时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:趣味英语


英语课

  有一块寓学于嘻的天地往往为英语自学者所忽视。 这块天地就是发表在英语刊物边边角角里的英语 绕口令、谜语和幽默。任何语言大致都有三个层 次:语音、词汇和语法。狭义而言,学习语言实 际上就是要掌握语言的这三个层次。而英语绕口令。谜语和幽默对于英语的每个层次都有涉及, 堪称英语自学者的良师益友。

  许多同学在学习英语语音的时候,往往受方言的影响,发不准这个或那个音素。要纠正这些发得 不准的音,练习绕口令无疑是一种有趣并且有效的方法。 Eg. She sels seashells on the seashore. Eg. Six silly sleepers 1 slept softly on silk sheets. 绕口令是可以自编的,从词典中找出一些含有同音素的词来构成一句有趣的句子即成。

  有些英语谜语也有助于我们掌握语音。 Eg. What twoletters mean nothing? 答案是MT。MT的发音是[emti:],酷似empty的发音。这则谜语不仅帮助我们学会并且记牢empty 的发音,也可以加深我们对于失去爆破现象的理解。

  能够说明词汇问题的谜语,幽默可谓俯抬皆是,给我们提供的帮助也是多方面的。

  1.拼写: What is the smallest room in the world? 答案是a mushroom。这则谜语帮助我们记住 mushroom(蘑菇)的拼写,因为这单词有一部分是room。

  A: Which seven-lettered word has three "u"s in it?  B: I don't know. But it must be unusual. B没猜着却说对了。这种戏剧性的幽默会使我们记住unusual的拼写中有三个"u"。

  2.同音异形词: Peter:Tom,why do you prefer a pear to an apple? Tom: Because it takes tow apples to make a pair(pear).

  3.一词多义: Teacher:Tom, how many states are there in the US? Tom: Fifty. Teacher:Enumerate them. Tom: One, two, three, ... enumerate既有"数、点"的意思,又有"枚举、列举" 的意思。

  4.习惯用法: Teacher: Jim,why can't we lose our heads? Jim: If we lose our heads, we will have nothing to put our hats on. to lose one's head当作成语用时,意思是"失 去理智,惊慌失措",只有了解这一点,才能明白此中幽默所在。

  谜语、幽默说明语法问题的也不乏其例。例如: The Mother: My daughter has been learning piano lessons under you for quite a long time. What do you think of her execution now? The pianist: That could be a nice thing to do.

  execution既有"演奏",又有"处死刑"的意思,而物主代词和它所限定的表示动作的名词之间既可以是 主谓关系,也可以是动宾关系, 因此, her execution既可理解为"她的演奏",也可理解为"处她以死刑",显然,钢琴家理解的是后一种意思。又如:

  Willy:I thought I told you to come after supper. Milly:That's what I come after. Wiliy的本意是:我想我是让你晚饭后再来的。然而如果我们不把 after supper看作状语,而将come after看作是表示"寻求"的词组,把supper看成这个动词词组的宾语,同样的一句话就会变为"我想我是 让你来找晚饭吃"的意思。显然,这里的幽默产生于 对于句子结构的不同理解。

  的确,英语绕口令、谜语、幽默对于英语自学的帮助是多方面的,充分地利用这块天地,寓学于嬉,定能 收到事半功倍的效果。

n.卧铺(通常以复数形式出现);卧车( sleeper的名词复数 );轨枕;睡觉(呈某种状态)的人;小耳环
  • He trod quietly so as not to disturb the sleepers. 他轻移脚步,以免吵醒睡着的人。 来自辞典例句
  • The nurse was out, and we two sleepers were alone. 保姆出去了,只剩下我们两个瞌睡虫。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
absolute gauge
advertisement for
Alexander, Sir Harold Rupert, Leofric George
almagate
alter shield
amino-benzene
arithmetical register
armor platings
arthropod families
artificial feature of the terrain
Aztec two-step
biddeposit
Biddery ware
blow her away
branch division of district courts
Brieger's bacillus
Buqay'ā'
burden rates
Chateauroux
Chlorococaceae
cinnamic acid
co-operationist
conditional takeover bid
corallinum
corporation's own stock
crinkling
debouzy
dfsk(bouble frequency shift keying)
diagnostic radiologist
discharge one's pistol in the air
dragonhead
dragonize
drop off the hooks
droppest
due-process
entry certificate
feed cock
fire control plan
flutamide
forecast note
formal value parameter
gametogenic cell division
GGBP
Gostima
have the heart
hoop-man
hydrogasification of pretreated coal
hyperlithria
index plate housing
Indian River
inheritance hierarchies
intropunitiveness
iron chloride
isopolytungstate
Kuhnt's operation
leave in trust with
lituiticone
long geometry
Lost Nation
luminous star
mantas
mechanicaltwin
messianist
Messrs
platycrepis yangi
pleasure center n.
pohjola
praxinpscope
prevacuumizing
procedings
psychologic attributes of colour sensation
rank-orders
rationalization of production
relativistic quantum theory
resolvase
ronchamp
rozanov
Ruth Glacier
Saskatchewan
sausage casings
self-repairing system
Serum antidiphthericum purificatum
shatters
sheeit
silent mode
single shaft turbogenerator
Siren Bay
Spanish West Africa
subungual wart
synchronous cleavage
taken my breath away
Too Irish !
tripp
UBV system
unmelancholic
virilescence
weight units
weisweiler
wild cherry tree
woodholes
zairite
zymoexcitator