1.英语单词成千上万，但只有“bookkeeper”(记账人)是具有连续3个双字母排列的单词。

2.英语中有6个元音字母a.e.i.o.u.y(半元音)，但“defenselessness”(无防备)和“respectlessness”(不尊重)却是最长的只含有一个元音字母的两个单词，那就是元音字母e，并且这两个单词都有15个字母。

3.“almost”(几乎)是唯一一个几个字母按字母表顺序排列的常用单词。

4.“honorificabilitudinitatibus”是最长的按一个辅音字母跟一个元音字母的顺序排列的单词，共有27个字母。这个单词出现在大文豪莎士比亚的剧本《空爱一场》里，意思是“不胜光荣”。

5.在牛津音域大词典中，“antidisestablishmentarianism”反对教会与国家分开学说)曾经本认为是最长的单词，但被译为“硅酸盐沉着病”的医学术语"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis"现在则被认为是最长的单词，到底有多少个字母，自己数一数吧，只是读起来会很费劲。

6.在英语中，只有一个普通单词的5个元音字母排在一起，它就是“queueing”(排队)。

7.据说，“The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.”(第六个患病的酋长的第六只羊患病了。)是英语中最难发音的绕口令。

8.“stewardesses”(女乘务员)是最长的只用左手就能在电脑键盘上打出来的单词。

9.“therein”(在那里)只有7个字母，但却能在不改变字母顺序的情况下拆出另外12个单词来，它们分别是：the,he,her,er,here,i,there,ere,rein,re,in和herein。

10.用英语从1数到999也见不到字母a,只有到了1000(one thousand)才出现a的影子

When Do People Talk Least?

Student A: When do people talk least?

Student B: In February.

Student A: Why?

Student B: Because February is the shortest month of a year.

人们什么时候说话最少?

学生甲：人们在什么时候说话最少?

学生乙：在二月。

学生甲：为什么呢?

学生乙：因为二月是一年中最短的一个月。

Good News And Bad News(英汉对照)

"There's good news and bad news," the divorce lawyer told his client.

"I could sure use some good news," sighed the client. "What's it?"

"Your wife isn't demanding that your future inheritances be included in the settlement."

"And the bad news?"

"After the divorce, she's marrying your father."

好消息和坏消息

“有好消息，也有坏消息，”离婚律师告诉他的当事人。

“我总能利用一些好消息吧，”当事人吧了口气说，“是什么好消息?”

“你妻子没有要求将你未来的继承财产也划入裁决的范围。”

“那么坏消息呢?”

“离婚以后，她将与你父亲结婚。”

Camera(英汉对照)

On our way to a wedding in Vermont, my husband and I realized we had forgotten our camera. We stopped at a general store and, hoping to purchase a cheap, disposable model. Sal asked the owner, "Do you have any of those throwaway cameras?"

"Look, fella," replied the owner, "I don't care what you do with it after you buy it."

照 相 机

在前往威蒙特参加一个婚礼的路上，我和丈夫意识到我们忘了带照相机。我们在一家百货商店门前停了下来，希望能够买到一种便宜的，一次性照相机。萨尔问店主：“你们有那种用了就扔的照相机吗?”

“我说，小伙子，”店主回答说，“我可不管你买了之后怎么处理它。”

The boy and the snails

A farmer's boy went looking for snails, and, when he had picked up both his hands full, he set about making a fire at which to roast them; for he meant to eat them. When it got well alight and the snails began to feel the heat, they gradually withdrew more and more into their shells with the hissing noise they always make when they do so. When the boy heard it, he said, "You abandoned creatures, how can you find heart to whistle when your houses are burning?"

下面几篇有趣的笑话，让人忍俊不禁。不妨讲给你的朋友们听，让他们也分享这小小的快乐，且又锻炼了英语表达能力，可谓一举多得。

“Good-bye, Money.”

On a trip to Disney once we were.

World in Florida, my husband and I and our two children devoted ourselves wholeheartedly to the wonders of this attraction. After three exhausting days, we

headed for home.

As we drove away, our son waved and said, “Good-bye, Mickey.”

Our daughter waved and said, “Good-bye, Minnie.”

