Riddles (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有兩種理解：1。我沒有時間；2。我沒戴表或是我的表壞了，不知道時間。


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

A: It's a star with a tail.

   tail:（動物的）尾巴；彗（星）尾


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

A: The room for improvement.

   room：房間；空間，余地


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

A: The river bank.

   bank：銀行；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、碾碎的過去分詞形式


7.Q: What month do soldiers hate?

A: March.

   march:行軍


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

A: When he is a little cross.

   cross:惱火，煩惱；十字架


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

A: When it's ajar.

   ajar門虛掩，音似a jar

　

10.Q: When are boys not boys?

A: When they are bare-footed.

   bear-footed 赤腳，音似bear-footed，腳和熊一樣


11.Q: When is a clock dangerous?

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

   strike one 另一個意思是：擊中一個人

　

12.Q: Why is tennis so noisy?

A: Each player raises a racket.

   racket （網球等）球拍；喧嘩，喧鬧

   raise a racket大吵大鬧

　

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一顆卷心菜

　

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

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

   feet英尺；腳

   yard院子；碼

　

15.Q: When are people like glasses?

A: When they make spectacles of themselves.

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

　

16.Q: What beam is lighter 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；帶著，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；絕食

　

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蘭色的；傷感的

　

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；聰明

　

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

A: It's a palm.

   palm棕櫚樹；手掌

　

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

A: Your talking on someone else's phone.

   free自由的，免費的

　

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.