13. The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am."
13、英语里最短的完整句子是“I am”。
14. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat" meaning "the king is helpless".
14、象棋里“将军”这个词来源于波斯语“Shah Mat”,意思是“国王束手无策”。
15. The longest English word without a true vowel is "rhythm".
15、英语里最长的没有元音字母的单词是“rhythm”。
16. The only planet not named after a god is our own, Earth.
16、唯一一个不以神的名字命名的行星是我们地球。
17.We can find 10 words in the 7-letter word "therein" without rearranging any of its letters: the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
17、从“therein”这个由七个字母组成的单词里,能不换字母顺序而找出十个单词:the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
18.The "QWERTY keyboard" gains its name from the fact that its first 6 letter keys are Q, W, E, R, T and Y. On early typewriters the keys were arranged in such a way as to minimize the clashing of the mechanical rods that carried the letters.
18.“QWERTY”键盘是以这种键盘的头六个字母命名的。人们还在用打字机的时候,这么安排字母顺序是为了减小印有字母的机械杆撞到一起的情况。
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