经典英语谜语

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，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”

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 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

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 chalk. 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”按照字面意思进行拆分，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 hel p.

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;

My whole of so much smaller fame,

It has no name at all.

4) If the English alphabet goes from A to Z, what goes from Z to A?

II.事物谜：

1) At night they come

Without being fetched,

And by day they are lost

Without being stolen.

2) As round as an apple,

As deep as a pail;

It never cries out,

Till it's caught by the tail.

3) My sides are firmly laced about,

Yet nothing is within;

You'll think my head is strange indeed,

Being nothing else but skin.

4) Over the water,

And under the water,

And never touch the water.

5) I never was, am always to be,

No one ever saw me, nor ever will

And yet I am the confidence of all

To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.

II. 智力谜:

1) Why are Saturdays and Sundays so strong?

2) swheresdo smart dogs refuse to shop?

3) Would you rather an elephant kill you, or a gorilla?

4) When do elephants have sixteen feet？

5) Which is faster, heat or cold?

6) What's every baby's motto?-

答案：

I.字谜：1) The letter P 2)The letter S 3)Nameless 4) Zebra

II.事物谜：

1)Stars 2)A bell 3)A drum 4)A girl crossing a bridge with a pail of w ater on her head. 5)Tomorrow

III.智力谜：

1)Because the rest are weekdays.提示：weekdays的意思是“工作日”，而week(星期)和weak(弱的)是一对同音异义词。

2)At flea markets.提示：flea market的意思是“跳蚤市场”(经营廉价古物、旧货等的露天市场)。谜底把flea market曲解为“跳蚤的市场”，聪明的狗可

不愿长跳蚤，自然不愿去有跳蚤的市场。

3)I'd rather he kill the gorilla.提示：谜面可以有两种解释。第一种是“你希望大象杀死你，还是大猩猩杀死你？”第二种解释是“你希望大象杀死你，还是杀死大猩猩？”

4)When there are four of them.提示：因为四只大象(four elephants)有十六条腿。

6) Heat. You can catch cold.提示：catch cold的意思是“患感冒”，字面意思是“抓住冷”，但是从来没人说catch heat。

6) If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again.提示：孩子的格言

If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again.(一次哭闹不成功，哭闹再哭闹)是模仿谚语If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.(一次不成功，努力再努力)杜撰而来