英語中的奇葩詞匯，真的讓人很頭大

There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger, neither apple nor pine in pineapple。

雞蛋和茄子沒什么血緣關(guān)系，蘋果和鳳梨的長相差距也很大。

English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France。

英式松餅的家鄉(xiāng)不是英國;炸土豆條的發(fā)源地也不是法國。

Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat。

蜜餞 (sweetmeats) 不是肉，是甜的;雜碎 (sweetbreads) 是肉，不是甜的。

We find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square andaguinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig。

流沙其實流得很慢;拳擊臺是方形的;實驗用的小豚鼠的老家不是幾內(nèi)亞，長相和豬屬于兩種型。

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

素食主義者吃蔬菜，人道主義者吃人(human)?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

slim 和fat意思相反，接“chance”，都是“機會渺茫”;“man”和“guy”的意思相近，但是“wise man”和“wise guy”的意思就不一樣了呢?

How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike?

Look和see是近義詞，但oversee監(jiān)視，overlook意思怎么就是忽視呢;A lot和a few是反義詞，但與quite連用，怎么都表示很多的意思呢!

When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible。

星星出來了，我們能看到它們;燈滅了，我們就什么也看不見了。

When you wind up your watch, you start it, but when you wind up an essay, you end it !

給表上發(fā)條，表就開始走了;wind up一篇文章，哈哈，文章到此結(jié)束啦。