English Riddles
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：英汉幽默故事选读
英语课
Work hard on the following problems to see if you can answer them in new ways!
1. What is the difference between here and there?
2. What are the strongest days of the week?
3. Why did man put wheels on his rocking chair?
4. Why is the letter “R” like Christmas?
5. At what time of day was Adam born?
6. Why did the person throw a clock out the window?
7. What time is it when a pie is divided among four friends?
8. What nail 1 should you never hit with a hammer?
9. What ring is square?
10. Why is the sun like a loaf of bread?
11. What table is in the field?
12. What is the only thing you can break when you say its name?
13. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into?
14. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and still has a name?
15. What changes a pear into a pearl 2?
16. What question can never be answered by “Yes”?
17. What ship has two mates 3 but no captain?
18. What is the most difficult key to turn?
19. Where can you always find money?
20. What is the surest way to double your money?
21. Where does afternoon come before morning in the world?
22. What is the smallest bridge in the world?
23. What letter makes a road broad?
24. What letter sounds like a vegetable?
25. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?
26. What match can’t be put in a matchbox?
27. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?
28. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?
29. I am something that has teeth but can’t eat. What am I?
30. What is a sick man a contradiction 4?
KEY:______________________________________________________________
1. The letter “t”.
2. Saturday and Sunday (all the other days are weak days)
3. Because he wanted to rock and roll
4. Because it comes at he end of December.
5. Just before Eve. (Eve 一语双关，“晚间”“夏娃”)
6. To see time fly.
7. A quarter to one (12:45; 一人分一个)
8. Your fingernail 5.
9. A boxing ring.(拳击场地)
10. Because it’s light when it rises. (light“亮的”“轻的”；rise“升起”“发虚”)
11. Vegetable
12. Silence
13. Mirror
14. Nothing
15. The letter “T”
16. Are you asleep?
17. Courtship
18. a donkey 6
19. In the dictionary
20. Fold it
21. In the dictionary
22. the bridge of nose
23. letter B
24. letter P
25. Because it is killed before it is cured(烘烤等处理)
26. Football match, basketball match, etc
27. When they make 22
28. A map
29. A comb
30. When he is an impatient 7 patient.
n.钉子，指甲；vt.用钉钉牢，使固定，使集中于，揭露
- He drove a nail into the wall.他把钉子钉在墙上。
- In order to hang the picture,he had to hammer a nail.为了挂那幅画，他必须钉枚钉子。
n.珍珠，珍珠母
- He bought his girlfriend a pearl necklace.他给他女朋友买了一条珍珠项链。
- The crane and the mother-of-pearl fight to death.鹬蚌相争。
[英]伙伴( mate的名词复数 )； 同伴； （非正式）配偶； （熟练工人的）助手
- He's out boozing with his mates. 他和他的朋友们喝酒去了。
- They've been best mates since school. 他们从上学时期以来就是最要好的朋友。
n.矛盾，不一致；否认，反驳
- Your attitude is in contradiction to your character.你的态度和你的性格相抵触。
- Your statements today are in contradiction with what you said yesterday.你今天的声明与你昨天所说的话相互矛盾。
n.手指甲
- Why does she always paint that one fingernail blue?她为什么总是把一个手指甲涂成蓝色？
- I have the fingernail clippers.我有指甲钳。
n.驴子；蠢人；顽固的人
- This donkey can carry two sacks of grain.这头驴能驮两袋粮食。
- "I'll buy your donkey,"said the two.“我想要买你的驴子”两人异口同声说。
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