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篇一：
51
个简单的
适合小学生的英语谜语及答案
51
个
简单的适合
xx
的英语谜语及答案
riddles
1. what is clean
when it is black and dirty when it is white?
2. what has a round face and two thin
hands, one hand short, one hand long?
3. what is big and bright during the
day and we can’t see it at night?
4. i am small. i can fly. i like sing
in the sky. what am i?
5. which letter
is a drink?
6. which letter is around
an island?
7. which letter is an
animal?
8. which letter is a kind of
vegetable?
9. which is the longest
english word? why?
10. which letter is
a question?
11. which letter is a part
of your face?
12. i am very big and
heavy. i have a long nose and big ears. what am i
?
13. i am the tallest animal in the
world. what am i ?
14. i live in the
sea. i am the biggest animal in the sea. what am i
?
15. what do you call your father’s
father’s only son?
16. what
is the biggest ant in the world?
17.
what is in the middle of the world?
18.
what do you call your father-in-laws only childs
mother-in-law?
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19. what is the smallest
room in the world?
20. teachers write
on me with chalk. i can’t talk. what am i
?
21. you have it. you read
it. there are some words and pictures on it. what
is it?
22. sometimes it looks like a
boat. sometimes it looks like a small white sun.
whatis it?
ueattheoutsideandthroway
the
inside. what did you eat?
24. what goes
around the world but stays in a corner?
25. give me food, and i will live; give
me water, and i will die. what am i?
can run but never walks, has a mouth but never
talks, has a head but
neverweeps, has a
bed but never sleeps?
27. i fly, but i
have no wings. i cry, but i have no eyes.
28. how many letters are in the
alphabet?
29. i am always with you.
sometimes behind you, sometimes before you,
sometimes byyour side, but you can’t
see me in the dark.
30. what
table is in the field?
31. what table
can tell you what to do?
changes a
pear into a pearl?
33. what letter
makes a road broad?
34. when do 2 and 2
make more than 4?
35. i have cities but
no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without
water.
whatam i?
36. what
kind of dog doesnt bite or bark?
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37. i am everywhere in the earth.
without me, you have to die. what am i ?
38. i can
’t walk. i can’t
fly. i can swim. what am i ?
i ?
40. chicken
grows from it. what is it?
41. it’s
very small in the sky, but it’s actually very big.
what is it?
42. it’s a
colourful bri
dge in the sky. what is
it?
43. why do lions eat raw meat(
生肉
)
？
44. why is six afraid of seven?
45. a woman has 7 children, half of
them are boys. how can this be possible?
46. i am white. you can drink me. i am
in the dairy group. what am i ?
47. i
am green or red. i am spicy and hot. i am in the
vegetable group. what am
i ?
48. i am a kind of fruit, green outside
and red inside. what am i ?
49. i am a
kind of fruit, yellow outside and white inside
with small black
am i ?
50.
i am orange. i am thin and long. rabbits like me
very much. what am i ?
51. david was
out for a walk when it started to rain. he did not
have an
umbrellaand he wasnt wearing a
hat. his clothes were soaked, yet not a single
hair on
hishead got wet. how could this
happen?
solutions
1.
blackboard
2. a clock
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3. the sun
4.a bird
5. t(tea)
6. c(sea)
7. b(bee)
8. p(pea)
9. smiles(theres a mile between the
first and the last letter.)
10. y(why)
11. i(eye)
12. an elephant
13. a giraffe
14. the whale
15. father/daddy
16. an e
lephant
17. the letter“r”
18. mom
19. mushroom
20. a blackboard
21.a book
22. the moon
23. chicken
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24. stamp
25. fire
26. river
27. cloud
28. eight
29. shadow
30. vegetable
ble
32.“l”
33.“b”
34.
(22)
35. a map
36. hot dog
37. air
38. fish
39. a tree
40. an egg
41. a star/ the
sun/ the moon
42. a rainbow
43. because they can’t cook.
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44. because
seven eight(ate) nine.
45. because all
of her children are boys.
46. milk
47. pepper
48. a watermelon
49. a bana
50. a carrot
51. because he’s
bald.
篇二：
英语谜语
123
英文谜语同中国谜语
一样有着极其悠久的历史，其中最为有名的大概是斯
芬克司之
“
谜
”
了。
<
/p>
“
斯芬克司
”
一
词源自希腊语
sphinx
，是希腊神话中一个可怕的怪物，它
长着
女人的头、狮子的身躯，身上还有两只翅膀。传说中，狮身人面的女怪斯芬克
司生性残酷无比，常常守在大路口，让过往的行人猜一个谜，猜错了就要被吃
< br>掉。有一次，一位国王的儿子被斯芬克司吃掉了，国王一怒之下，发出悬赏：
<
/p>
“
谁能把它制服，就给他王位。
”
青年俄狄浦斯
(oedipus)
应召前去，
很快就道
破谜底，斯芬克司便自杀了。这个世界著名的谜语是：
whatgoesonfourfeet, on two feet, and
three, but the more feet it goes on, the
weaker it will be.
其谜底是
ehecrawlsfirst,thenwalksontwofeet,usesacanewh
enold.
因为人在婴儿时
用四肢在地上爬行，成人后两腿行
走，年老后拄拐杖走路，所以谜底是
“
人
”
。
这
what goes on
four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at
dusk?
该个谜语还可以
这样说：
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<
/p>
谜语采用了描写其特征的方法，英语中这种谜语被称为事物谜，也叫做描
< br>述性谜语
(descriptiveriddles)
。
事物谜的谜面通常是用比喻、暗示或其他方法来
描绘所猜谜底的特征，和汉语中物谜的谜
面构成及猜测方法基本相同。
2)what starts
with t
，
ends with t and full
of t
？谜底是
“a teapot”
。
teapot(
茶
壶
)
一词以字母
t
开头和结尾
，而茶壶里装的自然是茶
(tea)
，所以是
< br>full of t
。
3)the longest word in the world.
谜底是
“smiles”
。这个单词的首字母和尾字母
之间是单词
“mile”(
英里
)
，可以理解为首尾间有一英里长，自然就是世界上最长
的单词了。猜这个字谜时，千万不要去翻词典去找一个字母最多的单词。
2)
what is the cheapest way to see the
world
？
谜底是
“buy an
atlas”
。买一张地图
(buy an
atlas)
就可以见到整个世界
(see the
world)
了。而其实
see
the world
作为一个固定词组时的意思是
“
见多识广
”
。
有些貌似简单，谜底却耐人寻味。如：
what goes up and never goes down
？谜底是
“age”
。年龄是永远向上增长，不
可能下降的。还有一些则语出惊人，出人意料，细细品味倒也幽默风趣，让人
< br>哑然失笑。
例如：
why should you never marry a tennis
player
？谜底是
“because love
means
nothing tothem”
。
love
的通用义是
“
爱情
”
，在网球比赛中则表示
“
零分
”
。
英文智力谜语中有一类比较难猜，这类谜语是通过篡改英语谚语、成语或
名句
而形成的，要猜出这些谜语就必须对这些谚语、成语了如指掌，否则，就
是绞尽脑汁也未
必能猜中。略举例说明一下：
1)why shouldnt
you cry if a cow slips on the ice?
谜底是
“because its no use
crying over spilt milk.”
英语中
成语
“
覆水难收
”
是这样表达的：
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