偷偷告訴你：那些你不知道的英語單詞小秘密

※ The shortest complete sentence in the English language consists of only one word and that is “Go”.

英語里由一個(gè)單詞組成的最短的完整的句子就是“GO”。

※ The oldest word in the English language is “town”.

英語里最有年頭的一個(gè)詞是“town(城鎮(zhèn))”。

※ In England, till 1880s using the word “pants” was considered indecent.

在英國19世紀(jì)80年代以前，說“pants(褲子)”這個(gè)詞都會被人家認(rèn)為不禮貌。(褲子好命苦~)

※ The word “goodbye” came from “God bye”, which in turn comes from “God be with you”.

“goodbye(再見)”這個(gè)詞其實(shí)是由“God bye”演變而來，而“God bye”又演變自“God be with you”。

※ According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the longest word in the English language is “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis”. The only other word with so many letters is its plural, “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses”.

牛津字典里收錄的最長單詞是“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis(硅酸鹽沉著病就是傳說中的矽肺病)”。而唯一可以與其匹敵的就是這個(gè)詞的復(fù)數(shù)形式 “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses”。(這么長!!學(xué)醫(yī)的人傷不起啊!!)

※ The word with most number of definitions in the English language is “set”.

英語中含義最多的詞是“set”。(大家可以數(shù)一數(shù)自己知道多少種哦~)

※ There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, and that seven-letter word is, “therein”, which contains: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

在英語中有一個(gè)由7個(gè)字母組成的單詞可以被依次分解為“the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein(在其中), herein(在這方面)”這個(gè)詞就是“therein”。(乃是變形金剛咩!濃縮就是精華!!精華啊!!快記著!!)