Riddles¹ (4)

1.Q: Who is closer to you, your mom or your dad?

A: Mom is closer, because dad is farther.

　

2.Q: Can you go to the cinema with your watch broken?

A: Of course not, for I don't have the time.

   I don't have the time有两种理解：1。我没有时间；2。我没戴表或是我的表坏了，不知道时间。


3.Q: Why is the comet² like Micky Mouse?

A: It's a star with a tail.

   tail:（动物的）尾巴；彗（星）尾


4.Q: What's the largest room in the world?

A: The room for improvement.

   room：房间；空间，余地


5.Q: What's the poorest bank in the world?

A: The river bank.

   bank：银行；堤岸


6.Q: When is coffee like the surface of the earth?

A: When it's ground.

   ground地面，也是grind磨碎、碾碎的过去分词形式


7.Q: What month do soldiers hate?

A: March.

   march:行军


8.Q: When is a person not a person?

A: When he is a little cross.

   cross:恼火，烦恼；十字架


9.Q: When is a door not a door?

A: When it's ajar.

   ajar门虚掩，音似a jar

　

10.Q: When are boys not boys?

A: When they are bare-footed.

   bear-footed 赤脚，音似bear-footed，脚和熊一样


11.Q: When is a clock dangerous?

A: When it runs down the stairs and strikes one.

   strike one 另一个意思是：击中一个人

　

12.Q: Why is tennis so noisy?

A: Each player raises a racket.

   racket （网球等）球拍；喧哗，喧闹

   raise a racket大吵大闹

　

13.Q: If a cabbage and a carrot raced, which one would win?

A: The cabbage, because it's always ahead.

   a head of cabbage一颗卷心菜

　

14.Q: How many feet are there in a yard?

A: It depends on how many people stand in the yard.

   feet英尺；脚

   yard院子；码

　

15.Q: When are people like glasses?

A: When they make spectacles⁴ of themselves.

   make a spectacle³ of oneself使自己出丑，出洋相

　

16.Q: What beam is lighter⁵ than all the other beams?

A: Lightbeam.

　

17.Q: What animal eats with its tail?

A: All animals do. No one takes off its tail while eating.

   with用……做事；带着，有……

　

18.Q: How can you make a slow horse fast?

A: Don't give it anything to eat for a while.

   fast快的；绝食

　

19.Q: What is heavier in summer than in winter?

A: Traffic to the beach.

   heavy重的；交通量大的，繁忙的

　

20.Q: What clothing is always sad?

A: Blue jeans.

   blue兰色的；伤感的

　

21.Q: How many legs do horses have?

A: Six legs--forelegs in front and two in back

   forelegs前腿，音似four legs

　

22.Q: When are people smartest?

A: When it's sunny, because everything's brighter then.

   bright明亮；聪明

　

23.Q: I have a tree in my hand. What kind of tree is it?

A: It's a palm.

   palm棕榈树；手掌

　

24.Q: Can you explain what is free speech?

A: Your talking on someone else's phone.

   free自由的，免费的

　

25.Q: If the green house is on the right side of the road, and the ed house is on the left side of the road, where is the white house?

A: In Washington, D.C.