英语谜语、脑筋急转弯

1 A little boy asked his father: Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?The father replied: I don 't know son. I 'm still paying!!一个小男孩问他的爸爸，结婚要花多少钱？爸爸说：我不知道，因为我仍然在付帐。

2 A Sunday school teacher was telling her pupils the importance of making others glad. "Now, children," said she , "has anyone of you ever make someone else glad?"

"Please, teacher,"said a small boy,"I've make someone glad yesterday."

"Well done. Who was that?"

"My granny."

"Good boy. Now tell us how you made your grandmother glad."

"Please, teacher, I went to see her yesterday, and stayed with her three hours. Then I said to her, 'Granny, I'm going home,' and she said, 'Well, I'm glad'!"

一个主日学校校(基督教教会为了向儿童灌输宗教思想, 在星期天开办的儿童班)的老师在对学生讲使别人高兴的重要性。“现在，孩子们，”她说：“你们当中有谁让别人高兴过？”

“我，老师，”一个小男孩说：“昨天我就使别人高兴过。”

“做得好，是谁呢？”

“我奶奶。”

“好孩子。现在告诉我们，你是怎样使你奶奶高兴的。”

“是这样的，老师。我昨天去看她，在她那儿呆了三个小时。然后我跟她说：‘奶奶，我要回家了。’她说：‘啊，我很高兴！

3 Dick was seven years old, and his sister, Catherine, was five. One day their mother took them to their aunt's house to play while she went to the big city to buy some new clothes.

The children played for an hour, and then at half past four their aunt took Dick into the kitchen. She gave him a nice cake and a knife and said to him, "Now here's a knife, Dick. Cut this cake in half and give one of the pieces to your sister, but remember to do it like a gentleman."

"Like a gentleman?" Dick asked. "How do gentlemen do it?"

"They always give the bigger piece to the other person." answered his aunt at once.

"Oh" said Dick. He thought about this for a few seconds. Then he took the cake to his sister and said to her,"Cut this cake in half, Catherine.".

迪克年龄七岁，他的妹妹凯瑟琳五岁。一天，妈妈把他们带到姨妈家去玩，自己就到大城市去买些新的衣服。

孩子们玩了个把小时，在四点半的时候，姨妈领着迪克走进了厨房。她交给迪克一块精美的蛋糕和一把刀子，并对他说：“喏，迪克，给你刀子，把这块蛋糕一切为二，给你妹妹一块。不过，你得记住要做得像一个绅士那样。”

迪克问：“像一个绅士？绅士怎样做呢？”

他姨妈马上回答说：“绅士总是把大的一块让给别人的。”

迪克说了一声“噢”。他对此想了一会，然后，他把蛋糕拿给妹妹，并对她说：“凯瑟琳，你来把这块蛋糕一切为二吧。”

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

1、Where can a dog get another tail?
2、There are 2 ducks in front of 2 other ducks.There are 2 ducks behind 2 other ducks.There are 2 ducks beside 2 other ducks.How many ducks are there?
3、What animal has no wings yet will fly?
4、Why are dogs afraid t sunbath?
5、What's the longest word in the world?
6、Why is the pig always eating?
7、Why does time fly?
8、Why are giraffes the cheapest to feed? 回答1'at the retail store在零售商店
2'4两排，每排两个
3'还没想到
4'They don't want to be hot-dog.因为它们不想成为热狗。
5'Smiles. Because there's a mile between the letter 's'. 微笑。因为两个字母S中间隔了一里。
6'He's making a hog of himself. 它想成为一只肉猪。
7'To get away from all those who are trying to kill it.为的是甩掉所有要谋杀它的人。
8'They make a little food go a long way. 因为它们脖子长，一点点食物都要走很长的路才能咽下去。