【英语口语】每日谜语第26期：英语谜语20则

【英语口语】每日谜语第

26

期：英语谜语

20

则

中国人常 说

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万事开头难

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。不过

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开始猜谜语可不能猜太难的

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要不

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你可就不肯往

下猜了。先猜猜下面这个容易的

: 1. What table is in the field?

再猜猜这一个

: 2. What is the only thing you can break when you say its

name?

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请接着往下猜

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3. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into?

4. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never

existed and still has a name?

5. What changes a pear into a pearl?

6. What question can never be answered by 'Yes'?

7. What ship has two mates but no captain?

8. What is the most difficult key to turn?

9. Where can you always find money?

10. What is the surest way to double your money?

11. Where does afternoon come before morning in the world?

12. What is the smallest bridge in the world?

13. What letter makes a road broad?

14. What letter sounds like a vegetable?

15. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?

16. What match can't be put in a match-box?

17. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

18. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without

water. What am I? 19. I am something that has teeth but can't eat. What

am I?

20. What is a sick man a controdiction?

Key: ble e g

letter “l” 6. Are you asleep? hip

8.a donkey the

dictionary 10. Fold it. the dictionary bridge of a nose

B P e it is killed before it is cured (

烧烤待

处理

) ll match, basketball match, etc. they make 22. 18.A

map 19.A comb he is an impatient patient.

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英语

谜语

Riddles

Why is six afraid of seven?

-----------------------Because seven eight nine.

What do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law?

-----------------------Mom.

Why do lions eat raw meat?

-----------------------Because they never learn to cook.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

-----------------------To get to the other side.

Why did the fox cross the road?

-----------------------To get the chicken.

Why did the gum cross the road?

-----------------------

It was on the chicken?s foot.

Why did the turkey cross the road twice?

-----------------------To prove it was not a chicken.

Why did the weasel cross the road twice?

-----------------------He was a double crosser.

Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?

-----------------------

It didn?t have the guts.

What goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?

-----------------------Ann umbrella.

What's black and white and red all over?

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A zebra that doesn?t know how to put lipstick on.

What is the largest ant in the world?

-----------------------An elephant.

How much is a skunk worth?

-----------------------One scent.

What kind of monkey can fly?

-----------------------A hot air baboon.

Why did the cake like to play baseball?

-----------------------Because it was a good batter.

What goes hahaha, plop?

-----------------------Someone laughing their head off.

Why didn't the lady run away from the attacking lion?

-----------------------They told her it was a maneating lion.

Why has no one ever spotted a leopard in Africa?

-----------------------Because leopards are already born with spots.

What did the banana do when it heard the ice scream?

-----------------------It split.

Swings by his thigh a thing most magical! Below the belt, beneath the folds

of his clothes it hangs, a hole in its front end, stiff-set and stout, but

swivels about. Levelling the head of this hanging instrument, its wielder

hoists his hem above the knee: it is his will to fill a well-known hole that

it fits fully when at full length. He has often filled it before. Now he

fills it again.

----------------------- a key

I'm the world's wonder, for I make women happy --a boon to the neighborhood,

a bane to no one,

though I may perhaps prick the one who picks me. I am set well up, stand in a

bed, have a roughish root. Rarely (though it happens) a churl's daughter more

daring than the rest --and lovelier! --lays hold of me, and lays me in

larder.

She learns soon enough, the curly-haired creature who clamps me so, of my

meeting with her: moist is her eye!

-----------------------an onion

A young man made for the corner where he knew she was standing; this

strapping youth had come some way--with his own hands he whipped up her

dress, and under her girdle (as she stood there) thrust something stiff,

worked his will; they both shook. This fellow quickened: one moment he was

forceful, a first rate servant, so strenuous that the next he was knocked up,

quite blown by his exertion. Beneath the girdle a thing began to grow that

upstanding men often think of, tenderly, and acquire.

----------------------- dough

I'm told a certain something grows in its pouch, swells and stands up, lifts

its covering. A proud bride grasped that boneless wonder, the daughter of a

king covered that swollen thing with clothing.

-----------------------a churn

A lovely woman, a lady, often locked me in a chest; at times she took me out

with her fingers, and gave me to her lord and loyal master, just as he asked.

