英语谜语20则_英语谜语
中国人常说‘万事开头难’。不过,开始猜谜语可不能猜太难的,要不,你可就不肯往
下猜了。先猜猜下面这个容易的: 1. what table is in the field?
再猜猜这一个: 2. what is the only thing you can break when you say its
name?
若猜对了,请接着往下猜:
3. what is there in your house that ought to be looked into?
4. what is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never
existed and still has a name?
5. what changes a pear into a pearl?
6. what question can never be answered by 'yes'?
7. what ship has two mates but no captain?
8. what is the most difficult key to turn?
9. where can you always find money?
10. what is the surest way to double your money?
11. where does afternoon come before morning in the world?
12. what is the smallest bridge in the world?
13. what letter makes a road broad?
14. what letter sounds like a vegetable?
15. why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?
16. what match can't be put in a match-box?
17. when do 2 and 2 make more than 4?
18. i have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without
water. what am i? 19. i am something that has teeth but can't eat. what
am i?
20. what is a sick man a controdiction?
key: 1.vegetable 2.silence 3.mirror 4.nothing 5.the
letter “l” 6. are you asleep? 7.courtship 8.a donkey 9.in the
dictionary 10. fold it. 11.in the dictionary 12.the bridge of a nose
13.letter b 14.letter p 15.because it is killed before it is cured (烧烤待
处理) 16.football match, basketball match, etc. 17.when they make 22. 18.a
map 19.a comb 20.when he is an impatient patient.
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谜语 riddles
why is six afraid of seven?
-----------------------because seven eight nine.
what do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law?
-----------------------mom.
why do lions eat raw meat?
-----------------------because they never learn to cook.
why did the chicken cross the road?
-----------------------to get to the other side.
why did the fox cross the road?
-----------------------to get the chicken.
why did the gum cross the road?
-----------------------it was on the chicken’s foot.
why did the turkey cross the road twice?
-----------------------to prove it was not a chicken.
why did the weasel cross the road twice?
-----------------------he was a double crosser.
why didn't the skeleton cross the road?
-----------------------it didn’t have the guts.
what goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?
-----------------------ann umbrella.
what's black and white and red all over?
-----------------------a zebra that doesn’t know how to put lipstick on.
what is the largest ant in the world?
-----------------------an elephant.
how much is a skunk worth?
-----------------------one scent.
what kind of monkey can fly?
-----------------------a hot air baboon.
why did the cake like to play baseball?
-----------------------because it was a good batter.
what goes hahaha, plop?
-----------------------someone laughing their head off.
why didn't the lady run away from the attacking lion?
-----------------------they told her it was a maneating lion.
why has no one ever spotted a leopard in africa?
-----------------------because leopards are already born with spots.
what did the banana do when it heard the ice scream?
-----------------------it split.
swings by his thigh a thing most magical! below the belt, beneath the folds
of his clothes it hangs, a hole in its front end, stiff-set and stout, but
swivels about. levelling the head of this hanging instrument, its wielder
hoists his hem above the knee: it is his will to fill a well-known hole that
it fits fully when at full length. he has often filled it before. now he
fills it again.
----------------------- a key
i'm the world's wonder, for i make women happy --a boon to the neighborhood,
a bane to no one,
though i may perhaps prick the one who picks me. i am set well up, stand in a
bed, have a roughish root. rarely (though it happens) a churl's daughter more
daring than the rest --and lovelier! --lays hold of me, and lays me in
larder.
she learns soon enough, the curly-haired creature who clamps me so, of my
meeting with her: moist is her eye!
-----------------------an onion
a young man made for the corner where he knew she was standing; this
strapping youth had come some way--with his own hands he whipped up her
dress, and under her girdle (as she stood there) thrust something stiff,
worked his will; they both shook. this fellow quickened: one moment he was
forceful, a first rate servant, so strenuous that the next he was knocked up,
quite blown by his exertion. beneath the girdle a thing began to grow that
upstanding men often think of, tenderly, and acquire.
----------------------- dough
i'm told a certain something grows in its pouch, swells and stands up, lifts
its covering. a proud bride grasped that boneless wonder, the daughter of a
king covered that swollen thing with clothing.
