书城外语谜语绕口令英语
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第10章 中元音训练

Eloquent elephants telephoned elegant elephants.

雄辩的大象给优雅的大象打电话。

(eloquent adj.雄辨的;elegant adj.优雅的。)

Winter s thunder,summer s wonder.

冬天响雷,夏天歉收。

I correctly recollect Rebecca MacGregor s reckoning.

我准确地记起丽贝卡·麦格列柯的账单。

Tell Father to purchase better butter at another grocer s.

告诉爸爸到另一家杂货店去买好黄油。

The teacher s younger brother s daughter is a doctor and she never orders her father and mother to work at the counter in winter.

这个老师的小弟的女儿是位医生,她从不让父母冬天去站柜台。

The first person in a dirty shirt works in the third firm.

穿一件脏衬衫的第一个人在第三家公司工作。

The surly merchant twirled his moustache as he purchased the first thirty pearls.

这位粗暴的商人购买第一批三十粒珍珠时捻动着他的胡须。

(twirl v.捻弄,拈(须);purchase v.购买。)