偷偷的告诉你：那些你不知道的英语单词小秘密

2017-06-10 15:42:42 来源: 子路教育网

　　※ The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only one word and that is Go .

　　英语里由一个单词组成的最短的完整的句子就是 GO 。

　　※ The oldest word in the English language is town .

　　英语里最有年头的一个词是 town 。

　　※ In England, till 1880s using the word pants was considered indecent.

　　在英国19世纪80年代以前，说 pants 这个词都会被人家认为不礼貌。

　　※ The word goodbye came from God bye , which in turn comes from God be with you .

　　goodbye 这个词其实是由 God bye 演变而来，而 God bye 又演变自 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 .

　　牛津字典里收录的最长单词是 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis 。而唯一可以与其匹敌的就是这个词的复数形式 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses 。

　　※ The word with most number of definitions in the English language is set .

　　英语中含义最多的词是 set 。

　　※ 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.

　　在英语中有一个由7个字母组成的单词可以被依次分解为 the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein 这个词就是 therein 。