┃1.┃English is a Crazy Language 英语是一门疯狂的语言 1.┃Let's face it-English is a crazy language.┃ There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.┃ English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France.┃ Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.┃ 1.┃让我们接受现实吧--英语是一种疯狂的语言。┃茄子（eggplant，字面意为鸡蛋植物）里并没有鸡蛋，汉堡包（hamburger，字面意为火腿夹饼）里也没有火腿。┃同样，菠萝（pineapple，字面意为松树苹果）里既没有松鼠也没有苹果。┃松饼（English muffin，字面意为英式松饼）并不是英国人发明的，而炸薯条（French fries，字面意为法式油炸食品）也不是法国人的发明。┃“甜肉”（sweetmeat）指的是蜜饯，而“甜面包”（sweetbread）不是甜的，它指的是牛杂碎。┃ 2.┃We take English for granted.┃ But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.┃ And why it is that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?┃ If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?┃ If you have one goose, two geese, why not one moose, two meese,or one index, two indices?┃ 2.┃我们理所当然地接受了英语的一切，但是如果我们分析一下英语中似是而非的情况，我们马上就会发现“快的沙子”（quicksand，流沙，也指陷阱，困境）往往走得很慢，“拳击的圆圈”（boxing rings，拳击场）是方的，“几内亚猪”（guinea pig，天竺鼠）既不是来自几内亚，也不是猪。┃还有，既然名词作家（writers）去掉词尾的rs 就可以成为动词“写作(write）”，那为什么名词“手指”（fingers）、杂货店（grocers）、锤子（hammers）去掉rs就不能成为各自相应的动词呢?┃如果牙齿的复数是teeth，那为什么售货亭的复数不是beeth?┃一只鹅我们用goose，两只鹅用geese，那么，一只驼鹿用moose（单复数同形），两只驼鹿就应该是meese了?┃为什么一条索引是index，两条索引却成...
