精选英语谜语100则

1.What is smaller than an insect's mouth?

2.What season is the most dangerous one?

3.What's too much for me,just right for two,but nothing at all for three?

4.On what day of a year do soldiers start wars in history?

5.How many feet are in a yard?

6.What person tries to make others smile most of the time?

7.From what number can one take half and leave nothing?

8.What has hands but no feet, a face but no eyes,tells but does not talk?

9.How many months have 28 days?

10.Which horses have six legs?

Keys (I)

1.Anything it eats.

2.Autumn. Because it is also FALL.

3.A secret.

4.March fourth.When a war breaks out,they'll have to march forth.

5.It depends on how many people are standing in it.

6.A photographer.

7.The number 8.

8.Take away the upper half and 0 is left.

8.A clock.

9.All of them.Each month has its 28th day.

10.All horses have forelegs(four legs) in front and two in back, so they all have six legs Riddles (II)

11.Why don't babies need glasses?

12.What do you drop when you need it and take back when you don't?

13.What's the difference between a monkey and a flea(跳蚤)?

14.What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?

15.What 5-letter word has six left when you take 2 letters away?

16.What is the center of gravity?

17.What never asks questions but always gets answers?

18.When Columbus discovered America,where did he stand?

19.What is "four feet on four feet waiting for four feet?

20.When the boy fell into the water,what's the first thing he did?

Keys (II)

11.Because they like bottles better.

12.An anchor.(锚)

13.A monkey can have fleas,but a flea can't have monkeys.

14.A blackboard.

15.Sixty.

16.The letter V.

17.A doorbell.

18.On his feet.

19.A cat on a chair waiting for a mouse.

20.He got wet first.

21.Who isn't your sister and isn't your brother,but is still a child of your mother and father?

22.What has teeth but can't eat?

23.What kind of man can raise things without lifting them?

24.Which candle burns longer:a black one or a white one?

25.Why does a cook wear a high,white hat?

26.Can you name five days of the week without saying: Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday,Friday?

27.What kind of dog never can bite and bark?

28.What has a soft bed but never sleeps,a big mouth but never speaks?

29.Four girls have a basket with four apples in it.How can you divide the apples so that each girl gets a whole apple and one still remains in the basket?

30.Which eight-letter word has one letter in it?

Keys (III)来源:壹壹英语

21.You yourself are.

22.A comb.

23.A farmer.He can raise pigs, chickens and so on without lifting them.

24.Neither.Because all candles burn shorter.

25.To cover his head.

26.The day before yesterday,yesterday,today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow.

27.A hot dog.

28.A river.

29.Give three girls an apple each,and give the fourth girl her apple in the basket.

30.Envelope.

Riddles (IV)

31.Three men were under one umbrella,but none of them got wet.How do they do it?

32.Where does afternoon always come before morning?

33.How much earth can you take from a hole 2 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 feet deep?

34.What rises in the morning and waves all day?

35.What is pronounced like one letter,written with three letters,and belongs to all animals?来源：https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

36.Why can you tell clocks are shy?

37.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?

38.What cannot be seen but only heard,and will not speak unless spoken to?

39.What word can you make shorter by adding two letters to it?

40.What part of a clock is always old?

Keys (IV)

31.It was not raining.

32.In a dictionary.

33.None.Because it has been taken out already.

34.A flag.

35.Eye.

36.Because they always have their hands in front of their faces.

37.Trouble.

38.An echo.(回声)

39.Short.

40.The second hand.

41.What person does every man take his hat off to?

42.What can you swallow than can also swallow you?

43.Which three letters can frighten a thief away?

44.What appears once in every minute,twice in every moment, but not once in thousand years?

45.What would you say if you saw a ghost(鬼)?

46.Which is the left side of a cake?

47.A police saw a truck driver going the wrong down a one - way street,but paid no attention to him.Why?

48.Where should the milk be best stored ?

49.What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle?

50.What always has one eye open but can't see?

Keys (V)

41.A barber.

42.Water

43.I C U

44.The letter M.

45.I would say nothing and run as fast as possible.

46.The side that isn't eaten.

47.The truck driver was walking there.

48.In a cow.

49.The ground.

50.A needle.

Riddles ( VI )

51.What goes all over the house,but touches nothing?

52.What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than by yourself?

53.Which letter of the alphabet separates Europe from Africa?

54.Why is a river rich?

55.I have cities but no houses,forests but no trees; rivers but without water;what am I?

56.A man jumped from a plane,but there was nothing wrong with him.Do you know why?

57.In a train,a woman saw other peoples' faces were dirty. What would she do,do you know?

58.Why did John say he didn't know where the sun was?

59.Where does a person stay for the longest time in his life?

60.Why does Tom's mother go to work by plane every day?

Keys ( VI )来源:壹壹英语

51.A sound or voice.

52.My name.

53.The letter "C".

54.Because it has two banks.

55.A map.

56.Because the plane is on the ground.

57.She would close her eyes,of course.

58.Because it was at night.

59.In bed.

60.Because she works in a plane.

Riddles ( VII )

61.What man can not live inside a house?

62.What match can't be put in a match box?

63.What is it,which will tomorrow and was be yesterday?

64.What has many teeth but never uses them for eating?

65.The more you take away, the bigger I become. What am I?

66.What is that which has no leg but a body and a long neck?

67.What part of London is in Brazil?