-----------------------a churn
a lovely woman, a lady, often locked me in a chest; at times she took me out
with her fingers, and gave me to her lord and loyal master, just as he asked.
then he poked his head inside me, pushed it up until it fitted tightly. i,
adorned, was bound to be filled with something rough if the loyal lord
could keep it up. guess what i mean.
----------------------- helmet
who makes it, has no need of it. who buys it, has no use for it. who uses it
can neither see nor feel it.
---------------------coffin
tell me what a dozen rubber trees with thirty boughs on each might be?
---------------------months of the year
as i went over london bridge i met my sister jenny i broke her neck and drank
her blood and left her standing empty.
---------------------gin
it is said among my people that some things are improved by death. tell me,
what stinks while living, but in death, smells good?
---------------------pig
all right. riddle me this: what goes through the door without pinching
itself? what sits on the stove without burning itself? what sits on the table
and is not ashamed?
---------------------the sun
what work is it that the faster you work, the longer it is before you're
done, and the slower you work, the sooner you're finished?
--------------------- roasting meat on a spit
whilst i was engaged in sitting i spied the dead carrying the living.
--------------------- a ship
i know a word of letters three. add two, and fewer there will be.
--------------------- 'few'
i give you a group of three. one is sitting down, and will never get up. the
second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. the third goes
away and never returns.
--------------------- stove, fire, and smoke
whoever makes it, tells it not. whoever takes it, knows it not. and whoever
knows it wants it not.
--------------------- counterfeit money
two words, my answer is only two words. to keep me, you must give me.
solution your word sir, i bear a rhyme excelling in mystic force and magic
spelling celestial sprites elucidate all my own striving can't relate
--------------------- pi (digits given by length of words)
there is not wind enough to twirl that one red leaf, nearest of its clan,
which dances as often as dance it can.
--------------------- the sun, samuel taylor coleridge
half-way up the hill, i see thee at last lying beneath me with thy sounds and
sights -- a city in the twilight, dim and vast, with smoking roofs, soft
bells, and gleaming lights.
--------------------- the past, longfellow
i am, in truth, a yellow fork
from tables in the sky
by inadvertent fingers dropped
the awful cutlery.
of mansions never quite disclosed
and never quite concealed
the apparatus of the dark
to ignorance revealed.
--------------------- lightning, emily dickinson
many-maned scud-thumper,
maker of worn wood,
shrub-ruster,
sky-mocker,
rave!
portly pusher,
wind-slave.
--------------------- john updike
make me thy lyre, even as the forests are.
what if my leaves fell like its own --
the tumult of thy mighty harmonies
will take from both a deep autumnal tone.
--------------------- the west wind, percy bysshe shelley
this darksome burn, horseback brown,
his rollock highroad roaring down,
in coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
flutes and low to the body falls home.
--------------------- river, gerard manley hopkins
i've measured it from side to side,
'tis three feet long and two feet wide.
it is of compass small, and bare
to thirsty suns and parching air.
--------------------- the grave of a child, wordsworth
my love, when i gaze on thy beautiful face,
careering along, yet always in place --
the thought has often come into my mind
if i ever shall see thy glorious behind.
--------------------- the moon, sir edmund gosse
then all thy feculent majesty recalls
the nauseous mustiness of forsaken bowers,
the leprous nudity of deserted halls --
the positive nastiness of sullied flowers.
and i mark the colours, yellow and black,
that fresco thy lithe, dictatorial thighs.
--------------------- spider, francis saltus saltus
when young, i am sweet in the sun.
when middle-aged, i make you gay.
when old, i am valued more than ever.
--------------------- wine
i am always hungry,
i must always be fed,
the finger i lick
will soon turn red.
--------------------- fire
all about, but cannot be seen,
can be captured, cannot be held,
no throat, but can be heard.
--------------------- wind
i am only useful
when i am full,
yet i am always
full of holes.
--------------------- sieve (or sponge)
if you break me
i do not stop working,
if you touch me
i may be snared,
if you lose me
nothing will matter.
--------------------- heart
if a man carried my burden
he would break his back.
i am not rich,
but leave silver in my track.
--------------------- snail
until i am measured
i am not known,
yet how you miss me
when i have flown.
--------------------- time
i drive men mad
for love of me,
easily beaten,
never free.
--------------------- gold
when set loose
i fly away,
never so cursed
as when i go astray.
