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英语的脑筋急转弯
一、意“转” 这是最常见的脑筋急转弯形式，其
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英语的脑筋急转弯
一、意“转” 这是最常见的脑筋急转弯形式，其窍门就是回答时要打破常规思维，对问句的意思进行多角度的“非常规”联想。例如： Questions：
1．Why are dogs afraid to sunbathe?(狗为什么害怕日光浴?)
2．Why are politicians no longer con-cerned with snowball fights?(政客们为什么不再关注打雪仗了?)
3．What"s the longest word in the world?(世界上最长的单词是什么?)
4．An old woman has lived in one-story house before．Her body is very short．Afterwards，she moves into a big building and lives in the ninth story．However，when she comes back home each time，she always takes an elevator to the sixth story and gets off，then she walks to the ninth story．Why?(有位老妇人，从前住平房。她个子非常矮。后来她搬进了一个很高的楼里，住在第九层，但是每次回家，她总是乘电梯到第六层就下来，然后走到第九层。为什么?)
5．What will you break once you say it?(什么东西一说出来就打破了?)
6．Who works only one day every year?(谁一年只工作一天?)
Answers：
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1．They don"t want to be hot-dog．(因为它们不想变成热狗。)
2．The cold war is over．(冷战结束了。)
3．Smiles．Because there"s a mile between the letter“s”．(微笑。因为两个“s”间有一英里长。)
4．Because she was too short to press the seventh，eighth and ninth buttons．(她太矮了，够不着第七、八、九层的按钮，只能够着第六层的。)
5．Silence．(沉默。)
6．Santa Claus．(圣诞老人。)
二、音“转”
音“转”，即通过一音多义制造脑