一个简单的英语谜语

一个简单的英语谜语

经典英语谜语(一)

1.What month do soldiers hate?

--March (三月，行军)

2.How many feet are there in a yard?

--It depends on how many people stand in the yard. (码，院子)

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，安康的)

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”

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

19. Where can you always find money?

--In the dictionary

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

--Fold it.

21. Where does afternoon e 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 b

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

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

36．What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? -- blackboard

37. What has a round face and two thin hands, one hand short, one hand long?

-- a clock

38. What is big and bright during the day and we can’t see it at night? -- the sun

39. I am small. I can fly. I like singing in the sky. What am I? -- a bird

40. Which letter is a drink?

--T(tea)

41. Which letter is around an island?

-- C(sea)

42. Which letter is an animal?

43. Which letter is a kind of vegetable?

-- P(pea)

44. Which is the longest English word? Why?

-- smiles(There’s a mile between the first and the last letter.)

45. Which letter is a question?

-- Y(why)

46. Which letter is a part of your face?

-- I(eye)

47. I am very big and heavy. I have a long nose and big ears. What am I ? -- an elephant

48. I am the tallest animal in the world. What am I ?

-- a giraffe

49. I live in the sea. I am the biggest animal in the sea. What am I ? -- the whale

50. What do you call your father’s father’s only son?

-- father/daddy

51. What is the biggest ant in the world?

-- an elephant

52. What is in the middle of the world?

-- the letter “r”

53. What do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law? -- mom

54. What is the smallest room in the world?

-- mushroom

55. Teachers write on me with ch alk. I can’t talk. What am

I ? -- a blackboard

56. You have it. You read it. There are some words and pictures on it. What is it?

--.a book

57. Sometimes it looks like a boat. Sometimes it looks like

a small white sun. What is it?

--moon

58. You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

-- chicken

59. What goes around the world but stays in a corner?

-- stamp

60. Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?

-- fire

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

62. I fly, but I have no wings. I cry, but I have no eyes. -- cloud

63. How many letters are in the alphabet?

-- eight

64. I am always with you. Sometimes behind you, sometimes before you, sometimes by your side, but you can’t see me in the dark.

-- shadow

65. What table is in the field?

-- vegetable

66. What table can tell you what to do?

-- timetable

67.What changes a pear into a pearl?

-- “L”

68. What letter makes a road broad?

-- “b”

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

-- the moon

70. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?

--. a map

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

-- hot dog

72. I am everywhere in the earth. Without me, you have to die. What am I ?

-- air

73. I can’t walk. I can’t fly. I can swim. What am I ? -- fish

74. I am green in spring and yellow in autumn. Birds like me and people like me. What am I ?

-- a tree

75. Chicken grows from it. What is it?

-- an egg

76. It’s very small in the sky, but it’s actually very big. What is it? -- a star/ the sun/ the moon

77. It’s a colourful bridge in the sky. What is it?

-- a rainbow

78. Why do lions eat raw meat(生肉)？

-- Because they can’t cook.

79. Why is six afraid of seven?

-- Because seven eight(ate) nine.

80. A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible? -- Because all of her children are boys.

81. I am white. You can drink me. I am in the dairy group. What am I ?

82. I am green or red. I am spicy and hot. I am in the vegetable group. What am I ?

-- pepper

83. I am a kind of fruit, green outside and red inside. What am I ? -- a watermelon

84. I am a kind of fruit, yellow outside and white inside with small black seeds. What am I ?

-- a banana

85. I am orange. I am thin and long. Rabbits like me very much. What am I ?

-- a carrot

86. David was out for a walk when it started to rain. He did not have an umbrella and he wasn't wearing a hat. His clothes were soaked, yet not a single hair on his head got wet. How could this happen?

-- Because he’s bald.

87. My fatherland is Arabia,

Though in England they roast me brown.

I'm ground up inside a mill,

And tortured with scalding water,

And then they pour milk over me,

And drink me at their leisure.

谜底是“Coffee”。

88. The beginning of eternity,

The end of time and space.

The beginning of every end,

And the end of every place.

将句中提到的单词“eternity, time, space, end, place”按照字面意思进展拆分，即可得到谜底：“The letter E”。

89. What goes up and never goes down？

谜底是“Age”。年龄是永远向上增长，不可能下降的。

经典英语谜语(二)

I. 字谜：

1) There is a thing that is the first to pity and the last to help.

2)I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me;

yet I am in the midst of crosses.

I am always in risk, yet never in danger.

You may find me in the sun,

but I am never out of darkness.

3) My first is nothing but a name;

My second still more small;

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.

1. What will you break once you say it? (什么东西一说出来就

打破？)

2. Will liars be honest after they die? (骗子死了之后会老实吗？)

3. What always goes up and never goes down? (什么东西只升不降？)

4. Why did the boy make his dog sit in the sun? (男孩为什么

让他的狗坐在阳光下？)

5. Why can a bride hide nothing?(为什么新娘子什么也藏不住？)

6. Why is the library the highest building?(为什么图书馆是最高的建筑物？)

7. What is the smallest bridge in the world? (世界上最小的桥梁是什么？)

8. What is the difference between the North Pole and the South Pole? (北极与南极的区别是什么？)

9. What makes naughty boys long to work in a clock factory? (淘气的男孩为什么想去钟表厂工作？)

10. What bird lifts heavy things? (什么鸟能举起重物？)

11. A ship can contain only fifty persons. Now there is alreadyforty-nine person in it. At this time,a pregnant woman es on andboards the ship. The

shipsinks. Why? (有一艘船只能容纳50人，现在已有49人。这时一位孕妇上了船，船就沉了。为什么？)

12. What's the poorest bank in the world? (世界的最的银行是什么？)

13. What month do soldiers hate?(军人憎恨什么月？)

：

1. Silence. (沉默)

2. No, they won’t. They lie still after they die。(不会，他们依旧撒谎。Lie still 躺着不动，依旧撒谎。)

3. Your age. (你的年龄)

4. He wants to have a hot dog. (他想要一条热狗。)

5. Because someone will give her away. (因为有人会揭露她。Give away 揭露，在婚礼上把新娘交给新郎)

6. It has the most stories. (它的楼层最多。Story 故事，楼层)

7. The bridge of a nose. (鼻梁)

8. A whole world. (整个世界。 a world of difference 天壤之别)

9. They want to make faces. (make face 做鬼脸，做钟外表)

10. Crane. (鹤。Crane鹤，举重机)

11. Because is a pigboat. (那是潜水艇。pigboat，潜水艇)

12.The river bank。(河岸。)

13.March。(行军。)