--------------------- a fart
i go around in circles
but always straight ahead,
never complain
no matter where i am led.
--------------------- wagon wheel
lighter than what
i am made of,
more of me is hidden
than is seen.
--------------------- iceberg
i turn around once,
what is out will not get in.
i turn around again,
what is in will not get out.
--------------------- stopcock
each morning i appear
to lie at your feet,
all day i will follow
no matter how fast you run,
yet i nearly perish
in the midday sun.
--------------------- shadow
bright as diamonds,
loud as thunder,
never still,
a thing of wonder.
--------------------- waterfall? (fireworks?)
my life can be measured in hours,
i serve by being devoured.
thin, i am quick
fat, i am slow
wind is my foe.
--------------------- candle
to unravel me
you need a simple key,
no key that was made
by locksmith's hand,
but a key that only i
will understand.
--------------------- cipher
i am seen in the water
if seen in the sky,
i am in the rainbow,
a jay's feather,
and lapis lazuli.
--------------------- blue
glittering points
that downward thrust,
sparkling spears
that never rust.
--------------------- icicle
you heard me before,
yet you hear me again,
then i die,
'till you call me again.
--------------------- echo
three lives have i.
gentle enough to soothe the skin,
light enough to caress the sky,
hard enough to crack rocks.
--------------------- water
you can see nothing else
when you look in my face,
i will look you in the eye
and i will never lie.
--------------------- your reflection
lovely and round,
i shine with pale light,
grown in the darkness,
a lady's delight.
--------------------- pearl
at the sound of me, men may dream
or stamp their feet
at the sound of me, women may laugh
or sometimes weep
--------------------- music
when i am filled
i can point the way,
when i am empty
nothing moves me,
i have two skins
one without and one within.
--------------------- glove
my tines be long,
my tines be short
my tines end ere
my first report.
what am i?
--------------------- lightning
with thieves i consort,
with the vilest, in short,
i'm quite at ease in depravity;
yet all divines use me,
and savants can't lose me,
for i am the center of gravity.
--------------------- the letter 'v'.
as a whole, i am both safe and secure.
behead me, and i become a place of meeting.
behead me again, and i am the partner of ready.
restore me, and i become the domain of beasts.
what am i?
--------------------- stable
i sought my first in starry skies
where shines the april sun;
my second came before my eyes,
and warned me to be done.
'tis very hard to lose one's sight;
i'm blind as bat or mole;
once hills and fields were my delight,
now i'm no more my whole.
solution ?
my first is high,
my second damp,
my whole a tie,
a writer's cramp.
solution ?
a hundred and one
by fifty divide,
and if a cipher
is rightly applied,
the answer is one from nine.
solution ?
what does man love more than life
fear more than death or mortal strife
what the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
what the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
and all men carry to their graves?
--------------------- nothing
i build up castles.
i tear down mountains.
i make some men blind,
i help others to see.
what am i?
--------------------- sand
ripped from my mother's womb,
beaten and burned,
i become a blood-thirsty slayer
what am i?
--------------------- iron ore
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english riddles-谜语
1.what month do soldiers hate?
2.how many feet are there in a yard?
3.why is an empty purse always the same?
4.what book has the most stirring chapters?
5.what kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?
6.what is the smallest room in the world?
7.what kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?
8.how do we know the ocean is friendly?
9.which can move faster, heat or cold?
10.why is the library the highest building?
答案:
what month do soldiers hate?
march (三月,行军)
how many feet are there in a yard?
it depends on how many people stand in the yard. (码,院子)
why is an empty purse always the same?
there is no change in it. (零钱,变化)
what book has the most stirring chapters?
a cook book. (动人的,搅拌的)
what kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?
hot dog. (热狗)
what is the smallest room in the world?
mushroom. (蘑菇)
what kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?
drink well water. (井水,健康的)
how do we know the ocean is friendly?
it waves. (起波浪,招手致意)
which can move faster, heat or cold?
heat, because you can catch cold. (追上冷,患感冒)
why is the library the highest building?
it has the most stories. (故事,(楼)层)
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小谜语
questions
问题
1.what gets larger,the more you take away?什么东西你拿走越多,反而越大
?
2.what goes on four legs in the morning,on two at noon,and on three in
the evening?什么走路开始用四条腿,后来用两条腿,最后用三条腿?