68.What is that you ought to keep after you give it to somebody else?

69.When is it correct to say "I is"?

70.What is that which has a mouth,but never speaks, and a bed, but never sleeps in it?https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

Keys ( VII )

61.A snowman.

62.Football match,basketball match,and so on.

63.Today.

64.A comb.

65.A hole.

66.A bottle.

67.The letter "L".

68.A promise.

69.When we say "I is a pron."

70.A river.

Riddles ( VIII )

71.What two things can't you have for breakfast?

72.What do most gardeners not like to grow?

73.If a band plays in a thunderstorm,who is most likely to get hit by lightening?

74.If you were to throw a white stone into the Red Sea, what would it become?

75.How many sweets can you put into an empty bag?

76.How can you leave the room with two legs and return with six legs?

77.How could you fall off a twenty-foot ladder and not get hurt?

78.I unwrapped a lump of sugar and put it in my coffee. The sugar didn't get wet.Why?

79.If it takes three and a half minutes to boil one egg, how long does it take to boil four eggs?

80.If three birds are sitting on a fence and you shoot and kill one of them,how many will be left?https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

Keys ( VIII )

71.Lunch and supper.

72.They don't like to grow their age.

73.Conductors are.

74.It remains a white stone.

75.One sweet.Because a second sweet can't be put into an empty pocket.

76.Fetch a chair somewhere ,and you'll understand it.

77.The ladder might be lying on the ground instead of against a wall.

78.You have not had water yet.

79.Three and a half minutes.

80.One - the dead one.

Riddles ( IX )

81.When is your uncle's sister not your aunt?

82.Mrs.Smith has nine children,half of them are girls. How can this be true?

83.Where can you never tell the truth?

84.What goes over the fields all day,and sits in the cupboard all night?

85.What walks around all day and lies under the bed at night with its tongue hanging out?

86.How many cheese sandwiches can you eat on an empty stomach?

87.When will a net hold water?

88.Why is a room full of married couples empty?

89.What table has no leg?

90.What tables grow in the fields?

Keys ( IX )

81.When she is my mother.

82.The others are also girls.

83.When you are lying anywhere.

84.Our clothes.

85.Our shoes.

86.Only one.

87.When the water is frozen.

88.Because there is not a single man in the room.

89. A timetable or vegetable.

90.Vegetables.

Riddles ( X )

91.Which American man has had the largest family?

92.A hungry donkey was tied to a rope eight feet long. About thirty feet away there was a basket of fresh carrots. The donkey wanted to eat those carrots.How did he reach them?

93.What can you hold in your left hand,but not in your right hand?

94.I have seven letters.

The first two stand for a boy.

The first three stand for a girl.

The first four stand for a brave boy.

95.Why does a man's hair become grey before his moustaches?

96.Why are people close to their mothers instead of their fathers?

97.Where can you easily put your right hand,but can never put your left hand?

98.What question can never get answer "YES."?

99.What is the beginning of everything,also the end of life?

100.Mary had a big dog,and I had a smaller one.One day,the two dogs raced to see which ran faster.The dogs were soon tired out. Finally,my dog won the 10-mile race. Now which dog had more sweat on its body?：https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

Keys ( X )

91.George Washington.He was Father of America.

92.The donkey can eat those carrots easily. Because the other end of the rope was not tied to anything.

93.You can hold your right hand in your left hand, but you can not hold your right hand in your right hand.

94.HEROINE.

95.Because a man's moustaches come up after his hair.

96.Because their father is always farther(father).

97.You can easily put your right hand on your left elbow, but you never put your left hand there.

1.Have you heard the saying: what goes up must come down? Well what goes up and never goes down?

2.My thunder comes before my lightning. My lightning comes before my rain. My rain dries up all the land it touches. What am I?

3.You can see it, but you can't touch it. It may disappear, but has never really left you. It grows throughout the day. What is it?

4.What common English verb becomes its own past tense by rearranging its letters?

5.I have holes on the top and bottom. And I have holes in the middle, yet I still hold water. I have holes on my left and on my rig. What am I?

6.A word I know, six letters it contains, Subtract just one, and twelve is what remains. What is the word?

7.What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

8.What object has keys that open no locks, space but no room, and you can enter but not go in?

9.Light as a feather, there is nothing in it; the strongest man can't hold it for much more than a minute?

10.What two words have the most letters in it?

keys

1.your age

2.I'm a Volcano.

3.shadow

4.Eat or Ate

5.a sponge

6.dozens

7.a river

8.a keyboard

9.breath

10.post office

[What do you call a girl who gambles？]

提示：Betty（贝蒂）是英语中常见的人名。把爱赌博（gamble）的女孩叫做Betty，因为bet的意思是“打赌”。https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html, [What do you call a man who arrives in your letter box？]

提示：Bill（比尔）是 William（威廉）的爱称，名词 bill的意思是“账单”。

[What do you call a man with a car on his head？]

提示：Jack是英语中常用的人名，名词jack有“千斤顶”的意思，可以顶起汽车。所以，把“头顶上有汽车的人”（a man with a car on his head）戏称为Jack

[What do you call a mouse if you put it in the freezer？]

提示：mouse（老鼠）的复数是mice，mice又使人想起了ice（冰）。所以把放在冰箱里的老鼠（a mouse you pu t in the freezer）戏称为mice。https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

[What do you call a person who steal hamburgers？]

