娃不爱学英语（来点有意思的小知识吧。）
偶尔在墙外看到一些无用而有趣的小知识，搬来这里给大家看看。
1. English actually originates from what is now called north west Germany and the Netherlands.
英语实际上起源于现在所谓的德国西北和荷兰。
2. The phrase “long time no see” is believed to be a literal translation of a Native American or Chinese phrase as it is not grammatically correct.
人们认为“好久不见”是对美国原住民或中文短语的字面翻译，因为它在语法上不正确。
3. “Go!” is the shortest grammatically correct sentence in English.
“ Go！”是英文中语法上最短的句子。
4. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
蝴蝶的原名是flutterby。
5. About 4,000 words are added to the dictionary each year.
每年大约有4,000个单词被添加到词典中。
6. The two most common words in English are I and you.
英文中最常见的两个词是我和你。
7. 11% of the entire English language is just the letter E.
整个英语中有11％是字母E。
8. The English language is said to be one of the happiest languages in the world – oh, and the word ‘happy’ is used 3 times more often than the word ‘sad’!
英语被认为是世界上最快乐的语言之一-哦，“快乐”一词的使用频率比“悲伤”一词高3倍！
9. 1/4 of the world’s population speaks at least some English.
世界人口的1/4至少会说一点英语。
10. The US doesn’t have an official language.
美国没有官方语言。
11. It is the only major language that doesn’t have any organization guiding it – as opposed to the French Académie franaise, the Spanish Real Academia Espaola and the German Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung. These organizations are responsible for controlling the evolution of their respective language in terms of usage, vocabulary, and grammar.
与法国的法国法语学院，西班牙的西班牙皇家学术学院和德国的德国德语学院相比，英语是唯一没有任何组织对其进行指导的主流语言。这些组织负责在用法、词汇和语法等方面控制各自语言的发展。
12. The most common adjective used in English is ‘good’.
英语中最常用的形容词是“好”。
13. The most commonly used noun is ‘time’.
最常用的名词是“时间”。
14. The word ‘set’ has the highest number of definitions.
多义词中，“set”一词的含义最多。
15. Month, orange, silver, and purple do not rhyme with any other word.
月份、橙色、银色和紫色与其他任何词都不会押韵。
16. The English language contains a lot of contronyms – words that can have contradictory meanings depending on context.
英语包含许多同调词--这些词可能具有矛盾的含义，其真实意思取决于上下文。比如Sanction，既有制裁又有批准的意思。
17. Over 80% of the information stored on computers worldwide is in English.
全球计算机的信息中有80％以上是以英文形式储存。
18. Words that are used to fill in time when speaking, such as ‘like’ or ‘basically’, are called crutch words (and should best be avoided!)
有些单词是说话时用来过度的，例如“喜欢”或“基本”，被称为拐杖单词，就像中文里的“额”，“那个”，“就是”等。
19. English is the official language of 67 countries.
英语是67个国家/地区的官方语言。
20. 90% of English text consists of just 1000 words.
90％的英文文本仅包含1000个单词。
21. There are 24 different dialects of English in the US.
在美国，有24种不同的英语方言。
22. The word ‘lol’ was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2011.
2011年，“ lol”一词被添加到牛津英语词典。
23. What is known as British accent came to use in and around London around the time of the American Revolution.
美国革命前后，在伦敦及其周边地区开始使用所谓的英国口音。
24. Shakespeare invented many words, such as birthplace, blushing, undress, torture.
莎士比亚发明了许多单词，例如出生地，脸红，宽衣，拷问等等！
25. The word ‘Goodbye’ originally comes from an Old English phrase meaning ‘god be with you’. “再见”一词最初来自古英语，意为“上帝与您同在”。
26. Etymologically, Great Britain means ‘great land of the tattooed’.
从词源上讲，英国的意思是“纹身的大国”。
27. There are seven ways to spell the sound ‘ee’ in English. This sentence contains all of them: ‘He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas’.
有七种方法可以用英语形容发音“ ee”。这句话包含了所有这些内容：“他相信凯撒可以看到人们抓住大海”。
28. Many English words have changed their meaning over time – for example, ‘awful’ used to mean ‘inspiring wonder’ and was a short version of ‘full of awe’, whereas ‘nice’ used to mean ‘silly’
随着时间的推移，许多英语单词的含义都发生了变化，例如，“ awful”曾经表示“鼓舞人心的奇迹”，是“ full awe”的缩写，而“ nice”过去则代表“ silly”。
29. The first English dictionary was written in 1755.
第一本英语词典于1755年编写。
30. The oldest English word that is still in use is ‘town’.
仍在使用的最古老的英语单词是"town"。