湖南长沙市芙蓉区育才学校 王科文 译注
1.What gets bigger the more you take away?
什么东西取走得越多变得越大?
2.What belongs to you but is used more by others?
什么东西属于你,却被别人用得多?
3.What comes once in a minute,twice in a moment,and never in a thousand years?
什么东西在一分钟内出现一次,在一瞬间出现两次,在一千年内却从来不出现?
4.What is always coming to us but never arrives?
什么总是向我们走来,但永远到达不了?
5.What travels around the world but stays in one corner?
什么东西环游世界,却只待在一个角落里?
6.Mary’s father has 5 daughters—Nana,Nene,Nini,Nono.What is the fifth daughter’s name?
玛丽的父亲有5 个女儿——娜娜、内妮、妮妮和诺诺。第五个女儿叫什么名字?
7.A man was driving a black truck.His lights were not on.The moon was not out.A lady was crossing the street.How did the man see her?
一个男人正在开一辆黑色卡车。他没有打开车灯,月亮也没出来。一名女士正在过马路。那个男人是怎么看见她的?
8.What can a child make but no one can see?
什么东西是孩子做出的却没人能看得见?
9.Everyone has it and no one can lose it.What is it?
每个人都有它,没有人能丢掉它。它是什么?
10.What has to be broken before you can use it?
什么东西必须打破才能用?
11.What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
什么单词后面加上两个字母会变得更短?
12.What goes up and doesn’t come back down?
什么东西只升不降?
13.Where can you find an ocean with no water?
你在哪里可以找到没有水的海洋?
14.What is white when dirty and black when clean?
什么东西脏的时候是白色的,干净的时候是黑色的?
15.What becomes smaller when you turn it upside down?
什么东西当你把它倒过来时,它会变小?
注:
1.当人们挖坑时,从坑里取走的泥沙越来越多,坑就会变得越来越大。所以,谜底是“A hole.”。
2.我们自己的名字,多数时候是被别人叫的,自己反而用得比较少。
3.要想揭开谜底,关键在于读懂其谜面。谜面“minute”这个单词中字母“m”出现了一次,而“moment”这个单词中字母“m”出现了两次,但是,在“thousand years”这两个单词中字母“m”却一次也没有出现。
4.众所周知,“邮票”(stamp)是跟随着信件的,信件到了什么地方,邮票就到了什么地方,因为邮票就粘在信封上面。但是,邮票所占的位置却仅仅是信封上的一个“角落”(corner)。
5.单词“short”本身就表示“短”的意思,在其词尾加上“er”两个字母后就变成了“shorter”,而“shorter”的意思是“更短”。
6.没有水的海洋不存在。那么,怎么才能发现没有水的海洋呢?这确实是一个脑筋急转弯。只有“地图上”(on a map)的河流、湖泊、海洋上的水是看不见的。因此,我们还可以仿照这个谜面来创作谜语,如:“Where can you find a lake without water?” 或“Where can you find a city/town/village without buildings?”等。
7.数字“9”倒过来就成了数字“6”。所以,数字“9”一旦倒过来就变小了。其实,我们还可以把这个谜语改变一下,猜 一 猜——“What becomes larger when you turn it upside down?”。
(参考答案见本期第34 页)
Keys toComplete the Sentences
I.1.horses; white; faster 2.students; boy; left; right; shorter 3.jackets; yellow; blue; yellow 4.basketball; volleyball; football; volleyball 5.Maths; Music; Art; Art; Music
II.1.a; an 2.is; are 3.am; is 4.is 5.Are; are 6.buses 7.has; are 8.on 9.faster 10.older