提示：hamburglar是一个杜撰词，由hamburger+burglar拼缀而成的。

[What do you call a rich fish？]

提示：gold（金子）对应rich（有钱的）。所以把有钱的鱼（a rich fish）戏称为goldfish（金鱼）。

[What do you call a thief in a shoe shop？]

提示：名词sneaker的意思是“鬼鬼祟祟的人”，把偷鞋的小偷叫做sneaker还有一层言外之意，因为sneaker的另一个意思是“旅行鞋”。壹壹英语(https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,)

[What do you call a snake that works for the government？]

提示：serpent是“蛇”的意思。把在政府工作的蛇（a snake that works for the government）戏称为civil serpent，这是模仿civil servant（公职人员）而来的。

[What do you call a travelling flea？]

提示：由英语词hitch-hiker（免费搭车旅行的人）产生了这个谜语，旅行的虱子（travelling flea）被戏称为itch-hike r，因为itch的意思是“发痒”。

[What do you call a witch who goes to the beach but won't go in the water？]

提示：chicken（胆小的）对应won't go in the water（不敢下水）。

[What do you call an overweight pumpkin？]壹壹英语考试https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

提示：不管南瓜（pumpkin）是不是超重（overweight），还是叫南瓜。

[If a neighbour's peacock laid an egg in your yard，whose egg would it be？]

提示：cock是“公鸡”，hen是“母鸡”；而peacock既泛指“孔雀”，又特指“雄孔雀”。peacock特指“雄孔雀”的时候，pe ahen是“雌孔雀”，只有雌孔雀才能下蛋！

What can never be made right？]

提示：be made right有两个意思，一个是“纠正”，另一个是“变成右”。左耳（your left ear）当然变不成右耳。来源:壹壹英语

[What can you do if you can't sleep on an empty stomach？]

提示：sleep on an empty stomach的正常意义是“空着肚子睡觉”，谜面作“趴着睡觉”解的话，那么谜底就是“仰着睡觉”（sleep on your back）。

[What do you call musical insects？]

提示：hum是“哼哼”的意思，故而把有音乐细胞的昆虫（musical insects）称作humbugs。这里要说明一点，在英语里确实有humbug一词，意思是“欺骗”。

[How is an actor like a football player？]

提示：演员（actor）和足球运动员（football player）有何相像之处呢？英语的多义词play的两个意思“戏剧”和“踢球”是联系的纽带。壹壹英语论坛

[How does a vampire cross the ocean？]

提示：吸血鬼（vampire）怎样过海呢？vessel是“船”的意思，吸血鬼总得跟“血”有关系，那就乘blood vessel吧，只不过blood vessel的意思是“血管”！

[What can you make but not use？]

提示：短语make a mess的意思是“弄得一团糟”。

[How long can a goose stand on one leg？]

提示：有谁见过大鹅“金鸡独立”（stand on one leg）吗？既然没见过，那么就试试看吧（try it and see）。

[How many feet are there in a yard？]https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

提示：feet既可以作“英尺”解，又可以作“脚”解；yard既可以作“码”解，又可以作“院子”解。谜底故意取了第二解。

提示：跟上一个谜语的道理一样，在空的笼子里放进一只狮子以后，笼子就不是空的了。

[How much sand is there in a hole one metre long and one metre wide？]

提示：同样，“洞”（hole）里也不会有“砂子”（sand），有砂子的地方就不是洞。

[How was the lady's new air conditioner？]来源：壹壹英语

提示：leave somebody cold的字面意义是“使人感到冷”，比喻意义是“没有感觉”。空调机（air conditioner）能降温，出了毛病就不起作用，这位太太就“没有感觉”了。

[How would you divide thirteen apples evenly among twelve people？]

提示：把十三个苹果均匀地分给十二个人很难做到，除非是做成苹果酱（apple sauce）。

[How can you be sure to start a fire with two sticks？]

提示：要点火（start a fire）的话，用一根拨火棍（stick）就足够了，若要用第二根“棍”的话，肯定是火柴棍（match）。

[How can you light a candle with a box of candles and no matches？]

提示：谜面是“没有火柴怎样点燃一盒蜡烛？”谜底是“拿走一根蜡烛，就减少了一根蜡烛的分量。”似乎文不对题，其实，这里利用了light的歧义，light作为动词解是“点燃”的意思，作为形容词解是“轻”的意思。lighter还有“打火机”的意思。来源:壹壹英语

[How can you stop a sleepwalker from walking in his sleep？]

提示：不让人梦游（walk in his sleep）的简单办法是不让他睡着，这不是治病的办法，但是他醒着就确实不会梦游。

[How did the blotting paper manufacturer find his job？]

提示：吸水纸（blotting paper）的功能是吸水（absorbing），吸水纸制造商当然认为自己的行业是有吸引力的（absorbin g）。这里的absorbing一词一语双关。

[How did the gangster get caught？]https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

提示：“穿的鞋太紧而挤脚”是pinch，“逮捕”也是pinch。知道这个情况，谜底就不难理解了。

[How do you make a fisherman's net？]

提示：渔网（a fisherman's net）有网绳和网眼，现实里当然是由网绳结出网眼，“把网眼缝在一起”（Just sew a lot of holes together）这样的回答只不过是抬杠而已。

