生活趣事(英文版)

23 funny life reality

1 Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.

2 Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

3 Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

4 Most lipstick contains fish scales.

5 A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h..

6 More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.

7 The most used letter in the English alphabet is "E", and "Q" is the least used.

8 Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States.

9 One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

10 One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet.

11 Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.

12 The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

13 No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half.

14 Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

15 The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

16 A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off--it dies from starvation.

17 Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed.

18 The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.

19 Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

20 The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times.

21 The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

22 Cat urine glows under a black-light.

23 Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.

∙square[skwεə]video

adj. 平方的；正方形的；直角的；正直的

vt. 使成方形；与…一致vi. 一致；成方形

n. 平方；广场；正方形adv. 成直角地

∙alphabet['ælfəbit]

video

n. 字母表，字母系统；入门，初步

∙strike[straik]video

vi. 打，打击；罢工；敲，敲击；抓；打动；

穿透vt. 打，击；罢工；撞击，冲击；侵

袭；打动；到达n. 罢工；打击；殴打

∙lick[lik]video

vt. 舔；卷过；鞭打vi. 舔；轻轻拍打n. 舔；

打；少许

∙stamp[stæmp]video

n. 邮票；印记；标志；跺脚vt. 铭记；标

出；盖章于…；贴邮票于…；用脚踩踏vi. 跺

脚；捣碎；毁掉

∙lipstick['lipstik]video

n. 口红；唇膏vt. 涂口红vi. 涂口红

∙scale[skeil]video

n. 规模；比例；鳞；刻度；天平；数值范

围vi. 衡量；攀登；剥落；生水垢vt. 测

量；攀登；刮鳞；依比例决定

∙toothbrushe[]video