偷偷告訴你:那些你不知道的英語單詞小秘密
。※ The oldest word in the English language is “town”.英語里最有年頭的一個(gè)詞是“town(城鎮(zhèn))”。※ In England, till 1880s using the word “pants” was considered indecent.在英國19世紀(jì)80年代以前,說“pants(褲子)”這個(gè)詞都會被人家認(rèn)為不禮貌。(褲子好命苦~)※ The word “goodbye” came from “God bye”, which in turn comes from “God be with you”.“goodbye(再見)”這個(gè)詞其實(shí)是由“God bye”演變而來,而“God bye”又演變自“God be with you”。※ According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest word in the English language is “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis”. The only other word with so many letters is its plural, “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses”.牛津字典里收錄的最長單詞是“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis(硅酸鹽沉著病就是傳說中的矽肺病)”,學(xué)習(xí)資料
《偷偷告訴你:那些你不知道的英語單詞小秘密》(http://www.msguai.com)。而唯一可以與其匹敵的就是這個(gè)詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses”。(這么長!學(xué)醫(yī)的人傷不起。!)※ The word with most number of definitions in the English language is “set”.英語中含義最多的詞是“set”。(大家可以數(shù)一數(shù)自己知道多少種哦~)※ There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, and that seven-letter word is, “therein”, which contains: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.在英語中有一個(gè)由7個(gè)字母組成的單詞可以被依次分解為“the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein(在其中), herein(在這方面)”這個(gè)詞就是“therein”。(乃是變形金剛咩!濃縮就是精華!精華啊!快記著。。〔偷偷告訴你:那些你不知道的英語單詞小秘密〕隨文贈(zèng)言:【受惠的人,必須把那恩惠常藏心底,但是施恩的人則不可記住它。——西塞羅】