在网上找到以下这些很有意思的东西,贴上来大家一起看,也可以顺便测试一下自己的英语水平。如果有哪条看不懂的话,回复留言,我会解释。
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death. – 牛。
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes. – ……
A snail can sleep for three years.
All Polar bears are left-handed. – 右脑比较发达么?
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. – 怪不得胖啊。
An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. – 我还真不知道这个。
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten. – 没觉得。
Cat’s urine glows under a black light. -晕,还真没注意过。
China has more English speakers than the United States. – 这肯定的,人多力量大。
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants. – 无语
Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump. – 是么?
Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie. – 这里卡路里的概念深入人心。
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. – 晕。
I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.
If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. – 好吧。
If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will eventually turn white.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. – 怎么感觉我可以呢
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
No word in the English language rhymes with month.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the ’30s lobbied against hemp farmers, they saw it as competition.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. – 所以baby的眼睛看上去特别大。
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. – 还好我是右撇子。
Shakespeare invented the word “assassination” and “bump.”
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Starfish haven’t got brains.
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
The average human eats eight spiders in their lifetime at night. – 不是吧!!
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male’s head off.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The name Wendy was made up for the book “Peter Pan.”
The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language. – 这我知道。
The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. – 厄。。。没想到。。。
The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men. – 厄。。。也没想到。。。
You are more likely to be killed by a Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath. – 可以吧。。。
You share your birthday with at least nine million other people in the world. – 这正常,地球上多少人呢。
(Kindly Contributed by Lars Holenbeck) 以上内容由Lars Holenbeck提供。