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
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3-butenyl
A-zone(A-horizon)
access-to-plant
algebra homomorphism
Aminex resin
angle measure
antivirbin
Antseranana
auto-decrementing
bananadine
barrel of puppethead
beat generator
ben hogans
beyond-the-object art
blind to the world
boy-wonders
butterfly style
cantilever gantry
carboniums
casesiumphotocell
catharosine
caution board
Chrome OS
clasterosporium eriobotryae hara
clutch disk
complete controllability
continuous wave generator
conversion scales
cts-v
curvemeter
dental vessel
descendence
deuterium oxide
Eadmund I
enstamped
Entosiphon
ethyl phenylbarbiturate
exsudation cyst
FALCIDIAN LAW
firenadoes
Flame Wars
genus kennedyas
glatthaar
graftling
hair-pin
Impatiens paradoxa
inversion factor
ir (infrared)
japopinic acid
laccifer lacca parasite
land jobber
liopelmas
locustae
low-temperature production
made an impression on
March of Time
mass rapid transit systems
MBR-O (memory buffer register,odd)
medium ring
minifloppy mass storage
morbillivirus canine distemper
naupathia
no message
non-linear semi-group
Osiander's sign
oxalic acid poisoning
pantaloons
Pedro Ximenez
perfect electrolyte
Pierry
plantier
post-deng
pylie
red-fin pargo
Rhinopteridae
safeguard practice
sandry
schistosomiasis mekongi
secret harbour
shellee
sinter cake
sky surfing
soda sanidinire
software company
solid fat index
stipulaceous
supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet)
supplanters
taper-thread
thermo-magnetic alloy
transphosphorylate
twelt
unifunctional circuit
universal judgment
vacuum-cleaner alloy
wasband
watch your language
white-dot generator
wonks
yashiki
year-high