英语单词的那些冷知识,你知道多少？

英语单词的那些冷知识，你知道多少？

【英语单词的冷知识】

1、The word

单词run有645条词义。

2、The word
place

单词Utopia（乌托邦）来源于希腊文，原意“Noplace（无此地方）”

3、The word

香草这个单词vanilla来自拉丁文单词“vagina”。

4、X – The letter X, according to research done by IED, was
first used by naturalist Gilbert White in a 1763 letter to
represent a kiss.

X这个字母1763年才第一次被使用，代表kiss。

5、Computer – In 1613 the word computer was once referred
to as a person. Since then it has evolved to mean a machine
since 1869 and then to an electronic device since 1946.

Computer这个词最早是指人。1869年以后开始指机器、1946年后指
电脑。

6、Daisy – The word daisy is a contraction of the words
‘Day’s eye’. This is because a daisy opens throughout the
day and closes of a night.

Daisy（雏菊）是Day's eye的缩写。因为雏菊的花朵是白天打开、
晚上合起来。

7、If you mouth the word
saying

你做唇语：colorful，看上去就像说I love you.

8、stewardesses
left hand because all the letters are on the left side of the
typical English keyboard

Stewardesses（女乘务员），是最长的只用左手就能在电脑键盘上打
出来的单词。

9、
hand, if your right hand stays on the right side of the
keyboard.

Lollipop（棒棒糖），是最长的只用右手就能在电脑键盘上打出来的
单词。

10、
letters

Dreamt是一个结尾为mt的单词。

11、There are only four words in the English language which
end in ： tremendous, horrendous, stupendous,
hazardous.

英语中dous结尾的单词只有四个：tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, hazardous。

12、Swims – The word swims when turned upside down will
still be written as swims. These words are called ambigrams.

Swims颠倒过来还是swims。这种现象叫ambigrams（对称词）。

13、The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is
“I.”

最古老、最短、最常用的单词是I。其它类似的还有“we,” “two,”
and “three.”

14、“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the
English language.

I am是英语中最完整、最短的句子。

15、A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in
the language. For example, the sentence “The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog” is a pangram.

Pangram意思是“全字母短句”，即一句话包含全部字母。例如The
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog。

16、English is the language of the air. This means that all
pilots have to identify themselves and speak in English while
flying, regardless of their origin.

English is the language of the air. 这句话是指：英语是航空界
的通用语言。

17、Girl used to mean small boy or girl.

Girl和man最早都是中性的。

18、Fast-forward to the 19th century and the word * referred
to a woman who was a prostitute and a * man was someone who
slept with a lot of women.

*（男*）这 个词在19世纪时，指的是*女和男*。源于它的一个词义
carefree（不负责任的）。

19、The word
normal use that contains no letter more than once.

Uncopyrightable（不受版权保护的）这个单词中，没有一个字母被
重复使用。

20、The word
phrase

Checkmate（象棋中的“将军”）。来自于波斯语，意思是the king
is helpless（国王处在无助中）.