世界上最长的单词是哪个并且是什么意思你知道吗?
世界上最长的单词是哪个,又是什么意思你知道吗? 中国说英语的人要比美国人还多你知道吗?使用最多的一个英语单词是哪个你知道吗? 下面就让我们来了解一下14个关于英语非常有趣的事情吧。
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A new word is added to the dictionary every two hours. That means that around 4,000 new words are added to the English dictionary every single year!
每两小时就有一个新单词录入到英语字典中,这就意味着每年约有4000个新单词录入到英语字典中。
More people in the world have learned English as their second language than there are native English speakers.
世界上学习英语做为第二语言的人比母语是英语的人还多。
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” is not the longest word in English but “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” is!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious(超能力主义)不是世界上最长的单词,pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis(肺部显微显微镜术)这个单词才是。
English is the language of the air. Every pilot has to know English because everything that’s happening in the sky is in English.
英语是广播的语言。每个飞行员都必须懂英语,因为空中发生的一切都是用英语表达。
The average English speaker knows between 20,000 and 30,000 words.
普通说英语的人掌握的单词约20,000至30,000个。
Do you know what’s the most used word in English? It’s the word “I”.
你知道使用最多的英语单词是哪个吗? 是“I”
I don’t know how useful it is but if you write down all the numbers as words (e.g. one, two, three…), you would not use the letter “b” until the word “billion”.
我不知道这有什么用处,但是如果你将所有的英语数据写出来(例如,one, two, three…),那么在写到“billion”这个数字之前你都不会用到字母“b”
The word “good” has over 380 synonyms in English which makes it a word that has the most synonyms.
“good”这个单词在英语中有380个同义词,因此”good”是英语中同义词最多的单词。
After the American Revolution, people in America decided to make a language different from the British. They thought that British English had too many things that are not necessary, for example, the British “colour” transformed into American “color”.
美国独立战争后,美国人决定使用一种不同于英国英语的语言。 他们认为英式英语有太多不必要的东西,例如,英式英语的“colour”转变为美式英语的“color”。
The word “queue” sounds the same even if the last four letters are removed.
单词”queue”即使将最后4个字母删掉,那么发音依然不会改变。
The word “synonym” is one of the few words in the English language that doesn’t have a synonym.
“synonym”(同义词)这个单词是英语中没有同义词的少数几个词之一。
When we want to say “the day after tomorrow”, we say “the day after tomorrow”. But there’s actually a word, one word for it which is “overmorrow”.
当我们想说”the day after tomorrow”(后天)时,我们会说”the day after tomorrow”,而实际上英语中有一个词就是后天的意思”overmorrow”
Did you know that Shakespeare added over a thousand new words to the English language when he was writing his masterpieces?
你知道莎士比亚在撰写他的杰作时为英语增加了上千个单词吗?
There are words in the English language that don’t have a meaning and they actually have a special term, they are called “ghost words”. They appeared because somebody made a typo when they were working on the dictionary.
英语中有些单词没有实际意义,它们有一个专业术语被称作”ghost words”. 它们之所以会出现是因为有人在编辑字典时打错了字。
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