来源：壹壹英语

[How do you stop a mouse from squeaking？）

提示：squeak这个象声词可以用于老鼠的吱吱叫声，也可以用于未经润滑的铰链等的轧轧声。谜底oil it（给它加点油）看来不合情理，其实，给老鼠喝点油，它还真可能不叫了。

[How do you stop a cold from going to your chest？]壹壹英语论坛

提示：怎样防止寒气进入胸腔（stop a cold from going to your chest）？可以有各种有效的办法，谜底给了一个馊主意，但是没有错。

[How do you stop your dog from digging in the garden？]

提示：怎样阻止狗在花园里挖土（keep the rabbits from digging in the garden）？谜底“把铁锹拿走”（take away his spade）自然是一句戏言。来源：https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

[How do you stop a skunk from smelling？]

提示：smell有两个意思，一个是“发出气味”，另一个是“嗅”。谜面的意思当然应该取第一个意思，如果取第二个意思的话，即“怎样阻止臭鼬闻气味”，那么谜底“堵住它的鼻子”（hold its nose）不失为一种办法。来源：壹壹英语

[How do you stop the rabbits from digging in the yard？]

提示：怎样阻止兔子在院子里挖土（keep the rabbits from digging in the yard）？谜底“把铁锹藏起来”（hide the spade）也是一句戏言。

[How do you tell the naked truth？]

提示：naked truth（真相）和bare facts（赤裸裸的事实）是英语中两个常用的搭配，分别用于谜面和谜底，显得十分贴切。

[What can you put into a barrel to make it lighter？]（壹壹英语https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,）

提示：把桶（barrel）里装的东西拿走一些，挖出个空洞（hole），桶也就变轻了。

[How does a broom act？]

提示：扫帚怎样表演（How does a broom act）呢？谜底巧妙地运用了英语中的惯用搭配sweeping gestures（大幅度的挥手动作），因为sweeping（打扫）通常是跟扫帚联系在一起的。

[How does a fish in a hurry travel？]

提示：计程车是taxicab，海里有crab（螃蟹），taxi-crab是戏谑的说法。

用句子的歧义来制造幽默的效果。https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

[Have you heard of the joke about the knife？]

提示：刀（knife）可以用来杀人，当然是杀人的工具（killer），可是别忘了killer的另一个解释是“迷人的东西”！

What always speaks the truth but remains silent？]

提示：镜子（mirror）不会说话，但是能照出人的真面目。https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

[Should you eat your soup with your right or left hand？]

提示：你应该用右手还是用左手喝汤（Should you eat your soup with your right or left hand）？话虽这么说，其实你是用汤匙（spoon）喝汤。

[How can a hat talk？]

提示：帽子怎么能够说话呢？其实，这是个字谜，hat（帽子）加上个字母C就成为chat（闲谈）。

What animal took the most luggage into the Ark and what animal took the least？]

提示：trunk的一个意思是“象的鼻子”，另一个意思是“箱子”；comb 的一个意思是“鸡冠”，另一个意思是“梳子”。来源：壹壹英语

[What are a banker's favourite vowels？]

提示：I，O，U三个元音组成单词IOU，意思是“借据”（由I owe you 的读音缩略转义而成）。

[What are spider webs good for？]https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

提示：spider webs（蜘蛛网）对spider（蜘蛛）有用，这是不容置疑的

What are the little white things that bite？]

提示：bite的基本意思是“咬”。牙齿能“咬”，这是显而易见的。但是，谜面“What are the little white things that bite？”给人的第一印象是“咬人的小东西是什么”。

[What can have hundreds of limbs but can't walk？]

提示：这是个字谜。ant（蚂蚁）是单词giant（巨人）的一部分

[What band can't play music？

提示：band是“乐队”的意思，而rubber band是“橡皮筋”。

[What book has the most stirring chapters？]

壹壹英语考试https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

提示：stirring的一个意思是“激动人心的”，另一个意思是“（炒菜时）搅动的”。烹调书（a cook book）正适合。

[What breed of dog has no tail？]

提示：这是个字谜。dog（狗）是hot dog（热狗，面包夹香肠）的一部分。

[How does a ghost open his gate？]

提示：skeleton key是“万能钥匙”的意思，skeleton是“骷髅”的意思，鬼魂开门用skeleton key当然是戏言而已。壹壹英语考试https://www.360docs.net/doc/944084618.html,

[What cakes do children dislike？]

提示：cake的一个意思是“糕点”，另一个意思是“块”，例如：a cake of soap（一块肥皂）。

[What can a man be that a woman can't？]

提示：只有男人（man）才能当父亲（father

What can children do that adults can't？]

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[What can fall on a lake yet not make ripples in the water？]

提示：月光（moonlight）落在湖面上（fall on a lake）当然不会引起涟漪（make a ripple）。

[How do you make a turtle fast？]

提示：make a turtle fast也是个歧义短语，一个解释是“使乌龟爬得快”，另一个解释是“使乌龟禁食”。要使乌龟禁食，不给它喂食（stop feeding it）自然是一种办法

经典英语谜语35则

1.What month do soldiers hate?

--March (三月，行军)

3.Why is an empty purse always the same?

--There is no change in it. (零钱，变化)

4.What book has the most stirring chapters?

--A cook book. (动人的，搅拌的)

5.What kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?

--Hot dog. (热狗)

6.What is the smallest room in the world?

--Mushroom. (蘑菇)

7.What kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?

