译文轻松读系列:英语脑筋急转弯 [英文腦筋急轉彎]

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[台] 杨歌 著
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出版社: 上海译文出版社
ISBN:9787532766543
版次:1
商品编码:11523877
包装:平装
丛书名: 译文轻松读系列
外文名称:英文腦筋急轉彎
开本:32开
出版时间:2014-08-01
用纸:胶版纸
页数:176
字数:158000
正文语种:英文,中文

具体描述

编辑推荐

  《英语脑筋急转弯(译文轻松读系列)》编排巧妙,在双数页面提出问题,翻页后则给出相应的答案,解释生动幽默,且配有可爱插画,引导读者从新颖的角度入手,在不知不觉中习得英语知识。

内容简介

  《英语脑筋急转弯(译文轻松读系列)》由173则英语脑筋急转弯组成,根据内容分成8大类,包括食品、动物等。阅读生词约在1,200个左右。
  《英语脑筋急转弯(译文轻松读系列)》编排巧妙,在双数页面提出问题,翻页后则给出相应的答案,解释生动幽默,且配有可爱插画,引导读者从新颖的角度入手,在不知不觉中习得英语知识。

作者简介

  扬歌,本名杨国明,1956年生,英语老师,从事高中英语教育30年。在教学之余,他勤于英语书籍写作和翻译,著有30多部作品,包括《一生能有几次选择》、《不怕NG只要ING》等。

目录

Part I Food & Plants

What kind of fruit is never alone?

What kind of fruit can you never tell a secret?

Where do we find mangoes?

What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple?

What kind of pie can’t you eat?

On your birthday, what is the easiest to eat?

What kind of cake is not good to eat?

What is a sculptors ’favorite cake?

What vegetable can plumbers fix?

What tree does everyone carry in his or her hand?

What is the best flower to give in cold winter?

What is it that you throw away the outside of,cook the inside, then eat the outside, and throw away the inside?

Why doesnt ’the corn like the farmer?

If a farmer raises corn in sunny days, what does he raise in rainy days?

Why did the farmer bury the eggs?

What kind of flower can't you pick?



Part II Animals

Why are alligators such great gardeners?

Why would you not like to play cards with a cat?

What animal has the highest intelligence?

What animals need to be oiled?

What animal likes to eat a female relative?

What animal takes part in baseball games?

What two animals go everywhere you go?

What kind of horses frighten ranchers?

Why do cats like to get near a computer?

What kind of animal used to open the locks of a monastery on Monday?

What reptile can a wizard most easily turn into?

What animal is the strongest in a game?

What dogs are so bad at playing hide-and-seek?

What animals are weight watchers?

What do pigs put in their hair?

What did the beaver say to the tree?

Why does a bat fight when his friends ask him to do

something?

What kind of bat is not nocturnal?



Part III Birds, Fish & Insects

What bird is always sad?

What bird is the biggest coward?

What bird is found in your throat?

What bird can lift the most?

What is a ghost’s favorite bird?

Why does a chickens ’or a ducks ’compliment become an insult?

Why do fish never play computer games?

What fish should be able to say “meow”?

What kind of fish comes out at night?

What are the giants and elephants in common?

What animal hurts more than a giraffe with a sore throat?

Why did my father throw the butter into the sky?

What will it become if you throw a dragon out of the window?

Why are bees happy when they get married?

What bug dose well in school?

Where do moths dance?


Part Ⅳ Time & Dates

What time is it when ten lions are chasing one zebra?

What time will the teacher give out 200 pencils to 40 students?

What time is it when a pizza is divided among four persons?

Why did the clock call the veterinarian?

What has a hand but can’t scratch itself?

Which part of a watch was used by someone else?

What did the clock say at noon?

What day do chickens hate most?

Why are Saturday and Sunday the strongest days?

Where does Wednesday come after Thursday?

In what month do dogs bark less?

What day of the year is a command?

Some months have 31 days, and some have 30. How many have 28?

What’s the secret message: abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz?


PartⅤ Places

What country can play the best basketball?

In what country will you be frozen to death?

In what country are their people always shaking their heads?

In what country do people often accidentally say some four-letter word?

What country is the most slippery?

In what country do people always want to eat something?

On Thanksgiving Day, what country is almost scared to death?