My husband waved, rather weakly, and said, “Good-bye, Money.”

A man was telling one of his friends the secret of his contented married life, "My wife makes all the small decisions," he explained, "and I make all the big ones, so we never interfere in each other's business and never get annoyed with each other. We have no complaints and no arguments."

"That sounds reasonable," answered his friend sympathetically. "And what sort of decisions does your wife make?"

"Well," answered the man, "she decides what jobs I apply for, what sort of house we live in, what furniture we have, where we go for our holidays, and things like that."

His friend was surprised. "Oh?" he said. "And what do you consider important decisions then?"

"Well," answered the man, "I decide who should be Prime Minister, whether we should increase our help to poor countries, what we should do about the atom bomb, and things like that."

一个男人告诉他的朋友自己婚姻幸福美满的秘密，“小事都由我妻子决定，”他解释说：“而我只管大事，我们从不互相干涉，从不生对方的气。我们从来没有抱怨、没有争吵。”

“听起来很有道理，”他的朋友深有同感，“有哪些事情由你妻子作决定呢?”

“嗯，”那个人回答说：“她决定我申请什么工作，我们住什么房子，买什么家具，去哪里度假这些事情。”

他的朋友很惊奇的问道：“哦?那么你决定哪些重要事情?”

“嗯，”他回答：“我决定谁来当首相，我们是否要增加对贫困国家的援助，怎么处理原子弹等等这些问题。”

At an exhibition of the world's best swordsman, the third-place fencer took the stage. A fly was released, and with an arc of his sword he cut the fly in half. The crowd cheered. Then the second-place man sliced a fly into quarters. A hush fell in anticipation of the world's greatest swordsman.

在一场世界最佳击剑手表演中，排名第三的击剑手上场了。一只苍蝇放了出来，剑划了一个弧，他将苍蝇劈成了两半。观众欢呼起来。紧接着排名第二的人将一只苍蝇切成了四半。现场一阵沉默，人们期盼着世界上最伟大的击剑手出场。

His blade came down in a mighty arc - but the insect continued on its way! The crowd was aghast. The greatest swordsman had missed his target completely, yet he continued to smile.

他的剑锋以一个巨大的弧线划了下来--然而那只昆虫还在继续飞行!观众被惊呆了。最伟大的击剑手完全错过了他的目标，然而他还在微笑着。

Why are you so happy? someone yelled. You missed!

你为什么这么高兴?有人嚷道，你没击中!

Ah, replied the swordsman, you weren't watching very carefully. They fly lives, yes - but he will never be a father.

啊，剑手答道，你刚才没有很仔细地看。苍蝇还活着，是的--但他永远也做不成爸爸了。

A guy is reading his paper when his wife walks up behind him and smacks him on the back of the head with a frying pan.

一个家伙正在看报纸，他的妻子走到他身后，用一只煎锅敲他的后脑勺。

He asks, What was that for?

他问道：这是为什么?

She says, I found a piece of paper in your pocket with 'Betty Sue' written on it.

她说：我在你口袋里发现了一张写有‘Betty Sue’的纸条。

He says, Jeez, honey, 'Betty Sue' was the name of the horse I bet on. She shrugs and walks away.

他说：哎呀，亲爱的，‘Betty Sue’是我赌的那匹马的名字。

Three days later he's reading his paper when she walks up behind him and smacks him on the back of the head again with the frying pan.

她耸了耸肩，走了。 三天后他正在看报纸，妻子走到他身后，又用一只煎锅敲他的后脑勺。

He asks, What was that for?

他问：这又是为什么?

She answers, Your horse called.

她答道：你的马打电话来了。

A gentleman walks into a store and asked for a pair of gloves.

″Cloth or leather﹖″ asked the salesperson.

″Makes no difference? ″replied customer.

″What color﹖″ asked the clerk.

一位先生走进一家商店要买副手套。

“您是要布的还是皮的?”售货员问。

“没什么区别。”这位顾客回答。

“那您要什么颜色的呢?”售货员又问。

″Any?″ he responded.

″Size﹖″

″Give me whatever you prefer?″ the gentleman said? slightly exasperated. ″My wife will be back tomorrow to exchange them.″

“什么颜色都成。”他回答。

“号码呢?”

