中石油职称英语教材（Word文档）2010？ 这个已经有人发过了！ 1.english is a crazy language 英语是一门疯狂的语言 1.let's face it-english is a crazy language. there is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. english muffins weren't invented in england nor french fries in france. sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,which aren't sweet,are meat. 1.让我们接受现实吧--英语是一种疯狂的语言。茄子（eggplant，字面意为鸡蛋植物）里并没有鸡蛋，汉堡包（hamburger，字面意为火腿夹饼）里也没有火腿。同样，菠萝（pineapple，字面意为松树苹果）里既没有松树也没有苹果。松饼（english muffin，字面意为英式松饼）并不是英国人发明的，而炸薯条（french fries，字面意为法式油炸食品）也不是法国人的发明。“甜肉”（sweetmeat）指的是蜜饯，而“甜面包”（sweetbread）不是甜的，它指的是牛杂碎。 2.we take english for granted. but if we explore its paradoxes,we find that quicksand can work slowly,boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from guinea nor is it a pig. and why it is that writers write but fingers don't fing,grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? if the plural of tooth is teeth,why isn't the plural of booth beeth? if you have one goose,two geese,why not one moose,two meese,or one index,two indices? 2.我们理所当然地接受了英语的一切，但是如果我们分析一下英语中似是而非的情况，我们马上就会发现“快的沙子”（quicksand，流沙，也指陷阱，困境）往往走得很慢，“拳击的圆圈”（boxing rings，拳击场）是方的，“几内亚猪”（guinea pig，天竺鼠）既不是来自几内亚，也不是猪。还有，既然名词作家（writers）去掉词尾的rs 就可以成为动词“写作(write）”，那为什么名词“手指”（fingers）、杂货店（grocers）、锤子（hammers）去掉rs就不能成为各自相应的动词呢？如果牙齿的复数是teeth，那为什么售货亭的复数不是beeth？一只鹅我们用goose，两只鹅用geese，那么，一只驼鹿用moose（单复数同形），两只驼鹿就应该是meese了？为什么一条索引是index，两条索引却成了indices？ 3.doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend,or that you can comb through the annals of history but not a single annal? if you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,what do you call it? 3.如果你赔偿时只能赔偿复数不能赔偿单数，这是不是很莫名其妙？你可以梳理历史的编年史，为什么却不能复习某一个单个的编年史？如果你有一堆麻烦，那么在你把其他的都解决了只剩下一个的时候该怎么说呢？ 4.if teachers taught,why didn't preachers praught? if a vegetarian eats vegetables,what does a humanitarian eat? 4.如果教师教学是taught，那为什么传教士不是praught？如果素食主义者（vegetarian）吃蔬菜（vegetable），那人道主义者（humanitarian）吃什么？ 5.sometimes i think all the english speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. in what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital; ship by truck and send cargo by ship; have noses that run and feet that smell; park on driveways and drive on parkways? 5.有时候我觉得根据英国人说话时疯狂的用词可以将他们送进精神病院。哪一种语言人们可以在一出戏中朗诵，在朗诵中玩（分别指演戏和开独唱会）？用卡车运船，用船运货（分别只用卡车运输和用船运输）？鼻子可以跑而脚可以闻味道（分别指流鼻涕和脚有臭味）？车可以停在驾驶路上，而且在停车路上驾驶（driveway从字面上理解是驾驶路，parkway从字面上理解是停车路）。 6.how can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same,while a wise man and wise guy are opposites,and quite a lot and quite a few are alike? how can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another? 6.为什么一个苗条的机会（slim chance，指没机会）和一个肥胖的机会（fat chant，也指没机会）意思是一样的，而一个聪明的人（wise man，聪明人）和一个聪明的家伙（wise guy，自作聪明的人）却意思相反？为什么相当多（quite a lot）和相当少（quite a few）意思一样?（实际上quite a lot和quite a few都是相当多的意思。）为什么天气可以热的像地狱也可以冷得像地狱？（as hell字面意思像地狱一样，指非常） 7.you have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down,in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on. 7.你不得不对这种精神病一样的语言表示惊奇，在这种语言中，你的房子在被烧下去（burn down，意为烧为平地）的同时又被烧上去（burn up，意为烧起来，烧掉）。你用填出来（fill out，意为填写）的方法填进去（fill in,意思也是填写）一个表格。闹钟在走（go on）的时候响（go off）了。 8.english was invented by people,not computers,and it reflects the creativity of the human race. that is why,when the stars are out,they are visible,but when the lights are out,they are invisible. and why,when i wind up my watch,i start it,but when i wind up this essay,i end it? 8.英语是人而不是机器创造出来的语言，它反映了人类的创造性。这也是为什么当星星出来的时候，我们是看得见的，当阳光出来（out）的时候是看不见的。同理，我“处理”我的手表之后，它就开始（走）了；而我“处理”完这篇文章后，它却结束了。 2.all i learned in kindergarten 幼儿园所学的... 1.most of what i really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be,i learned in kindergarten. wisdom was not at the top of the graduate mountain, but there in the sandpile at nursery school. 1.大部分在生活中真正需要的，包括怎样生活，该做些什么，又该怎样去做，这些都是我在幼儿园时学会的。智慧不在研究生院的山巅之上，而在幼儿园的沙堆里。 2.these are the things i learned: share everything. play fair. don't hit people. put tilings back where you found them. clean up your own mess. don't take things that aren't yours. say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. wash your hands before you eat. warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. live a balanced life. learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday some. 2.以下就是我在幼儿园中学到的。分享所有的东西；行为光明磊落；不要攻击别人；东西要放回原处；自己弄脏的地方自己收拾好；不要拿走不属于自己的东西；如果你伤害了别人就得道歉；饭前洗手；热的甜点和凉的牛奶对身体有益；生活要有张有弛，学点东西、想点思想、写写画画、唱唱跳跳，休息和工作，每样事天天都要干一点。 3.take a nap every afternoon. when you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. be aware of wonder. remember the little seed in the plastic cup? the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. 3.每天下午小睡一会。当大家外出时，注意交通安全，记得手挽手，彼此互相扶持。多多注意那些生活的奇迹。你一定还记得那个塑料杯里的小小的种子吧，它不断的往下扎根，枝叶不断的向空中伸展。没有人真正知道它在怎样生长，也不知道是为了什么。但有一点很明白，我们也像他们一样地长大。 4.goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup-they all die. so do we. 4.看着金鱼、仓鼠以及小白鼠甚至是花盆中小小的一颗种子，最后他们的生命都将消亡。我们明白自己同样也不能避免。 5.and then remember the book about dick and jane1 and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: look. everything you need to know is in there somewhere. the golden rule and love and basic sanitation. ecology and polities and sane living. 5.同时我们还记得《迪克和珍妮》的书，以及从书中学到的第一个词，也是最了不起的一个词：观察。你所需要了解的任何事情：包括为人的原则、爱、应注意的基本卫生，生态环境和**哲学以及健全的生活方式，你都能在该书的某个地方找到答案。 6.think of what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. and it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together. 6.想一想，如果我们大家--全世界所有的人--每天下午3点左右能够享受甜点和牛奶，然后盖上被单美美地睡上一小会儿；如果每一个国家都能够遵循一个基本的立国之道，即东西放回原处，自己弄脏的地方自己收拾后，那么这个世界将是多么的美好啊。无论你年龄有多大，当你出去时，当你进入社会之时，最好和别人手牵手，互相扶持，团结一致，无论如何，这是一个颠扑不破的真理。查看更多
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