3.what do we get if we cross a woodpecker with a homing pigeon?把一只啄
木鸟和一只识途的鸽子融合在一起,会得到什么?
4.where does afternoon come before morning in the world?世界上哪个地方下
午比早上先到?
5.can you tell me some thing about the great scientists of the 18th
century?你能告诉我一些18世纪伟大家的事吗?
keys
答案
1.ahole.洞
2.people.they crawled when they were babies and walked with two legs
before they had to rely on a crutch in old age.
是人,他们刚生下来的时候用四肢爬行,后来用双腿走路,老年时又不得不依靠拐
杖走。
3.a bird that knocks on the door when delivering messages.将得到一只送信
时会敲门的鸟。
4.in the dictionary.在字典里。
5.they're all dead.他们都已过世
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谜语11则
1.it looks like sugar, but it’s not sweet.it looks like cotton, but it can’
t spin.
it comes in winter and makes the weather colder.what is it?
2.you can’t catch his body; you can’t see his shadow.when strong, he shakes
the house,when weak, the tree leaves.
3.when i come down from the sky,i make everything wet.what am i ?
4.what animal carries two hills on its back?
5.what animal wears big black glasses on its face?
6.what animal sleeps in daytime but flies at night?
7.they are of many beautiful colors: red, yellow,pink, purple, blue, blue,
orange and white. some of them smell very sweet. you can see lots of them in
spring and summer. when autumn comes,they become fewer and fewer. in winter
you can hardly find them in the fields. then they come back again with
spring. what are they?
8.it’s round and green outside and yellow or red inside. we have it in
summer. it grows in the fields. it can grow as big as a basketball, or even
bigger. it is very sweet and very good to eat. i an sure you know it. and you
like to eat it, don’t you? can you tell me now what it is?
9.what goes up every time the rain comes down?
10.thousands in one big family are busy every day, making sweets for others
and giving mthem away.
11.“if” is between us. can you guess what english word it is?
key:1.snow 2.wind 3.rain 4.camel 5.panda 6.bat 7.flowers
8.watermelon 9.umbrella 10. bees 11.wife
下猜了。先猜猜下面这个容易的: 1. what table is in the field?
再猜猜这一个: 2. what is the only thing you can break when you say its
name?
若猜对了,请接着往下猜:
3. what is there in your house that ought to be looked into?
4. what is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never
existed and still has a name?
5. what changes a pear into a pearl?
6. what question can never be answered by 'yes'?
7. what ship has two mates but no captain?
8. what is the most difficult key to turn?
9. where can you always find money?
10. what is the surest way to double your money?
11. where does afternoon come before morning in the world?
12. what is the smallest bridge in the world?
13. what letter makes a road broad?
14. what letter sounds like a vegetable?
15. why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?
16. what match can't be put in a match-box?
17. when do 2 and 2 make more than 4?
18. i have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without
water. what am i? 19. i am something that has teeth but can't eat. what
am i?
20. what is a sick man a controdiction?
key: 1.vegetable 2.silence 3.mirror 4.nothing 5.the
letter “l” 6. are you asleep? 7.courtship 8.a donkey 9.in the
dictionary 10. fold it. 11.in the dictionary 12.the bridge of a nose
13.letter b 14.letter p 15.because it is killed before it is cured (烧烤待
处理) 16.football match, basketball match, etc. 17.when they make 22. 18.a
map 19.a comb 20.when he is an impatient patient.
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谜语 riddles
why is six afraid of seven?
-----------------------because seven eight nine.
what do you call your father-in-law's only child's mother-in-law?
-----------------------mom.
why do lions eat raw meat?
-----------------------because they never learn to cook.
why did the chicken cross the road?
-----------------------to get to the other side.
why did the fox cross the road?
-----------------------to get the chicken.
why did the gum cross the road?
-----------------------it was on the chicken’s foot.
why did the turkey cross the road twice?
-----------------------to prove it was not a chicken.
why did the weasel cross the road twice?
-----------------------he was a double crosser.
why didn't the skeleton cross the road?
-----------------------it didn’t have the guts.
what goes up a chimney down, but won't go down a chimney up?
-----------------------ann umbrella.
what's black and white and red all over?
-----------------------a zebra that doesn’t know how to put lipstick on.
what is the largest ant in the world?