What country can be hot and cold at the same time?

To what country do bow ties go on vacation?

In what country are people always in a hurry?

In what country are there no housewives?

Why is there more honey in Zimbabwe than in Brazil?

What did Mississippi sip?

What state in America is round at both ends and high in the middle?

Where is the biggest pencil in the world?

What is the most colorful state in America?

If the black house is on the left side and the brown house is on the right side, where is the white house?

what city in Japan can play very good basketball?

Which part of Paris is in England?

If an egg came floating down the Tamsui River, where did it come from?


PartⅥ Jobs & Sports

What man is strong enough to hold up a car with one hand?

What am I if I am always in the water?

To whom does every man take off his hat?

What do two asses do when they get in?

Why did the watchmaker get a promotion?

Why dont ’people like to be friends with fishermen?

What has eighteen legs and catches flies in the field?

Why is Cinderella never on any baseball team?

What player on a baseball team pours lemonade?

Why didnt ’one boy cross home plate when the team had 45 hits?

Where does a hit and run happen?

Why do golfers wear two pairs of pants?

What does a basketball player do when he gets hot?

Why was Cinderella not good at football?


PartⅦ Letters & Numbers

What comes in late and never early?

Who is the happiest person in the world?

Why is the letter T like an island?

What is the difference between here and there?

Where will you find the center of gravity?

What can you see in the middle of the sea and the ocean?

Why is the letter A like a flower?

What comes at the beginning of end, at the end of time, twice in a week and once in a year?

What becomes taller when you add two letters to it?

Why did a house with the TO LET sign become stinky?

What three letters make everything work?

What two letters spell jealousy?

What is the ten-letter word that starts with G-A-S?

Why is the letter B like a fire?

How do you make bears listen?

When does a B come after U?

Why should girls avoid the letter C?

Why is the letter D like a naughty boy?

Why is the letter T important to a stick insect?

How can you make a witch itch?

Of all the English words, what is the longest one?

Why should we worry when GNP increases?

Why should you avoid being a VIP?

Why do the initials RAF embarrass British Royal Air Force?

Why is six afraid of seven?

What is the word with five letters that will have six left after you take away two?

If two is company and three is none, what are four and five?

What odd number is even without the ‘ s ’?


PartⅧ Others

What kind of house weighs least?

What is an autobiography?

What subject is the sweetest?

What do you call a sleeping bull?

What kind of key can’t open locks but kicks?

What kind of bow will you not tie?

What family should win the weight-lifting championship?

If all of the cars in the U.S. were pink, what would it become?

Where do Eskimos hide their money?

Where do frogs sit?

When is a door not a door?

Why is the sky so high?

Which runs faster: heat or cold?

When is a store like a boat?

Why does a window squeak?

Why are riddles unanswered like a party that no one comes to?

Why can’t a bicycle stand up by itself?

What has four wheels and flies?

What did Sailor Sam say to Sailor Tom in the middle of the desert?

What is the difference between illegal and unlawful?

Why is a river rich?

Why are bald men always so cheerful?

What make of cellular phone should you have with you in the battlefield?

What is the worst weather for rats and mice?



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我通常对这类所谓的“益智”书籍抱持着一种谨慎的态度,因为很多时候它们要么过于简单,让人觉得浪费时间,要么就是逻辑跳跃太大,根本无法跟上思路。然而,这本书的巧妙之处在于它找到了一个非常微妙的平衡点。它不像那些枯燥的逻辑谜题那样需要大量的背景知识或者复杂的数学计算,更多的是考验你对日常语言的灵活运用和对事物本质的洞察力。有些题目初看之下,你会立刻被引导到一个错误的思维定势中,但当你放下预设,换一个角度重新审视时,那个“啊哈!”的瞬间来得特别及时和令人满足。这种思维的突然开窍,比解开一个复杂的公式题带来的愉悦感要来得更直接、更富有乐趣。它确实在潜移默化中训练了我的横向思维能力,让我学会了不要被字面意思所束缚。

