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8 Q% N7 h: m, R P1. The most common letter in English is "e".
6 Z0 z7 W& Z" S7 A: X/ ?1、英语里最常见的字母是“e”。2 i% c% `+ H; ^, O" f- T( }
2. The most common consonant in English is "r", followed by "t".2 Y( q, w* F# L) I4 N& U! c( j
2、英语里最常见的辅音字母是“r”，接着是“t”。* E5 Z$ j2 e" M& I
3. Only two English words in current use end in "-gry". They are "angry" and "hungry".5 @7 I9 u P9 C# [' _
3、当代英语只有“angry”和“hungry”两个单词是以“gry”结尾的。1 [8 U$ ?$ h/ _: A; ]3 [% a W1 J9 s
4. The word "bookkeeper" (along with its associate "bookkeeping") is the only unhyphenated English word with three consecutive double letters. Other such words, like "sweet-toothed", require a hyphen to be readily readable.
1 t) Z, r/ {$ I9 p# i7 k. W4、“bookkeeper”这个单词（还有与之相关的“bookkeeping”）是唯一一个不带连字符、有三对连续重复字母的单词。还有一个类似的单词是“sweet-toothed”，但它需要用连字符连接以确保能读出来。( n( N) w/ }" }; u. e
5. The word "triskaidekaphobia" means "extreme fear of the number 13". This superstition is related to "paraskevidekatriaphobia", which means "fear of Friday the 13th".
9 _! ^' O+ ?$ S5、有个词叫“triskaidekaphobia”，意思是“对数字13的极度恐惧”。这种迷信也和“paraskevidekatriaphobia”这个词有关，意思是“害怕13号正好是礼拜五的那天”。7 S& k; ^ m! e0 l' @
6. More English words begin with the letter "s" than with any other letter.
" s N) x, e9 c! n B7 o6、以“s”打头的单词比其他任何字母打头的单词都要多。! Q, e$ C7 i6 Q* _* ?3 r% n
7. A preposition is always followed by a noun (ie noun, proper noun, pronoun, noun group, gerund).
, c1 p4 X& }0 ~+ l: p7、介词后面永远要跟一个名词（或专有名词、代词、名词词组、动名词）。
" [3 u0 P* i Y V% v4 w8. The word "uncopyrightable" is the longest English word in normal use that contains no letter more than once.$ ^+ M# V4 ]5 ^7 h9 d
8、“uncopyrightable”是英文里最长的无重复字母的常见单词。
; b6 O b9 G$ ]. }1 w9.A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram".) S$ M' X3 }' e8 q. L
9、一个包含所有26个字母的句子叫做“pangram”。
2 _5 w6 ?3 t5 I( s. m10. The following sentence contains all 26 letters of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." This sentence is often used to test typewriters or keyboards./ w9 A( S* x3 j
10、下面这个句子就包含所有26个字母“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”（敏捷的棕色狐狸跳过了懒狗），这个句子也常被用来测试打字机或键盘。
9 f6 q' p( T( c! V' W9 ?11. The word "alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, bēta.( c8 S) m1 d( z) D: m
11、“alphabet”这个单词来源于前两个希腊字母：α和β。
+ k4 z# U6 ` t. y) W- I12. In English, the @ symbol is usually called "the at sign" or "the at symbol".
5 j" Q; k; O5 W# k; [/ ?- Z12、英语中，@符号通常叫做“at标志”、或“at符号”。: V3 i& D7 ^( k0 r0 k
13. The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."
1 N3 d* h. k# d) a13、英语里最短的完整句子是“I am”。. v$ m3 R3 ~3 a1 q0 T6 D! j" }
14. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".9 y9 O' Z( u! p2 m" C
14、象棋里“将军”这个词来源于波斯语“Shah Mat”，意思是“国王束手无策”。
3 s( G, h+ T; S. O15. The longest English word without a true vowel is "rhythm".
! c$ s% g, a% V. u* O15、英语里最长的没有元音字母的单词是“rhythm”。
' N% Y- v* j1 u! C0 Z3 L16. The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth.
: a9 I; X) a$ U) k' }* V( X16、唯一一个不以神的名字命名的行星是我们地球。 D; h9 V x- k% {! B7 o
17.We can find 10 words in the 7-letter word "therein" without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
" h3 a+ }5 @3 ^& F4 y: M+ A0 c17、从“therein”这个由七个字母组成的单词里，能不换字母顺序而找出十个单词：the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
, ]) Y. V0 a/ L5 A8 q: ~) U18.The "QWERTY keyboard" gains its name from the fact that its first 6 letter keys are Q, W, E, R, T and Y. On early typewriters the keys were arranged in such a way as to minimize the clashing of the mechanical rods that carried the letters.7 ?8 c7 k. c# p5 k/ [3 H
18.“QWERTY”键盘是以这种键盘的头六个字母命名的。人们还在用打字机的时候，这么安排字母顺序是为了减小印有字母的机械杆撞到一起的情况。% T, D. g5 w6 x! i
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