1. What has four eyes but cannot see?
2. What do vampires do at midnight?
3. What's the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space; the beginning of end, and the end of every place?
4. What can you catch but cannot throw?
5. What is deaf and dumb but always tells the truth?
6. What did one penny say to the other?
7. What has a tongue but cannot talk?
8. What has ears but cannot hear?
9. What has teeth but cannot eat?
10. What is yours but is used by others more than by yourself?
11. What goes through a door but never comes in or goes out?
12. What runs all around the ground but never moves?
13. What can go through water but never get wet?
14. What kind of leaves doesn’t fall in Autumn?
15. What kind of house weights least?
16. What kinds of keys are too large for your pocket?
17. Where do ghost like to swim?
18. Why did the ghost go to the astrologer?
19. Was Dracula ever married?
20. Why did the policeman arrest the ghost?
21. Why did the pickle close its eyes?
22. What starts with "e" ends with "e" and contains only one letter
23. If you were pushed down a flight of stairs, what would you fall against?
24. What has eyes but can't see
25. What has fingers but can't type?
26. What has ears but can't hear?
27. What has arms but can't hug?
28. What has a head and a foot but no body?
29. What has a mouth but never smiles?
30. What has a face but no head?
31. What has leaves but isn't a tree?
32. What has eyes but can't see?
33. What has legs but can't walk?
34. There are two rooms - one room with three light bulbs, the other with three light switches. Each switch turns on one light. If you can only travel to each room once, how can you tell which switch controls which light?
35. Because cigars cannot be entirely smoked, a hobo who collects cigar butts can make a cigar to smoke out of every 5 butts that he finds. Today, he has collected 25 cigar butts. How many cigars will he be able to smoke?
36. If, having only one match, on a freezing winter day, you entered a room that contained a lamp, a kerosene heater, and a wood burning stove, which should you light first?
37. Make a five-letter word from these letters:
H, I, J, K, L, M, N AND O
38. What does this represent?
ENERGY
EQUALS
MASSTI
MESTHE
SPEEDO
FLIGHT
答案:
1. Mississippi
2. Take a coffin break
3. The letter "e"
4. A Cold
5. A mirror
6. Together we make more cents.
7. A shoe
8. Corn
9. A comb
10. Your name
11. A keyhole
12. A fence
13. Sunlight
14. The leaves of the book
15. The lighthouse
16. Donkeys, monkeys, and turkeys
17. In the death see
18. Because he wants to see his horoscope
19. No, he was a bat-chelor
20. Because the ghost did not have a hunting licence.
21. Because it sees the salad dressing.
22. An envelope
23. Fall against your will
24. A potato
25. Gloves
26. Corn
27. Chair
28. Bed
29. River
30. Clock
31. Book
32. Potatoes
33. Table
34. First -- Turn on one for a long time, then turn it off and turn on a second one. Run to the next room. The one that’s off and warm is the first, the one that's on is the second, and the last is the cold, off one.
35. 6
36. The match of course!
37. Water (H2O)
38. E = MC2 ("Energy equals mass times the speed of light" SQUARED (looks better on paper - more like a square)
希望能解决您的问题。
翻译几个脑筋几转弯。
问题：
1.What
gets
larger，the
more
you
take
away？什么东西你拿走越多，反而越大？
2.What
goes
on
four
legs
in
the
morning，on
two
at
noon，and
on
three
in
the
evening？什么走路开始用四条腿，后来用两条腿，最后用三条腿？
3.What
do
we
get
if
we
cross
a
woodpecker
with
a
homing
pigeon？把一只啄木鸟和一只识途的鸽子融合在一起，会得到什么？
4.Where
does
afternoon
come
before
morning
in
the
world？世界上哪个地方下午比早上先到？
答案：
1.Ahole.洞
2.People.They
crawled
when
they
were
babies
and
walked
with
two
legs
before
they
had
to
rely
on
a
crutch
in
old
age.
是人，他们刚生下来的时候用四肢爬行，后来用双腿走路，老年时又不得不依靠拐杖走。
3.A
bird
that
knocks
on
the
door
when
delivering
message旦弧测旧爻搅诧些超氓s.将得到一只送信时会敲门的鸟。
4.In
the
dictionary.在字典里。
1.Why does the conductor cut a hole in your railway ticket?
To let you pass.
为什么检票员要在你的车票上打个洞？
为了让你通过。
2.What relation is a door to a doorstep?
A step farther.
门和门口的台阶是什么关系？
继父（本意是一步之遥，farther与father同音，一语双关）
3.What is the best way to keep fish from smelling?
Cut off their noses.
不让鱼有异味的最好的方法是什么？
割掉它们的鼻子。
4.Why is the letter "A" like twelve o'clock?
Because it comes in the middle of the day.
为什么字母A象12点时的时钟？
因为它总是在每天的中间来。（此处喻指信件是每天中午送达的，letter既做字母，又作信件讲，而“A”like也可以被看作alike。
英文的谜语类翻译成中文有时候是无法体会的，就象中文的谜语译成英文没法让人明白一样。只能自己去感受了。 这四个急转弯我是想通了，楼主有什么不明白的，可以问我。