时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:趣味英语


英语课

  有一块寓学于嘻的天地往往为英语自学者所忽视。 这块天地就是发表在英语刊物边边角角里的英语 绕口令、谜语和幽默。任何语言大致都有三个层 次:语音、词汇和语法。狭义而言,学习语言实 际上就是要掌握语言的这三个层次。而英语绕口令。谜语和幽默对于英语的每个层次都有涉及, 堪称英语自学者的良师益友。

  许多同学在学习英语语音的时候,往往受方言的影响,发不准这个或那个音素。要纠正这些发得 不准的音,练习绕口令无疑是一种有趣并且有效的方法。 Eg. She sels seashells on the seashore. Eg. Six silly sleepers 1 slept softly on silk sheets. 绕口令是可以自编的,从词典中找出一些含有同音素的词来构成一句有趣的句子即成。

  有些英语谜语也有助于我们掌握语音。 Eg. What twoletters mean nothing? 答案是MT。MT的发音是[emti:],酷似empty的发音。这则谜语不仅帮助我们学会并且记牢empty 的发音,也可以加深我们对于失去爆破现象的理解。

  能够说明词汇问题的谜语,幽默可谓俯抬皆是,给我们提供的帮助也是多方面的。

  1.拼写: What is the smallest room in the world? 答案是a mushroom。这则谜语帮助我们记住 mushroom(蘑菇)的拼写,因为这单词有一部分是room。

  A: Which seven-lettered word has three "u"s in it?  B: I don't know. But it must be unusual. B没猜着却说对了。这种戏剧性的幽默会使我们记住unusual的拼写中有三个"u"。

  2.同音异形词: Peter:Tom,why do you prefer a pear to an apple? Tom: Because it takes tow apples to make a pair(pear).

  3.一词多义: Teacher:Tom, how many states are there in the US? Tom: Fifty. Teacher:Enumerate them. Tom: One, two, three, ... enumerate既有"数、点"的意思,又有"枚举、列举" 的意思。

  4.习惯用法: Teacher: Jim,why can't we lose our heads? Jim: If we lose our heads, we will have nothing to put our hats on. to lose one's head当作成语用时,意思是"失 去理智,惊慌失措",只有了解这一点,才能明白此中幽默所在。

  谜语、幽默说明语法问题的也不乏其例。例如: The Mother: My daughter has been learning piano lessons under you for quite a long time. What do you think of her execution now? The pianist: That could be a nice thing to do.

  execution既有"演奏",又有"处死刑"的意思,而物主代词和它所限定的表示动作的名词之间既可以是 主谓关系,也可以是动宾关系, 因此, her execution既可理解为"她的演奏",也可理解为"处她以死刑",显然,钢琴家理解的是后一种意思。又如:

  Willy:I thought I told you to come after supper. Milly:That's what I come after. Wiliy的本意是:我想我是让你晚饭后再来的。然而如果我们不把 after supper看作状语,而将come after看作是表示"寻求"的词组,把supper看成这个动词词组的宾语,同样的一句话就会变为"我想我是 让你来找晚饭吃"的意思。显然,这里的幽默产生于 对于句子结构的不同理解。

  的确,英语绕口令、谜语、幽默对于英语自学的帮助是多方面的,充分地利用这块天地,寓学于嬉,定能 收到事半功倍的效果。

n.卧铺(通常以复数形式出现);卧车( sleeper的名词复数 );轨枕;睡觉(呈某种状态)的人;小耳环
  • He trod quietly so as not to disturb the sleepers. 他轻移脚步,以免吵醒睡着的人。 来自辞典例句
  • The nurse was out, and we two sleepers were alone. 保姆出去了,只剩下我们两个瞌睡虫。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
-fast
additional discount
aero obstruction light
al gharith
algebraic multiple error correcting code
alkyoxycarbonyl
angels-on-horseback
antiphone
audit of fixed capital
base level(of erosion)
Beprocin
better-educated
Bikam
Boxing Day
Butea frondosa
Camponaraya
capulets
carpet-bombing
carrion flower
clonked
color rendering
compatible laser system
component name
correlated characters
cutting ability
cybersquatters
dead resistance
dialogistically
duvay
eilema pulverea
Enteropogon
eruptive star
fast closure
fiberworks
field rank
fingahs
forced-circulation reactor
forthspoken
full-borer
genus monodons
grape-pickings
gruppes
hamen
instantaneous maximum speed
integrated enterprise
Internet Connection Sharing
intravenous drug
janmen
kbytes
left handed rotation
mandinga
mesion
multiport
multiprocess definition
ncci
nickel copper ratio
nondefective
NONMEM
notification of shipment
one and the same
operand segment
overtrow
palpebrarum rimae
Payable Tons
peb
penetration number
permanent campaign
plomb
plywood square
post-exposure prophylaxes
pre-tension
preheat hot cathode lamp
productivity of
protosulphide
pseudacousma
pseudodiphylax
remittee
robert oppenheimers
Rosa lasiosepala
sclerirtomy
scolecithricella profunda
scuffles
sensualistic
shaft bush
shake hand
Shramkivka
Single Receptacle
single-phase watthour meter
soapwoods
solidarnosc
Spornoye
stocky size
subtropical botany
terminating attribute
three feet race
time-trend
Trisetum altaicum
two speed resolver
waffle baker
wax finishing
welts
Wittenoom