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You can't go to school late
You mustn't speak loudly in the library
You should finish you homework before playing the computer games
You can't throw away the rubbish everywhere
You shouldn't smoke here
You should obey the rules
1、According to a research project at Cambridge Uiversity, it doesn't matter what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place. This is because the human mind does not read every letter 。
劍橋大學的研究表明：單詞中字母的順序如何不重要，重要的是第一個和最后一個字母的位置 。這是因為大腦在閱讀時不會讀到所有字母 。
2、'WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW'. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence 。（我看到的是一輛車還是一只貓）這是英語中唯一一句反過來念還是一樣的句子 。

3、"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you" 。英語單詞“Goodbye”來自于“God bye”，原意是“上帝與你同在” 。
4、The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog."uses every letter of the alphabet！（這只敏捷的棕色狐貍跳過了一只懶狗）這句話用到了字母表中的所有字母！5、"Go", is the shortest complete sentence in the English language 。“Go”是英語中最短的完整句子 。
6、The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl 。單詞“onion”（洋蔥）來自于拉丁詞“unio”，意思是大珍珠 。
7、The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service' 。單詞“tips”（小費）實際上是“To Insure Prompt Service”（保障快捷的服務）的首字母縮寫！8、The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb 。
詞組“rule of thumb”（經驗法則），是從一條古老的英國法律中來的，即：不能用超過大拇指粗細的東西打老婆 。9、The longest word in the English language ！英語中最長的單詞是“”（硅酸鹽沉著?。?！10、More people in China speak English than in the United States 。
會說英語的中國人比會說英語的美國人還多 。11、The word "listen" contains the same letters as"silent" 。
單詞“listen”（聽）和“silent”（安靜的）用到了一樣的字母 。12、Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering 。
胡佛真空吸塵器在英國曾經非常流行，到現在很多人還把“vacuuming”（吸塵）說成“hoovering”（胡佛ing…） 。13、Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards 。

“Stressed”（壓力）倒過來拼就是“Desserts”（點心） 。14、The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and'Q' is the least used！英語中使用最多的字母是“E”，用得最少的是“Q” 。
15、Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", whichcontains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E! 。
3 aspects you must focus on to get better in ChineseTones Individual Characters Sentence Order1. Tones Learning tones well is the key to speaking any dialect of Chinese, and Mandarin is no exception. Drill them into your head. When you are unsure or have temporarily forgotten of how to produce certain tones, practice until you have gotten them right again. Whenever you learn a new word or character, make sure you know the tones that go with it. Relentlessly learn the tones for all new Chinese words and all the tones for old words that you have forgotten. It is easier for a Chinese learner to guess what you are saying than a Chinese person To a beginner or even intermediate learner of Chinese, tones seem less important than they actually are. We figure, “if I get everything else right but the tones wrong, Chinese people will understand what I am saying”. If this is what you think, though, you are wrong. To the typical Chinese person, tones are a more fundamental part of language than non-tonal phonemic elements (sounds). Chinese people often understand each other perfectly well even when the non-tonal sounds are wrong but the tones are right. The opposite is not true. Making significant mistakes with tones totally throws off most Chinese people. This is hard for a speaker of a non-tonal language to really understand. But it's true. If you want to learn Chinese well, you must focus on tones - whether you are learning Mandarin, Cantonese, or any of the hundreds (thousands?) of 'dialects' (other languages) in China. 2. Individual Characters Is it better for you to learn (including their multiple possible meanings and sometimes pronunciations) individual characters than vocabulary? While in the short run, learning words (most words in Chinese are of the two character variety) will speed up your Chinese learning, in the long run, knowing cold the 3000 or so most commonly used characters will allow you to learn new vocabulary at a much faster rate - and you can often guess the meaning of new words instead of looking them up in the dictionary when you already know the various meanings of the individual component characters. This is something that I am not too good at - I rarely learn individual characters, preferring to learn words instead. Yet experience has shown that if you want to learn written Chinese well, focusing more on learning characters individually is the best way to go. And to those who believe that it is more efficient to only study speaking and listening to improve your spoken Chinese - you are right, in the short run. In the long run your speaking ability will trail far behind those who started on the path of becoming literate in Chinese. 3. Sentence Order The last thing to focus on when learning Chinese is the easiest to get right initially, but perhaps one of the hardest to keep straight in your head. Unlike English (which, thanks largely to its many permutations and non-native speakers, can usually be understood no matter how badly one messes up sentence order & grammar), Chinese is a language where sentence order, just like tones, must be correct to be quickly and easily understood. The fact is, most speakers of Chinese are Chinese, and so they are used to hearing people who have spoken Chinese since they were little speak Chinese =) Two things that almost all Chinese people get right most of the time when speaking Chinese are tones and sentence order. So when you mix up the sentence order (usually by putting time in the wrong place), Chinese people get confused. Try not to do this. Chinese grammar is quite simple overall. But it's not very flexible, especially when it comes to sentence order. 。

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