书城外语课外英语-智力谜语(双语版)
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第1章 食物篇

英汉对照谜语1

A red maiden is sitting in a green summerhouse.

If you squeeze her she will cry,

And her tears are as red as blood,

But yet her heart is made of stone.

红姑娘,坐绿房,

捏她就把眼泪淌;

她的眼泪红似火,

却以石头为心脏。

Cherry (樱桃)

英汉对照谜语2

As I was walking down the lane,

I met my sister Mary Ann;

I knocked off her head,sucked her blood,

And let her body stand.

当我正在过小巷,

遇见一位美娇娘;

揪下脑袋喝她血,

身体放在路中央。

A bottle of wine (一瓶葡萄酒)

英汉对照谜语3

As I went down the country road,

I met old Granny Gray.

I ate her meat and sucked her blood,

And throw her skin away.

当我走在田野上,

遇见一位老大娘;

吃她肉来喝她血,

皮肤扔在一边厢。

A water melon (西瓜)

英汉对照谜语4

Flour of England,fruit from Spain,

Met together in a shower of rain;

Put in a bag and tied with a string,

Tell me this riddle and I’ll give you a ring.

西班牙果英国面,

大雨之中来相见;

放在袋里用绳绑,

猜出谜来我掏钱。

Plum pudding (葡萄干布丁)

英汉对照谜语5

HumptyDumpty sat on a wall,

HumptyDumpty had a great fall;

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,

Couldn’t put HumptyDumpty together again.

胖墩坐在墙头上,

跌了一个大跟头,

千军万马齐出动,

也难再把全尸收。

An egg (蛋)

英汉对照谜语6

I have a little house which I live in all alone,

Without doors,without windows,

And if I want to go out,

I have to break through the wall.

我有一小屋,

独自一人住;

没门没窗户,

只好破墙出。

An egg (蛋)

英汉对照谜语7

In marble walls as white as milk,

Lined with skin as soft as silk.

Within a fountain crystal clear,

A golden apple doth appear.

No doors there are to this stronghold,

Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.

周围乳白理石墙,

内罩轻柔丝罗帐;

一汪清澈泉水里,

金色苹果躺中央;

通向堡垒没有门,

盗贼破墙偷宝藏。

An egg (蛋)

英汉对照谜语8

It has eyes,yet cannot see,

It is useful as food,

A skin covers its every part,

It is neither sheep nor tree.

有眼没有珠,

用来做食物;

身体皮包住,

不是羊和树。

A potato (土豆)

英汉对照谜语9

Midst numbers round I spy’d a beauty fair.

More charming that her sisters were:

With blushing cheek she tempting of me stood,

At last I cropt her bloom and suck’d her blood,

Sweet meat she was,but neither flesh nor bone,

Yet in her tender heart she had a stone.

有一美娇娃,

姐妹不如她;

红红圆脸颊,

一口可吞下;

汁多肉又甜,

心中有疙瘩。

A cherry (樱桃)

英汉对照谜语10

My fatherland is Arabia,

Though in England they roast me brown.

I’m ground up inside a mill,

And tortured with scalding water.

And then they pour milk over me,

And drink me at their leisure.

故乡远在阿拉伯,

烤成棕色在英国;

粉身碎骨在石磨,

赴汤蹈火考验多;

一勺牛奶头上泼,

闲暇时候喝掉我。

Coffee (咖啡)

英汉对照谜语11

On the hill there is a green house,

And in the green house there’s a white house,

And in the white house there’s a red house,

And in the red house,

There are a lot of little black and white babies.

山上有座绿房子,

里面有座白房子,

进去还有红房子,

许多黑白小孩子,

住在这座红房子。

A water melon (西瓜)

英汉对照谜语12

Riddle cum riddle cum rawley,

Petticoat bound in scarlet,

Stone in the middle,

Stick in the tail,

Tell me this riddle

Without any fail.

样子真奇妙,

身穿大红袍;

有核在中间,

尾巴往上翘;

猜猜这个谜,

保证能知道。

A cherry (樱桃)

英汉对照谜语13

Riddle me,riddle me,rotrotrote!

A little wee man.In red coat!

A staff in his hand and a stone in his throat;

If you’ll tell me this riddle,I’ll give you a groat.

小东西,挂树梢,

身穿一件小红袄;

手拿一根小木棍,

一粒石子口中咬。

A cherry (樱桃)

英汉对照谜语14

Round as an apple,

Yellow as gold,

With more things in it,

Than you’re years old.

圆得像果子,

黄得像金子;

里面有啥子,

多得没法子。

A pumpkin (南瓜)

英汉对照谜语15

Softer than porridge,

Harder than bread,

It is always in the presence of the king;

And they are not on earth,

But must partake of it,

And they cannot do well without it.

它比稀粥软,

它比面包硬,

国王也喜欢;

稀粥没法顶,

面包没法换,

离开它不行。

Water (水)

英汉对照谜语16

Stouthearted men with naked knives,

Beset my house with all their crew;

If I had never so many lives,

I must be slain and eaten,too.

一群硬汉持钢刀,

一心把我房屋捣;

要不是我福分高,

早已送命被吃掉。

A oyster (牡蛎)

英汉对照谜语17

There is a white egg in a green house,

And if you break open the house

You can take the egg out,

But I tell you to a man,no bird ever laid it.

一个小白蛋,

住在绿客栈;

破门取出来,

不是蛋和卵。

Broad beans (扁豆)

英汉对照谜语18

There was a green house,

Inside the green house there was a white house,

Inside the white house there was a red house,

Inside the red house there were a lot of little black babies.

有座绿房子,

内有白房子,

里面红房子,

养有黑孩子。

A water melon (西瓜)