Then he poked his head inside me, pushed it up until it fitted tightly. I,

adorned, was bound to be filled with something rough if the loyal lord

could keep it up. Guess what I mean.

----------------------- helmet

Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who uses it

can neither see nor feel it.

---------------------coffin

Tell me what a dozen rubber trees with thirty boughs on each might be?

---------------------Months of the year

As I went over London Bridge I met my sister Jenny I broke her neck and drank

her blood And left her standing empty.

---------------------Gin

It is said among my people that some things are improved by death. Tell me,

what stinks while living, but in death, smells good?

---------------------Pig

All right. Riddle me this: what goes through the door without pinching

itself? What sits on the stove without burning itself? What sits on the table

and is not ashamed?

---------------------the Sun

What work is it that the faster you work, the longer it is before you're

done, and the slower you work, the sooner you're finished?

--------------------- roasting meat on a spit

Whilst I was engaged in sitting I spied the dead carrying the living.

--------------------- a ship

I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be.

--------------------- 'few'

I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The

second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes

away and never returns.

--------------------- stove, fire, and smoke

Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. And whoever

knows it wants it not.

--------------------- counterfeit money

Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me.

Solution your word Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling In mystic force and magic

spelling Celestial sprites elucidate All my own striving can't relate

--------------------- Pi (digits given by length of words)

There is not wind enough to twirl That one red leaf, nearest of its clan,

Which dances as often as dance it can.

--------------------- the sun, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Half-way up the hill, I see thee at last Lying beneath me with thy sounds and

sights -- A city in the twilight, dim and vast, With smoking roofs, soft

bells, and gleaming lights.

--------------------- the past, Longfellow

I am, in truth, a yellow fork

From tables in the sky

By inadvertent fingers dropped

The awful cutlery.

Of mansions never quite disclosed

And never quite concealed

The apparatus of the dark

To ignorance revealed.

--------------------- lightning, Emily Dickinson

Many- maned scud-thumper,

Maker of worn wood,

Shrub-ruster,

Sky-mocker,

Rave!

Portly pusher,

Wind-slave.

--------------------- John Updike

Make me thy lyre, even as the forests are.

What if my leaves fell like its own --

The tumult of thy mighty harmonies

Will take from both a deep autumnal tone.

--------------------- the west wind, Percy Bysshe Shelley

This darksome burn, horseback brown,

His rollock highroad roaring down,

In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam

Flutes and low to the body falls home.

--------------------- river, Gerard Manley Hopkins

I've measured it from side to side,

'Tis three feet long and two feet wide.

It is of compass small, and bare

To thirsty suns and parching air.

--------------------- the grave of a child, Wordsworth

My love, when I gaze on thy beautiful face,

Careering along, yet always in place --

The thought has often come into my mind

If I ever shall see thy glorious behind.

--------------------- the moon, Sir Edmund Gosse

Then all thy feculent majesty recalls

The nauseous mustiness of forsaken bowers,

The leprous nudity of deserted halls --

The positive nastiness of sullied flowers.

And I mark the colours, yellow and black,

That fresco thy lithe, dictatorial thighs.

--------------------- spider, Francis Saltus Saltus

When young, I am sweet in the sun.

When middle- aged, I make you gay.

When old, I am valued more than ever.

--------------------- wine

I am always hungry,

I must always be fed,

The finger I lick

Will soon turn red.

--------------------- fire

All about, but cannot be seen,

Can be captured, cannot be held,

No throat, but can be heard.

--------------------- Wind

I am only useful

When I am full,

Yet I am always

Full of holes.

--------------------- sieve (or sponge)

If you break me

I do not stop working,

If you touch me

I may be snared,

If you lose me

Nothing will matter.

--------------------- Heart

If a man carried my burden

He would break his back.

I am not rich,

But leave silver in my track.

--------------------- Snail

Until I am measured

I am not known,

Yet how you miss me

When I have flown.

--------------------- Time

I drive men mad

For love of me,

Easily beaten,

Never free.

--------------------- Gold

When set loose

I fly away,

Never so cursed

As when I go astray.

--------------------- A fart

I go around in circles

But always straight ahead,

Never complain

No matter where I am led.

--------------------- Wagon wheel

Lighter than what

I am made of,

More of me is hidden

Than is seen.

--------------------- iceberg

I turn around once,

What is out will not get in.

I turn around again,

What is in will not get out.