你知道吗?--转自辞海快乐英语
2009-04-09 14:06
The muscles in your heart have the strength to shoot your blood 10 meters in the air muscle ['mʌsl] 肌肉 in the air 在空中
Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump. The body’s strongest muscle is our tongue A pig’s orgasm lasts 30 mins!! orgasm ['ɔ:gæzəm] 高潮;极度兴奋;兴奋的高潮
Statistically, people are more afraid of spiders than they are of dying statistically [stə'tistikli] 统计上的;统计的; be afraid of 害怕担忧 spider ['spaidə] 蜘蛛
Crocodiles cannot stick out their tongue crocodile ['krɔkədail] 鳄鱼 stick out 伸出
A cockroach can live 9 days without it’s head. It only dies because it cannot eat. cockroach ['kɔkrəutʃ] 蟑螂
Humans and Dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure Dolphin ['dɔlfin] 海豚
A duck’s quack has no echo, and nobody knows why quack [kwæk] 鸭子叫 echo ['ekəu] 回音
Each King on playing cards represent a King in real history: Spades: King David. Clubs: Alexander The Great. Hearts: Charlemagne. Diamonds: Julius Cesar. It is impossible to sneeze with your eye’s open sneeze [sni:z] 喷嚏
Starfish have no brains A statue in a park with a soldier on a horse with it’s 2 feet in the air means the soldier died in combat. If the horse has only 1 foot in the air, the soldier died of injuries from combat. If the horse has all 4 feet on the ground, the soldier died of natural causes. statue ['stætju:] 塑像;雕像
Mosquitoes have teeth mosquito [məs'ki:təu] 蚊子 Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. The word "cemetery" comes from the Greek koimetirion which means dormitory cemetery ['semitri] 墓地 dormitory ['dɔ:mitri] 宿舍
In ancient England, people could not have sex without consent from the King. When people wanted to have a child, they had to solicit a permission to the monarchy, in turn they would supply a plaque to hang on their door when they had sexual relations. The plaque read … "Fornication Under Consent of the King" (F.U.C.K.). This is the origin of the word. consent [kən'sent] 同意;许可 solicit [sə'lisit] 请求;祈求 permission [pə(:)'miʃən] 许可;同意 monarchy ['mɔnəki] 君主政体;君主政治 plaque [plɑ:k] 匾;饰板;名牌 fornication [.fɔ:ni'keiʃən] 通奸
When the English settlers landed in Australia, they noticed a strange animal that jumped extremely high and far. They asked the aboriginal people using body language and signs trying to ask them about this animal. They responded with ’’Kan Ghu Ru’’ the english then adopted the word kangaroo. What the aboriginal people were really trying to say was ‘’we don’t understand you’’, ‘’ Kan Ghu Ru’’. extremely [iks'tri:mli] 及其;非常 aboriginal [.æbə'ridʒənəl] 原始的;土著的 adopte [ə'dɔpt] 接收
It is impossible to suck your elbow. suck [sʌk] 吸;吮 elbow ['elbəʊ] 手肘
During historic civil wars, when troops returned without any casualties, a writing was put up so all can see which read "0 Killed". From here we get the expression "O.K." which means all is good. civil wars 内战 put up 推举;表现出;共识 80% of the people who read this will try to suck their elbow. |
