那些你不知道的单词小秘密
1.?The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only one word and that is "Go".
英語里由一個(gè)單詞組成的最短的完整的句子就是"GO".
2. 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))".
3.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(huì)被人家認(rèn)為不禮貌。
4.?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".
5.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)".而唯一可以與其匹敵的就是這個(gè)詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses".(親呀,別再說單詞難記了,學(xué)醫(yī)的才傷不起啊!!)
6.The word with most number of definitions in the English language is "set".
英語中含義最多的詞是"set".(數(shù)一數(shù)你知道多少種~不然就問一下小詞吧)
7.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".
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