--Drink well water. (井水，健康的)

8.How do we know the ocean is friendly?

--It waves. (起波浪，招手致意)

9.Which can move faster, heat or cold?

--Heat, because you can catch cold. (追上冷，患感冒)

10.Why is the library the highest building?

--It has the most stories. (故事，（楼）层)

11. What table is in the field?

--Vegetable

12. What is the only thing you can break when you say its name?

--silence

13. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into?

--mirror

14. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and still has a name? --nothing

15. What changes a pear into a pearl?

--the letter “l”

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16. What question can never be answered by 'Yes'?

--Are you asleep?

17. What ship has two mates but no captain?

--courtship

18. What is the most difficult key to turn?

--a donkey

20. What is the surest way to double your money?

--Fold it.

21. Where does afternoon come before morning in the world?

--In the dictionary

22. What is the smallest bridge in the world?

--the bridge of a nose

23. What letter makes a road broad?

--letter B

24. What letter sounds like a vegetable?

--letter P

25. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?

--Because it is killed before it is cured (烧烤待处理)

26. What match can't be put in a match-box?

--Football match, basketball match, etc.

27. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?

--When they make 22.

28. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I? --A map

29. I am something that has teeth but can't eat. What am I?

--A comb

30. What is a sick man a controdiction?

--When he is an impatient patient.

31.What can hear without ears and answer without a mouth?

--An echo

32.What room has no walls,no doors,no windows,and no floors?

--A mushroom

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33.What is dark but is made by light ?

--A shadow

34.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of ?

--Trouble

35.What is black When it is clean and white when it is dirty?

--A blackboard

一篇经典英语文章(转载)

All that is beautiful poems and passages of life

things do not change; we change. sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

万物不变，是我们在变。你的衣服可以卖掉，但要保留你的思想

think it over……好好想想……

today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view;

今天我们拥有了更高层的楼宇以及更宽阔的公路，但是我们的性情却更为急躁，眼光也更加狭隘；

we spend more, but enjoy less;

我们消耗的更多，享受到的却更少；

we have bigger houses, but smaller families;

我们的住房更大了，但我们的家庭却更小了；

we have more compromises, but less time;

我们妥协更多，时间更少；

we have more knowledge, but less judgment;

我们拥有了更多的知识，可判断力却更差了；

we have more medicines ,but less health;

我们有了更多的药品，但健康状况却更不如意；

we have multiplied out possessions, but reduced out values;

我们拥有的财富倍增，但其价值却减少了；

we talk much, we love only a little, and we hate too much;

我们说的多了，爱的却少了，我们的仇恨也更多了；

we reached the moon and came back, but we find it troublesome to cross our own street and meet our neighbors;

我们可以往返月球，但却难以迈出一步去亲近我们的左邻右舍；

we have conquered the outer space, but not our inner space;

我们可以征服外太空，却征服不了我们的内心；

we have higher income, but less morals;

我们的收入增加了，但我们的道德却少了；

these are times with more liberty, but less joy;

我们的时代更加自由了，但我们拥有的快乐时光却越来越少；

we have much more food, but less nutrition;

我们有了更多的食物，但所能得到的营养却越来越少了；

these are the days in which it takes two salaries for each home, but divorces increase;

现在每个家庭都可以有双份收入，但离婚的现象越来越多了；

these are times of finer houses, but more broken homes;

现在的住房越来越精致，但我们也有了更多破碎的家庭；

that‘s why I propose, that as of today;

这就是我为什么要说，让我们从今天开始；

you do not keep anything for a special occasion. because every day that you live is a special occasion.

不要将你的东西为了某一个特别的时刻而预留着，因为你生活的每一天都是那么特别；

search for knowledge, read more ,sit on your porch and admire the view without paying attention to your needs;

寻找更我的知识，多读一些书，坐在你家的前廊里，以赞美的眼光去享受眼前的风景，不要带上任何功利的想法；

life is a chain of moments of enjoyment; not only about survival;

生活是一串串的快乐时光；我们不仅仅是为了生存而生存；

use your crystal goblets. do not save your best perfume,

and use it every time you feel you want it.

举起你的水晶酒杯吧。不要吝啬洒上你最好的香水，你想用的时候就享用吧！

remove from your vocabulary phrases like "one of these days" or "someday";

从你的词汇库中移去所谓的“有那么一天”或者“某一天”；

let‘s write that letter we thought of writing "one of these days"!

曾打算“有那么一天”去写的信，就在今天吧！

let‘s tell our families and friends how much we love them;

告诉家人和朋友，我们是多么地爱他们；

do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life;

不要延迟任何可以给你的生活带来欢笑与快乐的事情；

every day, every hour, and every minute is special;

每一天、每一小时、每一分钟都是那么特别；

and you don't know if it will be your last.

你无从知道这是否最后刻

5. Struggle on

-----Benjamin L. Hooks

My brothers and sisters…I want you to know that the struggle that we will face through the

remaining period of the eighties and on through the twenty-first century will not be an easy one.

It is fraught with pitfalls and plagued with setbacks, but we as a people have developed a

resiliency which has made it possible for us to survive slavery and vicious discrimination. We must

never tire or become frustrated by difficulties. We must transform stumbling blocks into stepping

stones and march on with the determination that we will make America a better nation…

Struggle on: we want more schoolhouses and less jail houses,

Struggle on: We want more books and less weapons,

Struggle on: We want more learning and less vice,

Struggle on: We want more employment and less crime in our communities

Struggle on: We want more justice and less vengeance,

Struggle on: We want more of our children to graduate from high school able to read and write, not

more on unemployment lines,

Struggle on: We want more statesmen and less politicians.

