骑了很长时间,它现在太累了(too tired)。


  怎么样,pun是不是很有意思?我下面再列出三个pun,但不告诉您意思,请您自己琢磨一下。如果您能琢磨出来,那说明您的英语水平已经很高了。


  ①She wore a new hairpiece every day and was considered a big wig 2.


  ②Old math teachers never die, they just become irrational 3.


  ③When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.




n.被掠食者,牺牲者,掠食;v.捕食,掠夺,折磨
  • Stronger animals prey on weaker ones.弱肉强食。
  • The lion was hunting for its prey.狮子在寻找猎物。
n.假发
  • The actress wore a black wig over her blond hair.那个女演员戴一顶黑色假发罩住自己的金黄色头发。
  • He disguised himself with a wig and false beard.他用假发和假胡须来乔装。
adj.无理性的,失去理性的
  • After taking the drug she became completely irrational.她在吸毒后变得完全失去了理性。
  • There are also signs of irrational exuberance among some investors.在某些投资者中是存在非理性繁荣的征象的。
学英语单词
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a'right
absolute criteria in regression theory
additional gain
antrozouss
apparent modulus
ARA-C-HU
Are you trying to find a furnished house
attenuated oscillation
awe-inspire
Bedburg-Hau
benzophenanthridine
borrelia afzelii
burn-out rate
cafegoer
catelli
Cecil B. DeMille
coda-like
collaboration tools
control of dust
copper choppers
crystal sand
day-taler
dentofacial orthopedics
depository library
desulfatohirudin
do sb. harm
document retrieval index
double figure velvet
E-250
electric file
Ellesmeroceras
endurance rupture
firelogs
flow-table test
foundry floor
Gamergater
ganciclovir(GCV)
gasoline depth gage
genus Pholidota
gertner
glitch fest
hydrosulphurous acid
interfund accounts
ionflow anemometer
iron oxides
jet machine
larner
Lergopenin
logsheets
management process
masiwa
memento moris
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
moror
multipunch
nanosheet
neckcloth
numbered division
ostendorff
output power of the TV transmitter
oxycephalia
parallel routing
periodgram
photoactivated
phylogenetic degeneratiaon
pick yourself up
plated weight
pointfulness
Pontryagin space
predeclares
pressure bearing layer
protocol assessment
pure variable-pressure turbine
regular member
research and technical advisory services
resource sharing control
Saipem
self arrow
sliding panel
Songjung-ni
stemilt
stencil book
table button
tertiary bark
test pattern generation system
the first amendment
the trooping of the colour
thioctyl acetyl transferase
timber stain
tooth implantation
treasury solicitor
trucker hats
two body problem
vapour generation
vatanka
vision power
Volscian
voluntatis
wintle
wipo
Yoldusamchollibol