-----------------------an elephant.
how much is a skunk worth?
-----------------------one scent.
what kind of monkey can fly?
-----------------------a hot air baboon.
why did the cake like to play baseball?
-----------------------because it was a good batter.
what goes hahaha, plop?
-----------------------someone laughing their head off.
why didn't the lady run away from the attacking lion?
-----------------------they told her it was a maneating lion.
why has no one ever spotted a leopard in africa?
-----------------------because leopards are already born with spots.
what did the banana do when it heard the ice scream?
-----------------------it split.
swings by his thigh a thing most magical! below the belt, beneath the folds
of his clothes it hangs, a hole in its front end, stiff-set and stout, but
swivels about. levelling the head of this hanging instrument, its wielder
hoists his hem above the knee: it is his will to fill a well-known hole that
it fits fully when at full length. he has often filled it before. now he
fills it again.
----------------------- a key
i'm the world's wonder, for i make women happy --a boon to the neighborhood,
a bane to no one,
though i may perhaps prick the one who picks me. i am set well up, stand in a
bed, have a roughish root. rarely (though it happens) a churl's daughter more
daring than the rest --and lovelier! --lays hold of me, and lays me in
larder.
she learns soon enough, the curly-haired creature who clamps me so, of my
meeting with her: moist is her eye!
-----------------------an onion
a young man made for the corner where he knew she was standing; this
strapping youth had come some way--with his own hands he whipped up her
dress, and under her girdle (as she stood there) thrust something stiff,
worked his will; they both shook. this fellow quickened: one moment he was
forceful, a first rate servant, so strenuous that the next he was knocked up,
quite blown by his exertion. beneath the girdle a thing began to grow that
upstanding men often think of, tenderly, and acquire.
----------------------- dough
i'm told a certain something grows in its pouch, swells and stands up, lifts
its covering. a proud bride grasped that boneless wonder, the daughter of a
king covered that swollen thing with clothing.
-----------------------a churn
a lovely woman, a lady, often locked me in a chest; at times she took me out
with her fingers, and gave me to her lord and loyal master, just as he asked.
then he poked his head inside me, pushed it up until it fitted tightly. i,
adorned, was bound to be filled with something rough if the loyal lord
could keep it up. guess what i mean.
----------------------- helmet
who makes it, has no need of it. who buys it, has no use for it. who uses it
can neither see nor feel it.
---------------------coffin
tell me what a dozen rubber trees with thirty boughs on each might be?
---------------------months of the year
as i went over london bridge i met my sister jenny i broke her neck and drank
her blood and left her standing empty.
---------------------gin
it is said among my people that some things are improved by death. tell me,
what stinks while living, but in death, smells good?
---------------------pig
all right. riddle me this: what goes through the door without pinching
itself? what sits on the stove without burning itself? what sits on the table
and is not ashamed?
---------------------the sun
what work is it that the faster you work, the longer it is before you're
done, and the slower you work, the sooner you're finished?
--------------------- roasting meat on a spit
whilst i was engaged in sitting i spied the dead carrying the living.
--------------------- a ship
i know a word of letters three. add two, and fewer there will be.
--------------------- 'few'
i give you a group of three. one is sitting down, and will never get up. the
second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. the third goes
away and never returns.
--------------------- stove, fire, and smoke
whoever makes it, tells it not. whoever takes it, knows it not. and whoever
knows it wants it not.
--------------------- counterfeit money
two words, my answer is only two words. to keep me, you must give me.
solution your word sir, i bear a rhyme excelling in mystic force and magic
spelling celestial sprites elucidate all my own striving can't relate
--------------------- pi (digits given by length of words)
there is not wind enough to twirl that one red leaf, nearest of its clan,
which dances as often as dance it can.
--------------------- the sun, samuel taylor coleridge
half-way up the hill, i see thee at last lying beneath me with thy sounds and
sights -- a city in the twilight, dim and vast, with smoking roofs, soft
bells, and gleaming lights.
--------------------- the past, longfellow
i am, in truth, a yellow fork
from tables in the sky
by inadvertent fingers dropped
the awful cutlery.
of mansions never quite disclosed
and never quite concealed
the apparatus of the dark
to ignorance revealed.