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这本书的装帧设计非常吸引人,封面色彩明亮,那种复古又带着点俏皮的插画风格立刻抓住了我的眼球。内页的纸张质量也挺上乘的,印刷清晰,看着很舒服,长时间阅读也不会觉得眼睛疲劳。我特别喜欢它那种“轻盈”的感觉,拿在手里感觉就像是随时可以带出门,在通勤或者等待的时候随手翻阅一下,不会有那种厚重书籍带来的压力感。排版上,作者似乎很注重读者的体验,字体大小适中,行距也处理得恰到好处,使得整个版面看起来干净利落,阅读起来一气呵成,很少出现需要费力去寻找阅读焦点的情况。光是看着这本书的实体,就觉得心情会跟着明亮起来,感觉它不仅仅是一本书,更像是一个精心准备的小礼物,让人爱不释手。这绝对是那种你会忍不住想在咖啡馆里拿出来展示一下的书籍,设计感十足,让人对里面的内容充满了期待。

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如果非要说一个可以改进的地方,那就是我希望这本书的后续版本可以增加一些与时俱进的新鲜元素。虽然经典的谜题总是经久不衰,但偶尔加入一些反映当代科技、网络文化或者社会现象的题目,或许能让体验更加立体和新鲜。不过,即便如此,这本书作为入门级的思维训练工具,已经达到了极高的水准。它没有虚张声势地承诺能让你瞬间变聪明,而是实实在在地提供了一套有趣且有效的思维工具箱。它教会我的最重要的一课是:很多时候,问题的答案就在我们身边,只是我们习惯于戴着一副有色眼镜去看待世界。这是一次非常值得的“脑力投资”,它带来的不仅仅是短暂的乐趣,更是一种思维习惯的优化。

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我试着把这本书推荐给身边不同年龄段的朋友,发现它的受众群体比我想象的要广泛得多。我有一个正在上高中的侄女,她觉得那些题目很有挑战性,但又不会难到让她产生挫败感,反而激发了她去主动思考的兴趣。而我的一些年长的同事,他们则在怀旧这种传统的智力挑战形式,认为这比沉迷于电子设备更有益于头脑的活跃度。有趣的是,即便是那些英语水平并不是特别拔尖的朋友,也能通过上下文的提示和对常见词汇的理解,大致摸索出题目的意图,这一点说明书中的语言设计是相对友好的,没有设置过多的专业壁垒。这种跨越年龄和语言熟练度的适应性,使得它成为一个绝佳的家庭共享阅读材料,可以引发有趣的讨论和竞争。

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说实话,我买这本书的初衷更多是想找点乐子,希望在工作压力大的时候能用来放松一下大脑,缓解一下紧绷的神经。而这本书在这方面表现得相当出色。它的幽默感是那种非常微妙的、带有文化底蕴的幽默,而不是那种低俗的笑话堆砌。很多时候,当你终于想通一个谜题的答案时,你会忍不住笑出声来,那种笑声不是因为题目本身有多好笑,而是因为你被自己的思维定式“愚弄”了。这种自嘲式的轻松感,正是现代人急需的。我发现自己开始用一种更玩味的态度去看待生活中的一些小细节,也许生活中的很多难题,也只是缺少了一个巧妙的“脑筋急转弯”式的切入点。这本书简直是“心灵SPA”级别的存在。

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好,十分满意!

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与网上描述的一样,印刷质量不错,正版标准。

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六年级的孩子能看懂了

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没事看看,教学中可能会用到~

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好。。。(虽然只有一个字,却是惊天地,泣鬼神,前无古人,后无来者,破天荒的,不拘一格,妙笔生辉的点睛之作。简简单单一个“好”字,包含了中华5000年的文化精髓!深刻表达了评论者对产品的爱。本评论不仅完美的配合了产品的宣传主题,而且通俗易懂,朗朗上口。使看客一目了然,透彻人心。具有快、准、狠,三大特点。)

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好。。。(虽然只有一个字,却是惊天地,泣鬼神,前无古人,后无来者,破天荒的,不拘一格,妙笔生辉的点睛之作。简简单单一个“好”字,包含了中华5000年的文化精髓!深刻表达了评论者对产品的爱。本评论不仅完美的配合了产品的宣传主题,而且通俗易懂,朗朗上口。使看客一目了然,透彻人心。具有快、准、狠,三大特点。)

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不错。。。。。。。

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也是看到了英语世界的脑洞,有些确实需要一点力气才能理解

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10个字就有京豆:送货员态度好,速度快,东西正。

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