英文小趣事，來增加你的飯后談資吧

Accordig to a rseearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltete.

你是否能流暢地讀完這句話呢？讀完后有木有發(fā)現(xiàn)什么不一樣的地方？

仔細看看，句子中單詞的拼寫大多是錯誤的，可我們還是理解了句子要表達的意思，是不是覺得很神奇？

小編接下來就來跟大家分享一些英文中的小趣事（期待不？ヾ(o?∀?)?ヾ）

1. 曾經(jīng)，英國人不會說英語?。?！

For more than a century, the English aristocracy couldn't speak English. William, the Conqueror tried to learn English at the age of 43 but gave up. Within 20 years of the Normans taking power in England, almost all of the local religious institutions were French-speaking. There is little to suggest that aristocrats themselves spoke English. It isn't until the end of the 12th Century that we have evidence of the children of the English aristocracy with English as a first language.

有一個世紀多的時間，英國貴族不會說英語。英國國王威廉一世曾在43歲時嘗試學習英語，但半途而廢。諾曼人控制英國的20年里，大部分的地方宗教機構(gòu)都說法語。鮮有證據(jù)顯示英國的貴族自己會說英語。證據(jù)顯示，直到12世紀末，才有英國貴族子女以英語為第一語言。

2. 英語和美語的差異因一人而起。

One man is largely responsible for the differences between American and British spelling. Noah Webster, whose name you still find on the front of many American dictionaries, was a patriotic man. Between 1783 and 1785, he produced three books about the English language for American school children. During his lifetime, 385 editions of his Speller were published. The modern US spelling of color was initially spelt in the British way, colour, but this changed in later editions.

美式英語和英式英語拼寫上的差異很大程度上因一人而起。在美國的許多詞典封面上你還能找到一個人的名字，一位富有愛國心的美國人——諾亞·韋伯斯特。在1783至1785年間，韋伯斯特為美國的學齡兒童創(chuàng)作了三本關于英語的書籍。韋伯斯特一生中，其拼寫教材出了385版?，F(xiàn)代美式英語中“color(顏色)”一詞起初是英式的拼寫方式，但在后來的版本中，這些詞的拼寫方式發(fā)生了變化。

3. 你知道英語中最長的單詞嗎？

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!

英語中最長的單詞是“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses”(硅酸鹽沉著病)!

數(shù)數(shù)這一個單詞中包含了多少個英文字母？

4. 洋蔥竟來源于大珍珠？

The onion is named after the Latin word"unio"meaning large pearl.

單詞"onion"(洋蔥)來自于拉丁詞"unio", 意思是大珍珠。

5. 英語單詞何時快速增加？

The Renaissance, which started in Italy and reached England via France, was a massive source of new vocabulary. New ideas, or old ideas rediscovered, started flooding out of the southern cities but there were no words to describe them in English. So the language adopted or adapted the Latin words. During the Renaissance, the English lexicon roughly doubled in size.

起源于意大利，席卷法國再蔓延至英國的文藝復習帶來了海量新詞。新的點子也好，舊的想法也罷，被人們重新發(fā)現(xiàn)，不斷從南部的意大利城市中奔涌而出，而英語中卻沒有相應詞匯用以描述。于是英語就采用、改寫了拉丁詞匯。文藝復興時期，英語的詞匯幾乎翻了一倍。

每天抱怨著英語單詞難背的小伙伴們，也能找到抱怨的源頭了吧~~

看完了小編的介紹，各位看官有啥感想？是不是對英語又充滿了好奇？那就學起來吧！