“您就随便给我拿一副吧，”这位顾客有点不耐烦了，“反正我太太明天都会来换的。”

An old couple went into a restaurant and ordered something to eat: one Coca Cola and one portion of French fries. The old man sat down and the woman, his wife, sat opposite him, and he began to divide the Coca Cola into two glasses, half for him and half for his wife.

有一对老夫妇到速食店去，叫了一罐可乐和一份薯条。然后他们面对面坐下来，那位老先生先把可乐分成两杯，一杯给他自己，另一杯给他太太。

He divided all the French fries half-and-half. He gave half to his wife and kept half for himself. Then he began to eat and drink,and the woman just drank but didn't eat.

接着他又将薯条分成两份，一份给他太太、一份给自己。然后他开始吃薯条、喝可乐，但是他的太太只是喝可乐，不吃薯条。

There was a young man who was standing next to the table and wondering why the old man had divided everything in half, and he thought that maybe they didn't have any money. He said to the old couple, "Okay, I can buy you one more portion; you don't have to share like that."

一个年轻人刚好站在旁边，看到老先生把每样食物都分成两半，觉得很奇怪，他想或许他们没有钱，便跟老夫妇说：‘我可以再买一份给你们，你们就不用这样分了。’

So the old man explained, "No, no, no, we have been married for forty years and we always share everything. Whatever we have, we share half and half. Don't worry, but thank you, anyhow."

老先生解释说：‘不、不!我们结婚四十年了，一直都是分享每件事物，什么东西都是一个人分一半。不用担心我们，不过还是谢谢你的好意。

But then after a while, he saw that the woman wasn't eating eat, and only the man ate, and he asked, "Why aren't you eating?" And the wife said, "Today it's his turn to use the teeth."

过了一会儿，他看只有老先生吃着薯条，老太太没吃，便问老太太：‘你为什么都不吃呢?’老太太说：‘今天轮到他用牙齿。’

A peddler sold earthen basins in the wayside, he chanted as knocked:" Earthen basin is round, beautiful and solid, judging by the sound, they are all good." At the time of his knocking, that earthen basin was broken into pieces with a crack.

一个小贩在路边卖瓦盆，他一边敲一边唱：“瓦盆圆又圆，结实又好看，光听这声音，就知不一般。”敲着敲着，“啪啦”一声，把盆敲烂了。

Lookers-on burst into the roars of laughter. He threw the fragments without extra trouble into paddy fiel(稻田) , but an experienced peasant from the crowd did not let him off easily:" How the deuce can you throw them into my field? They'll impede(阻碍) my growing crops!"

围观的人一阵哄笑。他顺手把碎片扔进了稻田里，谁知人群中一个老农不干了：“你怎么能往我地里扔?这不影响我种田吗?”

The peddler who sold earthen basins tried to explain it away promptly:" Nothing, the fragments will be converted into powder as soon as they absorbed water ."

卖瓦盆的小贩连忙辩解：“不要紧，瓦片见水一会儿就粉了。”

Bogota, Colombia - Police in the northeastern Colombian city of Arauca said Tuesday that they had detained a donkey named Pacho after a motorcyclist crashed into the animal and suffered serious injuries. "When there are road accidents and serious injuries, the vehicles involved are always impounded," said Diana Rojas, spokeswoman for the Arauca city police department. "We had to impound both the donkey and the motorcycle and put them at the disposal of investigators so they can decide what to do with them and whether to release them," she said.

哥伦比亚首都波哥大市：周二，哥伦比亚东北部阿劳卡市的警方说，一个骑摩托车的人撞上了一头驴子而且受了重伤，他们已拘留了这头名叫帕奇欧的驴子。“当发生交通事故并有人受重伤时，事故所涉及车辆都要被扣留，”阿劳卡市警方的女发言人狄阿娜-罗哈斯说道，“我们不得不把驴子和摩托车都扣了，将它们交给调查人员处理，以便他们可以决定如何处置以及是否释放它们。”

Pacho’s owner, Nelson Gonz lez, said no one should blame the donkey for Sunday’s crash. "Neither the donkey nor I were responsible because I was in front and the motorcyclist saw me," Gonzalez told RCN television.

