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
above mean sea level (amsl)
accentuation filter
almquists
andreasbergolite (harmotome)
be confounded with
best-fit
branchiostoma
bucket elevator
budget debate
burhels
caliberation arm
Caryopteris nepetifolia
casmalia
casoli
cesian
coconut-fibres
conjurators
cupric ammine
diesel electric
digicon
displacement of muscle and tendon after trauma
dovetail cutting
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
EIlice
energy management analog computer
enteroidea
evictive
FAS (free alongside ship)
fast sampling tracking system
feather drying contrifuge
film-producing
finned-tube heat exchanger
frozen meat product
gallisize
Gannett Co., Inc.
general principles of justice
Georgina
gilad
government commissioner
halomethane
hard peach
heavy steel plate bending roll
hecm
heighs
heterodynamic waddington 1953)
hull aspirator
immune precipitin
incoming and outgoings
inferred reserve
irrigating farming
isoamyl propionate
jog mode
lacrimalgland
land use plan
macroteeth
meretrician
multivariate data analysis
myoelectrical
neurophenomenological
Nissum Fd.
non-fossils
Olmos de Ojeda
oral-questioning
output index
over my head
perforating calcific elastosis
planetary-parallel gear
PMed
polydiallylisophthalate (daip)
Pommereschea
position independence code
position modulation scan
post feminist
pupillostatometer
radiation alarm
refrigerating effect per unit swept volume
rejigged
reputatively
rise above the crowd
shawns
slop of a stack
sodium acetylsulfanilate
superalbuminosis
surface code
swallowed blood syndrome of newborn
take someone to court
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle
tetrode amplifier
the vic wells
thermoinducible
Tijucas do Sul
tip-of-the-tongue(TOT)
toast tan
Trifolium prateose L.
turbidite deposit
unnimbed
unprotected concrete pad
Venezuela nasturtium
vessal
water platter
woil
zinc-base alloy