N个你从未听说过的事实-英语课

时间：2019-02-05 作者：英语课 分类：阅读空间

英语课

　　1. Santa Klaus was created by Coca-Cola and he has been featured in Coke ads since the 1920s.

　　圣诞老人形象是可口可乐公司创造出来的，自从20世纪20年代以来，圣诞老人就一直出现在可乐广告中。
　　2. Cats have over 100 vocal 1 chords. Makes you wonder how many keys they can say "Meow" in! And cats can sleep 16 hours or more every 24 hours.
　　猫咪可以发出超过100种声音，你可能会想知道喵星人到底能发出来多少种音调的“喵” 叫声。另外猫咪每天能睡16个小时甚至更久。
　　3. Shrimp 2 can only swim backwards 3, turtles breathe through their asses 4, fish can drown and a duck can't walk without bobbing its head. This always looks so funny to me.
　　虾只会往后游，乌龟用屁股呼吸，鱼也会溺水，鸭子不摆头就不会走。这些我都觉得好有趣!
　　4. 11% of people in the world are left-handed. Makes you wonder about all those left-handed desks there were in elementary school. When you mistakenly sat in one everything was wrong with the world.
　　世界上有11%的人是左撇子，这可能会让你想到小学里有的左撇子课桌。要是不小心跟左撇子坐了同桌，你会发现全世界都混乱了。
　　5. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows 5!
　　蒙娜丽莎没有眉毛。
　　6. The average raindrop falls at 7mph, which is I guess why it hurts so much when hail is pelleting you from the sky.
　　雨点平均下降速度为每小时7英里(约为11千米)，我猜这也是为什么冰雹从天空中降落砸到我们会觉得那么疼。
　　7. Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia — just a few of of the States that are named after a real human.
　　特拉华州、乔治亚州、路易斯安那州、纽约州、宾夕法尼亚州、马里兰州、弗吉尼亚州，美国50个州当中只有这几个是根据真实名字命名的。
　　8. No matter how hard you try, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. I just tried it — it can't be done.
　　不管你多努力地尝试，你都无法将一张纸对半折超过7次，我试过了，我做不到。
　　9. If you think about it, "Typewriter" is the longest word you can type on a keyboard that only uses a single row of qwerty letters.
　　如果你仔细想想，你会发现“Typewriter” (打字机)是键盘上只使用一行字母就可以打出来的最长的英文单词。
　　10. Because things get expand when they heated, hot water is actually HEAVIER than cold water.
　　因为物体遇热膨胀，所以热水其实要比冷水重。
　　11. Unfortunately, we daydream 6 less as we get older and older. I guess reality and bills set in.
　　不幸的是，随着我们年纪越来越大，我们做的白日梦就会越来越少。我猜是因为残酷的现实和堆积的账单的压力吧。