Struggle on: We want more workers in our ranks and less cynics,

Struggle on: We want more hope and less dope,

Struggle on: We want more faith and less despair…

坚持斗争

兄弟姐妹们，……我希望你们明白，我们在八十年代剩余的时间里乃至整个二十一世纪所要面临的都将不是一场轻松的斗争，这其中充满了危险和曲折。但是我们的民族从奴隶制和万恶的歧视下幸存至今，有着顽强的生命力。我们要永远不知疲惫，在困难面前不灰心丧气。我们要把绊脚石变成脚踏板，带着把美国变得更美好的决心前进……坚持斗争，我们要多一些校舍，少一些监狱

坚持斗争，我们要多一些书籍，少一些武器

坚持斗争，我们要多一些知识，少一些罪恶

坚持斗争，我们要多一些工作，社区里少一些犯罪

坚持斗争，我们要多一些正义，少一些报复

坚持斗争，我们要多一些希望，少一些麻木

坚持斗争，我们要多一些信心，少一些绝望

8.Why are You Laughing?

Thus laughter gradually became established as a capacity among virtually all human beings. In

addition, laughter’s infectious quality helped distribute it as a characteristic common to all

mankind. Laughter was advantageous; therefore it survived.

Everyone likes a good laughter; he brings good cheer with him wherever he goes, the very thought of

him makes life more bearable. Even today our most highly paid entertainers are not tragedians but

comedians. Laughter is infectious, and most of us go out of our way to acquire the infection. We

cannot think that it was otherwise in the earlier days of man’s evolution, and if that was indeed

so, then it would follow that the capacity to laugh would tend to become increasingly distributed

as a trait common to all men.

In society, laughter became a characteristic that served to “humanized” men because it is

essentially a social phenomenon, largely controlled by the civilization in which it takes place.

The times change, and the situations about which laughter is acceptable change correspondingly. A

few hundred years ago it was socially acceptable to laugh at the infirmities of others; today it is

unacceptable. In the western world it is not customary to smile at the reprimands of others, as it

is in Japan. Personalities should smile or laugh in their photographs, but college professors

should look serious. Each of these examples underscores laughter’s social function.

这样，笑就逐渐成为全人类的一种能力。此外，笑的感染力有助于把笑作为全人类共有的一种特性进行传播。笑是有益的，所以笑就流传了下来。

大家都喜欢善于笑的人，无论他到何处，都带着令人愉快的欢笑，一想起他就会使生活变得比较可以忍受的了。就是在今天，享有高薪的娱乐者仍是喜剧演员。笑具有感染力，我们中的大多数人都乐于接受这种感染。我们认为，在人类进化的早期，情况不会与此相反。果真如此的话，那么就会得出这样的结论：笑这种能力会倾向于不断的传播，从而成为全人类共有的一种特性。

在社会中，笑成为一种特性，它可使人“具有人性”，因为笑实质上是一种社会现象，在很大程度上是受到它所产生的那个文明的制约。时代在前进，作为能使笑成为可接受的周围的情景也在相应的改变。曾在几百年前，嘲笑别人的缺陷，还是受到社会接受的。而今天则不能接受了。在西方社会，人们不习惯于当别人责骂时，还去微笑，但在日本却可以。电影明星应在照片中微笑或大笑，而大学教授则应表现的严肃些。这些例子都强调了笑的社会作用。

9.Let Your Mind Wonder

Until recently daydreaming was generally considered either a waste of time or a symptom of neurotic

tendencies, and habitual daydreaming was regarded as evidence of maladjustment or an escape from

life’s realities and responsibilities. It was believed that habitual daydreaming would eventually

distance people from society and reduce their effectiveness in coping with real problems. At its

best, daydreaming was considered a compensatory substitute for the real things in life.

As with anything carried to excess, daydreaming can be harmful. There are always those who would

substitute fantasy lives for the rewards of real activity. But such extremes are relatively rare,

and there is a growing body of evidence to support the fact that most people suffer from a lack of

daydreaming rather than an excess of it. We are now beginning to learn how valuable it really is

and that when individuals are completely prevented from daydreaming, their emotional balance can be

disturbed. Not only are they less able to deal with the pressures of day-to-day existence, but also

their self-control and self-direction become endangered.

Recent research indicates that daydreaming is part of daily life and that a certain amount each day

is essential for maintaining equilibrium. Daydreaming, science has discovered, is an effective

直到最近白日做梦通常被认为不是浪费时间就是要患精神病的征兆。习惯性白日做梦被看做精神失调的证据或是对现实生活和责任的逃避。人们相信，习惯性白日做梦会使人远离社会，降低其处理现实问题的效率。最好的情况来讲，白日做梦被认为是代替生活现实的补偿品。

任何事情做得过分都可能有害，白日做梦也是一样。总有那么一些人，他们用想入非非的生活来代替实际活动得到的好处。但是这一类极端的情况极为罕见，愈来愈多的资料都能证明这样一种看法：大多数人的白日梦做的太少了，而不是太多了。现在我们才开始了解到它确实是多么有价值。当一个人被禁止做白日梦时，他们的感情平衡就可以被搅乱。不仅使他们更难以对付日常的生活压力，而且他们的自我控制和自我定向变得岌岌可危。最近的研究表明，白日做梦是日常生活的一部分，每天做一定数量的白日梦多保持平衡是必不可少的。科学已经发现白日梦是一种有效的消遣技巧。但它的有利影响不只这一点，实验表明，白日梦特别有助于智力的发展，有助于全神贯注的能力和与人交往、交流的能力。

10.Pens

Small as it is, the pen has changed the course of history, shaped the destiny of nations,

facilitated the commerce of peoples, imprisoned the elusive thoughts of man, recorded events,

carried news, and done more work for mankind than all other tools or weapons.

