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惊呆英语冷知识
1.单词「stressed（压力）」反过来拼就是「dessert（甜点）」。（所以有压力就吃甜点吧。）
2.The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
2.单词「listen（倾听）」和「silent（安静）」包含的字母一模一样。
3."Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
3.单词「goodbye」来自于「God bye」，意思是「愿上帝和你在一起」。
4.TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
4.单词「typewriter」是只用键盘第一排打出来的最长的单词。
5."Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
5.单词「stewardess（女乘务员）」是键盘上只用左右打出来的最长的单词。
6.Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
6.莎士比亚发明了1700个我们至今还在使用的单词。
7.The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
7.英语单词「mile（英里）」来自于拉丁语的数字1000，而1英里是普通罗马人走1000步的距离。
8.The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
8.单词「gorilla（猩猩）」来自于希腊语，意思是「一群长满毛发的女人」。
9.There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
9.英语中仅有四个单词是以 "dous" 结尾的：tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous。
10.Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
10.单词「Floccinaucinihilipilification（轻蔑）」，意思是对某件事物表示不屑，是非医学英语术语里最长的。
11.In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
11.英语里，「火鸡」被翻译为「turkey」；而在土耳其语里，「火鸡」被称为「Hindi（印度的）」；在印度，被称为「秘鲁」；在阿拉伯语里，被成为「希腊鸡」；在希腊，被称为「法国鸡」；在法国，又被成为「印度鸡」。然而，火鸡都不起源于这些国家。
12.The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew).
12.要表达「对一样事情一窍不通」：英国人说「这简直是希腊语」；德国人说「这简直是西班牙语」；荷兰人说「这简直是中文。」；菲律宾人说「这简直是德语」；芬兰人说「这简直是讲希伯来语」；希伯来人说「这简直是中文」。
13.The Chief Translator for the European Parliament can speak 32 different languages fluently.
13.欧洲议会的首席翻译可以流利说32种语言。
14.Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
14.德语曾经是美国使用第二广泛的语言，包括许多地方政府，学校，以及总部在德国的报刊，直到一战时德语在美国收到限制。
15.Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
15.利用外语思考而做出的决定会更理智。
16.The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
16.联合国的6种官方语言：阿拉伯语，中文，英语，法语，俄罗斯语，西班牙语。
17.There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
17.如今全时间总共有41806种语言。