--------------------- lightning, emily dickinson
many-maned scud-thumper,
maker of worn wood,
shrub-ruster,
sky-mocker,
rave!
portly pusher,
wind-slave.
--------------------- john updike
make me thy lyre, even as the forests are.
what if my leaves fell like its own --
the tumult of thy mighty harmonies
will take from both a deep autumnal tone.
--------------------- the west wind, percy bysshe shelley
this darksome burn, horseback brown,
his rollock highroad roaring down,
in coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
flutes and low to the body falls home.
--------------------- river, gerard manley hopkins
i've measured it from side to side,
'tis three feet long and two feet wide.
it is of compass small, and bare
to thirsty suns and parching air.
--------------------- the grave of a child, wordsworth
my love, when i gaze on thy beautiful face,
careering along, yet always in place --
the thought has often come into my mind
if i ever shall see thy glorious behind.
--------------------- the moon, sir edmund gosse
then all thy feculent majesty recalls
the nauseous mustiness of forsaken bowers,
the leprous nudity of deserted halls --
the positive nastiness of sullied flowers.
and i mark the colours, yellow and black,
that fresco thy lithe, dictatorial thighs.
--------------------- spider, francis saltus saltus
when young, i am sweet in the sun.
when middle-aged, i make you gay.
when old, i am valued more than ever.
--------------------- wine
i am always hungry,
i must always be fed,
the finger i lick
will soon turn red.
--------------------- fire
all about, but cannot be seen,
can be captured, cannot be held,
no throat, but can be heard.
--------------------- wind
i am only useful
when i am full,
yet i am always
full of holes.
--------------------- sieve (or sponge)
if you break me
i do not stop working,
if you touch me
i may be snared,
if you lose me
nothing will matter.
--------------------- heart
if a man carried my burden
he would break his back.
i am not rich,
but leave silver in my track.
--------------------- snail
until i am measured
i am not known,
yet how you miss me
when i have flown.
--------------------- time
i drive men mad
for love of me,
easily beaten,
never free.
--------------------- gold
when set loose
i fly away,
never so cursed
as when i go astray.
--------------------- a fart
i go around in circles
but always straight ahead,
never complain
no matter where i am led.
--------------------- wagon wheel
lighter than what
i am made of,
more of me is hidden
than is seen.
--------------------- iceberg
i turn around once,
what is out will not get in.
i turn around again,
what is in will not get out.
--------------------- stopcock
each morning i appear
to lie at your feet,
all day i will follow
no matter how fast you run,
yet i nearly perish
in the midday sun.
--------------------- shadow
bright as diamonds,
loud as thunder,
never still,
a thing of wonder.
--------------------- waterfall? (fireworks?)
my life can be measured in hours,
i serve by being devoured.
thin, i am quick
fat, i am slow
wind is my foe.
--------------------- candle
to unravel me
you need a simple key,
no key that was made
by locksmith's hand,
but a key that only i
will understand.
--------------------- cipher
i am seen in the water
if seen in the sky,
i am in the rainbow,
a jay's feather,
and lapis lazuli.
--------------------- blue
glittering points
that downward thrust,
sparkling spears
that never rust.
--------------------- icicle
you heard me before,
yet you hear me again,
then i die,
'till you call me again.
--------------------- echo
three lives have i.
gentle enough to soothe the skin,
light enough to caress the sky,
hard enough to crack rocks.
--------------------- water
you can see nothing else
when you look in my face,
i will look you in the eye
and i will never lie.
--------------------- your reflection
lovely and round,
i shine with pale light,
grown in the darkness,
a lady's delight.
--------------------- pearl
at the sound of me, men may dream
or stamp their feet
at the sound of me, women may laugh
or sometimes weep
--------------------- music
when i am filled
i can point the way,
when i am empty
nothing moves me,
i have two skins
one without and one within.
--------------------- glove
my tines be long,
my tines be short
my tines end ere
my first report.
what am i?
--------------------- lightning
with thieves i consort,
with the vilest, in short,
i'm quite at ease in depravity;
yet all divines use me,
and savants can't lose me,
for i am the center of gravity.
--------------------- the letter 'v'.
as a whole, i am both safe and secure.
behead me, and i become a place of meeting.
behead me again, and i am the partner of ready.
restore me, and i become the domain of beasts.
what am i?
