有趣的英语小知识.ppt

《有趣的英语小知识.ppt》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《有趣的英语小知识.ppt（7页珍藏版）》请在淘文阁 - 分享文档赚钱的网站上搜索。

1、有趣的英语小知识有趣的英语小知识“Stewardesses”（空中小姐）is the longest word typed with only the left hand and“lollipop”（棒棒糖）with your right.No word in the English language rhymes with month,orange,silver,or purple.Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.The sentence:“The quick brown fox jumps over t

2、he lazy dog”uses every letter of the alphabet.The words racecar,kayak（皮艇）and level are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left(palindromes回文).There are only four words in the English language which end in“dous”:tremendous,horrendous,stupendous,and hazardous.There are two words

3、in the English language that have all five vowels in order:“abstemious”（节制的）and“facetious.”（轻浮的）TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.Maine（缅因州）is the only state whose name is just one syllable.All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the$5 bill.If you are an average American,in your whole life,you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.A“jiffy”（瞬间，一会）is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.The average persons left hand does 56%of the typing.