Progress without it would have been almost impossible. The invention of the wheel and screw, the

introduction of steam-power, the use of electricity, all these have changed the lives of millions;

but the pen has done more. It has removed mountains. It has prepared the way for all advancement.

Whatever plans have been drawn up, whatever laws formulated, have come from the pen.

笔

笔虽很小，却已经改变了历史的进程，决定了民族的兴衰，推进了民间的贸易, 钳制了难以捉摸的不良思想，记录事件，传播消息，为人类做了比任何其他工具或武器更多的工作。

没有它，进步几乎是不可能的。车轮和螺丝的发明，蒸汽机的问世，电力的使用，所有这些都曾改变了亿万人的生活；然而，笔却做得更多。他创造了奇迹。他为所有的前进铺平了道路。任何计划的拟订，任何法律的制定，无一不出自于笔。

We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; we have more degrees，

but less common sense; more knowledge，but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more

medicine, but less wellness.

We spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get to angry too quickly, stay up too

late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too often, and pray too seldom. We have

multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too little and lie too

often. We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life. not life to

years.

We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend

more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.

We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new

neighbor. We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner space. We’ve split the atom，but not our

prejudice; We write more, but learn less; plan more, but accomplish less.

We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait; we have higher incomes, but lower morals. We build more

computers to hold more information, to produce more copies, but have less communication. We are

incomes, but more divorce; fancier houses, but broken homes.

我们这个时代的尴尬

我们居住的房屋越来越宽敞，家庭却越来越小型化；可以享受的生活便利日益增多，属于自己的时间却日趋减少；我们获得了一张又一张学位证书，却愈加频繁地陷入对常识的茫然中；我们广泛地涉猎各类知识，却越来越缺乏对于外界事物的准确把握和判断；专家越来越多，问题却也日渐增加；药物越吃越多，健康却每况愈下。

我们花钱太疯，笑容太少，开车太快，发怒太急，熬夜太晚，起身太累，文章读得太少，电视看得太多，祷告做得太少。我们不断聚敛物质财富，却逐渐丢失了自我价值。我们的话语太多，真爱太少，谎言泛滥。我们掌握了谋生手段，却不懂得生活真谛；我们让年华付诸流水，却不曾将生命倾注其中。

我们的住房越来越好，脾气却越来越糟；我们行驶的道路越来越宽阔，眼光却越来越狭隘。我们付出很多，可获得的很少；我们购买了很多，可从中得到的乐趣却很少。

我们能够往返于地球与月球之间,却不乐于穿过马路向新邻居问好。我们可以征服外部空间，却慑于走进内心世界。我们可以击碎原子，却不能突破思想偏见；我们写得很多，可学到的很少；计划很多，可完成的很少。

我们学会了追赶时间，却没学会耐心等待；我们拥有的财富越来越多，道德品质却日益沦丧。我们生产更多的电脑用于存储更多的信息和制造更多的拷贝，而相互间的交流与沟通却越来越少。我们拥有的是数量，缺乏的是质量。这是一个快餐食品和消化迟缓相伴的时代；一个体格高大和性格病态并存的时代；一个追名逐利和人情冷漠相生的时代。我们的休闲多了。乐趣却少了；食品种类多了，营养却少了；双薪家庭增加了，离婚率也激升了；居室的装修华丽了，家庭却残缺破碎了。

19. How To Grow Old

Bertrand Russell

An individual human existence should be like a river --- small at first, narrowly contained within

its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows

wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break,

they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age,

can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for

will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will be

not unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I

can no longer do, and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

老之将至

一个人的一生好比一条河，开始是涓涓细流，限制在狭窄的两岸之间，然后激烈地冲过巨石，冲下瀑布。渐渐地，河宽了，两岸退去，河水舒缓，最后与大海毫无痕迹地融为一体，毫无痛苦地失去了个体的存在。一个人在其暮年时能这样看待自己的一生就不会因怕死而苦恼，因为他所关心的事情将继续下去。而且如果随着精力衰退，疲倦之感日渐增加，长眠的念头便未尝不是一件好事。我宁愿在工作中死去，知道别人在继续我不能再做的事情，想到自己尽了力，也就无限的安慰了。

./Let's begin our class/lesson. 我们开始上课吧。2. Sit down, please. 请坐下。3. Who's on duty today? 今天谁值日？4. Is everyone here? 都到齐了吗？5. Don't be late next time.下次别迟到。6. Go back to your seat, please. 请回到你的座位。7. Ready? /Are you ready?准备好了吗？8. Listen carefully, please.请听仔细了。9. Listen to the tape recorder/the recording.请听录音。10. In pairs, please.两人一组进行练习。11.Let's do it one by one.我们一个一个地做。12. Now you, please./It's your turn now.现在该你了。13. Think it over and try again.仔细想想，再试一次。14. Say/ Read after me, please.请跟着我说/读。15. In English,please.请用英语回答。16. Please take out your books.请把你们的书拿出来。17. Please answer my question(s).请回答我的问题。18. Please stop now./Stop now, please./Stop here,please.请停下来。19. Stop talking./Stop talking now,please.请不要讲话了。20. Time is up.下课时间到了。

1. 上课Class begin./ It’s time for class. Let’s have / start the lesson. Let’s begin our lesson.

