趣说英语200例

书籍目录

目录

1 Ace为什么叫尖子？

2 Nylon 的来历

3 GoFifty-fifty是个什么意思?

4 Hi 和 How Are You

5 Time is Money

6 Shanghai不仅是地名

7 l美元为什么叫 Buck?

8 Fat一词趣谈

9 Hot Dog 的来历

10 Oscar Award 趣闻

11 Kangaroo 是什么？

12 T-shirt and Tea

13 Fan 与球迷

14 AUGreektoMe

l5 What is GOF?

l6 Keeping Up with the Joneses

l7 What is Chinaman's Chance?

18 What is No Jaywalking?

19 What is FX?

20 LoseFace是丢脸吗？

21 Bogus (冒牌货)趣闻

22 Coffee（来历趣谈）

23 你知道 Daik Horee的来历吗?

24 What ia Doggy Bag?

25 Bikini 来自核试验

26 Tlie Story of Radar

27 Sucker 的趣谈

28 人人喜欢的Weekday

29 LongTimeNoSee对吗?

30 GoldBrick趣闻

31 High Way 趣谈

32 Chopstick 趣闻

33 News 一词趣谈

34 Grapevine 与小道消息

35 What is Prime Time?

36 What is Stray BuUet?

37 Sliniming减肥

38 What is Free?

39 Flashotaxis 和 Riototaxis

40 What is Pusher?

41 TnieHeUYouSay是什么意思?

42 Number One

43 Smoking趣谈

44 Gas趣闻

45 Get Off the Rails 与越轨

46 Bad Egg 和 Good Egg

47 What is VlP?

48 Leisure与闲适

49 Sugar趣谈

50 为什么西方人不喜欢 White Elephant?

51 Nonsense只能译成胡说八道吗?

52 GettheSack 与“炒鱿鱼

53 What is "You Can Say lliat Again"?

54 Stewardess 的来历

55 卡拉OK的“OK

56 Cracker 和 Biscuit

57 登月计划为何叫 ApoUo?

58 What is Birthday Suit?

59 Renting a Car

60 Whisky ifP Whiskey

61 Go West的来历

62 Hand 和 Glove

63 April Fool 趣谈

64 Com 和“庸俗语言

65 BuU Maiket iff Bear Maiket

66 Esperanto原来是笔名

67 Horee Opera 与西部片

68 Bunk与废话

69 What is a Reader in Geography?

70 Pirate和“老刀牌”香烟

71 lce Sucker 与“冰棍儿”

72 ThankYou难回答

73 What is ZlP?

74 Mickey Mouse 的来历

75 HijacK与动机

76 Wash One's Hands 趣谈

77 Robot的来历

78 Blind Alley 和死胡同

79 Appendix是多余的呢？

80 Champagne 原是地名

81 Taxi 应译“计程车”

82 Bum One's Boats 与破釜沉舟

83 Beer 趣谈

84 Atom一词的由来

85 Kiss-me-quick是花名

86 "Whatblt" 是什么东西?

87 Patent 的典故

88 You Are a Lucky Dog

89 Restaurant 和 Kitchen

90 Bike 的其它叫法

9! Comrade一词的来历

92 Cold 与感冒

93 Bom Yesteiday 与乳未干

94 Where's the Beef?

95 What is LSD?

96 Nicotme原来是人名

97 Smoke 趣谈

98 Channel 和 Canal

99 SharpCat是什么猫?

100 What is Casde in the Air?

101 Milky Way是牛奶路吗？

102 l Have Two Sistere 为何译成“我有三姐妹”？

lO3 What is A-Okay?

104 Hot Line 的灰历

105 Humour一词探源

106 Hello 的来历趣谈

l07 What is Blitz?

lO8 Polarize 趣谈

lO9 Chess是什么棋?

101 Ping-pong 是个商标

111 DonkeyWork趣谈

112 What is Coupon?

113 January原来是门神

114 What is " Count Down" ?

115 AU Systems Go 趣谈

116 Madam一词趣谈

117 Somebody 和 Nobody

118 Waste 和 Trash

119 What is the Sunbelt?

120 Vitamine 趣谈

121 Goodbye是怎么来的?

122 Calendari原是“讨债本”

123 Sofa 和 Annchair

124 What is Yellow Press?

l25 HoneyMoon的来历

126 Who is Miss Moral?

127 OntheHoree与上马

l28 Draught 趣谈和摩登

129 Modem 和摩登

130 Eat One's Woids 趣谈

131 God Knows 趣谈

132 Goodldea 的妙用

133 Ciy Wolf 与狼来了

134 What is Old Stoiy?

135 To Die Haid 趣谈

136 Tnirow Cold Water on 与泼冷水

137 Day-dream 趣谈

138 Christmas Caid的来历

139 What is Godown?

140 What is Kungfu?

141 What is Punch?

142 Philadelphia Lawyer 趣谈

143 Jgging 风靡美国

144 Pandora'sBox与灾难

145 Millennium Bug 趣谈

146 Delicious 与“蛇果”

147 Breakfast 趣谈

148 Tlie Customer is the King

149 What is Smog?

150 Whatls亡车锁库?

151 TurkeyDinner是土耳其大餐吗?

152 万能动词“Fix”

153 What is Red ink?

154 KnowHow趣谈

155 For Sale

156 What is Wire Tapping?

157 HaveaBite是咬人吗?

158 Bara 与坐牢

159 What is Noel?

160 What is Supennaiket?

161 What is Kung Hei Fat Choy?

162 Who invented lce Cream?

163 Bar原是横木

164 Shampoo一词的来历

165 What is Tip?

166 Dixie与十美元

167 Yankee Doodle 趣谈

168 What is Bazar?

169 Big Sellere 和 Best SeUere

170 What is El Nino?

171 What is Carat?

172 What is Bug?

173 Number One 趣谈

174 High on the Hog 趣谈

175 WhatIs“英特纳雄纳尔”？

176 What is the Historian's Trap?

177 Mini 一词趣谈

178 Who is Uncle Sam?

179 Science 一词由来

180 What is Good for Nothing?

181 What is Cineplex?

182 What is Bar Code?

183 Money原是“警告”

184 What is Clone?

185 Laser 一词的由来

186 Jeep一词的诞生

187 What is A B C?

188 What is Junk Bonds?

189 What is Pie?

190 Quaik一词的由来

191 What is OPM?

192 Love Apple 是何物?

193 Toilet 趣谈

194 Calculate 一词趣谈

195 What is Flea MaAet?

196 Dink 一词趣谈

197 Bankcrupt一词的来历

198 What is "Alumni"?

199 Bank一词的来历趣谈

200 What is Mass Line-up?

作者简介

据中国人民大学新闻院和日本国立国语研究所合作进行的“全国语言意识和外语观”的调查发现，我国城市居民对学习外语的热情不减。其中，学过英语的高达70%以上；表示今后想学外语的人，选择英语的仍然占绝对优势。但是不少人感到，英语太难学，而且枯燥无味。其实未必尽然，最根本的学习关键，是必须把母语学好，母语学习的好坏，直接影响外语学习的成果。另外，语言问题实际上也是知识问题，知识丰富，语言才能完美，表达才能清

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