--------------------- stable
i sought my first in starry skies
where shines the april sun;
my second came before my eyes,
and warned me to be done.
'tis very hard to lose one's sight;
i'm blind as bat or mole;
once hills and fields were my delight,
now i'm no more my whole.
solution ?
my first is high,
my second damp,
my whole a tie,
a writer's cramp.
solution ?
a hundred and one
by fifty divide,
and if a cipher
is rightly applied,
the answer is one from nine.
solution ?
what does man love more than life
fear more than death or mortal strife
what the poor have, the rich require,
and what contented men desire,
what the miser spends and the spendthrift saves
and all men carry to their graves?
--------------------- nothing
i build up castles.
i tear down mountains.
i make some men blind,
i help others to see.
what am i?
--------------------- sand
ripped from my mother's womb,
beaten and burned,
i become a blood-thirsty slayer
what am i?
--------------------- iron ore
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english riddles-谜语
1.what month do soldiers hate?
2.how many feet are there in a yard?
3.why is an empty purse always the same?
4.what book has the most stirring chapters?
5.what kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?
6.what is the smallest room in the world?
7.what kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?
8.how do we know the ocean is friendly?
9.which can move faster, heat or cold?
10.why is the library the highest building?
答案:
what month do soldiers hate?
march (三月,行军)
how many feet are there in a yard?
it depends on how many people stand in the yard. (码,院子)
why is an empty purse always the same?
there is no change in it. (零钱,变化)
what book has the most stirring chapters?
a cook book. (动人的,搅拌的)
what kind of dog doesn't bite or bark?
hot dog. (热狗)
what is the smallest room in the world?
mushroom. (蘑菇)
what kind of water should people drink in order to be healthy?
drink well water. (井水,健康的)
how do we know the ocean is friendly?
it waves. (起波浪,招手致意)
which can move faster, heat or cold?
heat, because you can catch cold. (追上冷,患感冒)
why is the library the highest building?
it has the most stories. (故事,(楼)层)
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小谜语
questions
问题
1.what gets larger,the more you take away?什么东西你拿走越多,反而越大
?
2.what goes on four legs in the morning,on two at noon,and on three in
the evening?什么走路开始用四条腿,后来用两条腿,最后用三条腿?
3.what do we get if we cross a woodpecker with a homing pigeon?把一只啄
木鸟和一只识途的鸽子融合在一起,会得到什么?
4.where does afternoon come before morning in the world?世界上哪个地方下
午比早上先到?
5.can you tell me some thing about the great scientists of the 18th
century?你能告诉我一些18世纪伟大家的事吗?
keys
答案
1.ahole.洞
2.people.they crawled when they were babies and walked with two legs
before they had to rely on a crutch in old age.
是人,他们刚生下来的时候用四肢爬行,后来用双腿走路,老年时又不得不依靠拐
杖走。
3.a bird that knocks on the door when delivering messages.将得到一只送信
时会敲门的鸟。
4.in the dictionary.在字典里。
5.they're all dead.他们都已过世
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谜语11则
1.it looks like sugar, but it’s not sweet.it looks like cotton, but it can’
t spin.
it comes in winter and makes the weather colder.what is it?
2.you can’t catch his body; you can’t see his shadow.when strong, he shakes
the house,when weak, the tree leaves.
3.when i come down from the sky,i make everything wet.what am i ?
4.what animal carries two hills on its back?
5.what animal wears big black glasses on its face?
6.what animal sleeps in daytime but flies at night?
7.they are of many beautiful colors: red, yellow,pink, purple, blue, blue,
orange and white. some of them smell very sweet. you can see lots of them in
spring and summer. when autumn comes,they become fewer and fewer. in winter
you can hardly find them in the fields. then they come back again with
spring. what are they?
8.it’s round and green outside and yellow or red inside. we have it in
summer. it grows in the fields. it can grow as big as a basketball, or even
bigger. it is very sweet and very good to eat. i an sure you know it. and you
like to eat it, don’t you? can you tell me now what it is?
9.what goes up every time the rain comes down?
10.thousands in one big family are busy every day, making sweets for others
and giving mthem away.
11.“if” is between us. can you guess what english word it is?
key:1.snow 2.wind 3.rain 4.camel 5.panda 6.bat 7.flowers
8.watermelon 9.umbrella 10. bees 11.wife