帕奇欧的主人纳尔逊-岗萨雷兹说，不该把上周日发生的碰撞事故归咎于那头驴子。“驴子和我都没有责任，因为我当时是在前面，摩托车手看见我了。”岗萨雷兹对RCN电视台的记者说。

The motorcyclist remained in the hospital on Tuesday. The donkey, whose legs were hurt in the crash, is being held at a pound in Arauca till the investigation is concluded.

摩托车手周二时还在医院里，而那头驴子的腿在事故中也受了伤，目前它被关在阿劳卡市的动物待领所，直到调查结束它才能被放出来。

英语笑话是指以一句英文短语或一个英文故事让说话者和听者之间觉得好笑,或是产生幽默感,笑话是一种经过艺术加工的语言形式,是艺术化的语言。下面是读文网小编整理的英语笑话大全，欢迎大家阅读!

1、The New Teacher

George comes from school on the first of September.

George, how did you like your new teacher? asked his mother.

I didn't like her, Mother, because she said that three and three were six and then she said that two and four were six too.....

新老师

9月1日， 乔治放学回到家里。

乔治，你喜欢你们的新老师吗? 妈妈问。

妈妈，我不喜欢，因为她说3加3得6, 可后来又说2加4也得6。

下面是读文网小编整理的英语笑话大全，欢迎大家阅读!

英语笑话五：奇猜异想

Our physics professor was struggling to draw the class into discussion of Archimede's principle of water displacement. He told us that Archimede noticed that when he got into a pool at the public bathhouse, the water rose spilling over the edge. Excited at his discovery, he ran down the street yelling, "Eureka, eureka!" The instructor asked if anyone knew what that meant.

One student stood up and answered, "I'm naked ! I'm naked!"

我们的物理教授千方百计引导我们讨论阿基米德的排水原理。他告诉我们阿基米德去公共浴池洗澡，他进入池子，发现水涨高了，溢出池沿。他对这一发现十分激动，跑到街上高叫：“Eureka，Eureka!”教授问我们谁知道他喊的是什么意思。

一个学生站起来答道：“我光屁股啦，我光屁股啦!”

下面是读文网小编整理的英语笑话五篇，欢迎大家阅读!

英语笑话二：相亲

After being with her all evening, the man couldn't take another minute with his blind date. Earlier, he had secretly arranged to have a friend call him to the phone so he would have an excuse to leave.When he returned to the table, he lowered his eyes, put on a grim expression and said, "I have some bad news. My grandfather just died.""Thank heavens," his date replied. "If yours hadn't, mine would have had to!"

和盲约对象呆了一晚上后，男人再也受不了了。他事先安排了个朋友给他打电话，这样他就能借故先离开了。当他回到桌边，他垂下眼睛，装出一副阴沉的表情，说：“有个不幸的消息，我的祖父刚刚去世了。”“谢天谢地!”他的约会对象说，“如果你的祖父不死，我的祖父就得死了!”

考研英语2024备考复习技巧

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考研英语二考试时间分配

1、考研英语二的总考试时长是180分钟。

2、第一部分的20个选择题，可以安排20分钟。

3、第二部分的A节安排75分钟，B节安排25分钟。预计总时长是100分钟。

4、第三部分的英译汉，安排20分钟。

5、第四部分的Part A安排15分钟，Part B安排25分钟。预计总时长是40分钟。

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考研考点怎么分配

考研的考场分配根据考生的所在地以及报考学校等进行安排，在职人员考研时，考场一般都会分配在户籍所在地或工作单位所在地。

考研报考同一学校的考生理论上是分配在一个考点，甚至是同一考场的。考研报考同一学校的相同专业和不同专业是一起考试的。因为考研的考点、考场分配是实行统一管理，采取统一分配的原则，便于管理。

考研考场还有另外的分配方法，是划分考研的考场、考点时先按照各省、各市进行统一划分，然后是按照学校进行划分，再次是按照专业进行划分。

总之就是考研考场怎么分配对于考生的影响不大，考生只需要按照准考证所指示的前往指定考点进行考试即可，并且携带相关证件。