趣味英语知识

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趣味英语

1.下面是我国几部古典名着的中文名字和英文译名,请用直线连起来;

RomanceoftheThreeKingdoms红楼梦

TheOutlawsOftheMarsh 三国演义

ADreaminRedMansions 水浒传

JourneytotheWest 聊斋志异

StrangeStoriesfromaChineseStudio西游记

2.你认识公共场所的英文标识吗 请写出下面几种常见英文标识的中文意思;

1NoParking____________

2PleaseSaveWater______________

3Quiet Please ___________

4Emergency Exit ______________

连线

5No Smoking 不能吸烟

6CautionDanger 注意危险

7Stand Clear 不要倚靠车门

8Wanted 通缉令

9Wet Painting 油漆未干

10Do Not Disturb 请勿打扰

11Staff Only 游客止步

3. 连线题

A.love me, love my dog. 一天一个苹果,医生远离我

B.Walls have ears. 有其父,必有其子

C.An apple a day, keep the doctor away. 爱屋及乌

D.Like father, like son. 隔墙有耳

趣味英语小知识

a Ten animals I slam in a net.

我把十只动物一网打尽

你注意到这句话有什么特别之处吗对了,无论从左到右,还是从右到左,字母排列顺序都是一样的,英语把这叫做Palindromes 回文指顺读和倒读都一样的词语,关于动物的回文还有以下的例子

Otto saw pup pup was Otto. 奥托看见了小狗,小狗的名字叫奥托

Was it a car or a cat I saw Was it a rat I saw 我刚才看见的是条老鼠

b the bee's knees 又来形容最好的至高无上的东西;

例 She is a very poor singer but she thinks she's the bee's knees.

她五音不全却自认为是高高在上的一流歌手;该表现起源于20年代的美国,仅仅因为bee's 和knees

押韵,琅琅上口,迅速得到流传,直到现在,还在日常生活非正式场合的对话中经常使用;

和时间有关的英语趣味小知识 一时间是金,其值无价

Time is money. 时间就是金钱或一寸光阴一寸金

Time flies. 光阴似箭,日月如梭

Time has wings. 光阴去如飞

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise. 光阴如锉,细磨无声

Time stays not the fool's leisure. 时间不等闲逛的傻瓜Time and I against any two.

和时间携起手来,一人抵两人

Time is life and when the idle man kills time, he kills himself.

时间就是生命,懒人消耗时间就是消耗自己的生命;或时间就是生命,节省时间,就是延长生命

Time spent in vice or folly is doubly lost. 消磨于恶习或愚行的时间是加倍的损失

二时间是风,去而不返

Time undermines us. 光阴暗中催人才;或莫说年纪小人生容易老

Time and tide wait for no man. 岁月不待人

Time cannot be won again.

时间一去不再来

Time is , time was , and time is past.现在有时间,过去有时间,时间一去不复返

Time lost can not be recalled. 光阴一去不复返

Time flies like an arrow , and time lost never returns. 光阴似箭,一去不返

三时间是尺,万物皆检Time tries friends as fire tries gold.

时间考验朋友,烈火考验黄金Time tries truth.

时间检验真理Time is the father of truth.

时间是真理之父Time will tell.

时间能说明问题Time brings the truth to light.

时间使真相大白;或时间一到,真理自明; Time and chance reveal all secrets.

时间与机会能提示一切秘密Time consecrates: what is gray with age becomes

religion.

时间考验一切,经得起时间考验的就为人所信仰Time revealsdiscloses all things.

万事日久自明Time tries all. 时间检验一切

四时间是秤,衡量权质

There is no time like the present. 现在正是时候

Take time by the forelock. 把握目前的时机

To choose time is to save time. 选择时间就是节省时间

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today. 今日事,今日毕

Procrastination is the thief of time. 拖延为时间之窃贼

One of these days is none of these days. 拖延时日,终难实现;或:改天改天,不知哪天

Tomorrow never comes. 明天无尽头,明日何其多

趣味英语春节小知识

除夕夜,

每日英语祝大家新年快乐,万事如意

基本词汇与短语:

Greeting Season: 春节The Spring Festival

农历lunar calendar

正月lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar

除夕New Years Eve; eve of lunar New Year

初一the beginning of New Year

元宵节The Lantern Festival

Customs:过年

对联poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry

春联Spring Festival couplets

剪纸paper-cuts

买年货special purchases for the Spring Festival do Spring Festival shopping

年画New Year paintings

敬酒propose a toast

灯笼lantern: a portable light

烟花fireworks

爆竹firecrackers People scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.

红包red packets cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in

the coming year.

舞狮lion dance The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.

舞龙dragon dance to expect good weather and good harvests

戏曲traditional opera

杂耍variety show; vaudeville

灯谜riddles written on lanterns

灯会exhibit of lanterns

守岁staying-up

禁忌taboo

拜年pay New Year’s call; give New Years greetings; New Years visit

去晦气get rid of the ill- fortune

祭祖宗offer sacrifices to ones ancestors

压岁钱gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift

辞旧岁bid farewell to the old year

扫房spring cleaning; general house-cleaning

Food names:

年糕Nian-gao; rise cake; New Year cake

团圆饭family reunion dinner

年夜饭the dinner on New Year’s Eve

饺子Jiao-zi; Chinese meat ravioli

八宝饭eight treasures rice pudding

汤圆Tang-yuan; dumplings made of sweet rice, rolled into balls and stuffed with either

sweet or spicy fillings

糖果盘candy tray:

什锦糖assorted candies - sweet and fortune

蜜冬瓜candied winter melon - growth and good health

西瓜子red melon seed - joy, happiness, truth and sincerity