[英语考试]2010职称英语无翻译.doc

1.English is a Crazy Language 英语是一门疯狂的语言 1.Lets face it-English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins werent invented in England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads,which arent sweet,are meat. 2.We take English for granted. 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. And why it is that writers write but fingers dont fing,grocers dont groce and hammers dont ham? If the pl