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英語單詞裏的小秘密

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

 英語裏由壹個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?.

 英語裏最有年頭的壹個詞是?town(城鎮)?。

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

 在英國19世紀80年代以前,說?pants(褲子)?這個詞都會被人家認為不禮貌。(褲子好命苦~)

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

 ?goodbye(再見)?這個詞其實是由?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?.

 牛津字典裏收錄的最長單詞是?pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis(矽酸鹽沈著病就是傳說中的矽肺病)?。而唯壹可以與其匹敵的就是這個詞的復數形式?pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokonioses?。(這麽長!!學醫的人傷不起啊!!)

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

 英語中含義最多的詞是?set?。(大家可以數壹數自己知道多少種哦~)

 ※ 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.

 在英語中有壹個由7個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)?這個詞就是?therein?。