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1．English is a Crazy Language英语是一种疯狂的语言 1．Let’s face it——English is a crazy language. 让我们接受现实吧——英语是一种疯狂的语言。 There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger；neither apple nor pine in pineapple．茄子(eggplant，字面意为鸡蛋植物)里并没有鸡蛋，汉堡包(hamburger，字面意为火腿火饼)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。 English muffins weren’t invented in England nor French fries in France．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。 Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads，which aren’t sweet，are meat． “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. 我们理所当然地接受了英语的一切。 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．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。 And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing．grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? 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就不能成为各自相对应的动词呢? If the plural of tooth is teeth，why isn’t the plural of booth beeth ? 如果牙齿的复数是teeth，那为什么售货亭的复数不是beeth? If you have one goose, two geese, why not one moose, two meese, or one index, two indices?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? 如果你赔偿时只能赔偿复数不能赔偿单数，这足不是很莫名其妙?你可以梳理历史的复数编年史，为什么却不能复习某一个单个的编年史? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?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? 如果教师教学是taught，那为什么传教士传教不是praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables，what does a humanitarian eat?如果素食主义者(vegetarian)吃蔬菜(vegetables)，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 t