2. 起立Stand up.

3. 同学们好Good morning./ afternoon, everyone/ everybody/ boys and girls.

4. 请坐Sit down, please. Please be seated.

5. 今天谁值日？Who is on duty today?

6. 大家都来了吗？Is anyone absent?

7. 出席多少人？How many students are present?

8. 班级共有多少人？How many students are there in your class?

9. 谁没来？Who is not here? Who isn’t at school today? Who doesn’t come to school today?

10.你知道他为什么没来吗？What’s the matter with him? Do you know? 11.今天几月几日？What’s the date today? 12.今天星期几？What day is it today? 13.今天天气怎么样？What’s the weather like today? / How is the weather? 14.今天很冷是吧？It’s very cold, isn’t it? / It’s a cold day, isn’t it? 15.李雷，去看看是谁？Go and see, Li Lei. 16.请进Come in, please. 17.请回，下次早点来Go to your se at, please. But don’t be late next time. Go and sit down. Come earlier next time. 18.坐好了，请脱帽Sit straight, please. Take off your cap, please. 19.讲讲你星期天都做了些什么事好吗？What did you do last Sunday? Can you tell us? Would you please tell us what you did last Sunday? 20.那么，你能给我们讲一个故事吗？Well, could you tell us a story? 21.谁愿意到这儿来给大家讲一个故事？Who’d like to tell us a story here? 22.到谁的了？Whose turn ( is it )? 23.小张，到你的了，到这来给大家讲个故事Xiao Zhang, it’s your turn. Come here and tell us a story. 24.大家注意听，然后就他讲的故事进行问答．Listen to him carefully, then ask and answer about the story. 25.就你所喜欢的话题进行对话．Make a dialogue in pairs about any topics you like. 26.好了，该学第八课了．Well, it’s time to learn Lesson 8. Well, let’s learn the 8th lesson. 27.今天这节课，我们学习新课，第八课．Today in this class we’ll learn a n ew lesson, Lesson 8. 28.学习新课前，我们复习一下第七课的生词和短语．Before the new lesson Let’s revise / go over the new words and phrases in Lesson 7. 29.拿出练习本来，我们来听写．Take out your exercise books. Let’s have a dictation. 30.我叫两个学生到黑板上来写．I ask two students to write on the blackboard. 31.谁愿来写？Any volunteers? Who would like to do it here? Who would like to come here and write on the blackboard?

32.准备好了吗？开始！Are you ready? (Let’s ) Begin. 33.就听写到这，把你们写的交上来．So much for the dictation. Please hand them in. 34.现在看图，两人一组进行问答．Now look at the pictures, then ask and answer in pairs. 35.谈论这幅图，可多可少．Talk about the picture. You can say more or less. Say something about the picture more or less.

36.表演第七课的对话．Act out the dialogue in Lesson 7. 37.看教学挂图，回答我的问题．Look at the wall charts and answer my/ the questions. 38.在图上你能看到什么？What can you see in the picture? 39.还有吗？还有什么吗？Anything else / more? Any other things? 40.看图一，猜一猜发生了什么事？Look at Picture 1, and guess what ( has ) happened?

1. 谁能回答这个问题？Who would like to answer this question? Who can answer it?

2. 会的举手！Hands up if you can. Put up/ Raise your hands if you know the answer.

3. 好，你来答．OK, you please.

4. 下一个，你请来(答，做) Next / The next one, you please.

5. 小李，你能回答这个问题吗？Can you (answer this one), Xiao Li?

6. 小林，你呢？(你能回答吗？) What /How about you, Xiao Lin?

7. 你来回答这个题好吗？Would you like to / please answer this one?

8. 试一试，错了没关系．Just have a try. It doesn’t matter if you make any mistake.

9. 是否正确？( Is he / that / it )Right or wrong? Yes or no? 0.正确/ 错误Right./ Yes./ Wrong. / No. 11.正确吗？( Is it / that / he) Right? 12.是的，正确．Yes, ( it / he) is right. 13.不，不正确．No, ( it / he) is wrong. 14.谁来再做一次？Who would like/ wants to do it again? 16.谁能用另一种方式来做？Who can do/ say it in a different other way?

17.谁有不同观点/ 看法? Who has a different idea/ opinion? 18.你是什么观点？/ 你的看法如何？What’s your opinion?

19.没听清，请你再说一遍．( I beg your ) pardon? I didn’t hear clearly. Please say it again/ repeat it.

20.请大声点．( A little ) Louder, please. 21.稍慢点读．Read ( a bit ) slower.

22.肃静，你们最好不要在课堂上说话．Be quiet./ Keep silent. You’d better not talk in class.

23.管好自已的事/ 别管闲事．Mind your own business. 24.不要朝窗外看．Don’t look out of the window.