英文奇闻（奇闻趣事中英）

（一）--------------------------------------------------------------------------------，下面我们就来说一说关于英文奇闻?我们一起去了解并探讨一下这个问题吧!

英文奇闻

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Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. President to ride in an automobile and then first to fly in an airplane, among many other firsts.

西奥多•罗斯福作为美国总统有许多第一，包括他是第一个乘汽车和第一个乘飞机的总统。

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Albert Einstein, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921, was honored not for his famous theory of relativity published sixteen years earlier, but for his lesser-known work on the photoelectric effect.

艾伯特•爱因斯坦于1921年被授予诺贝尔物理奖，但不是为了奖励他16年前发表的著名的相对论，而是为了不太为人所知的光电效应。

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Pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, was computer-calculated to a million decimal places in 1973 by the French mathematicians Jean Guilloud and Martine Bouyer. The value was published as a 400-page book----very important, and yet surely one of the most boring books in the world.

圆周率，即圆周和直径之比，于1973年由法国数学家让•吉尤和马蒂娜•布耶用计算机算到小数点后100万位。这一结果出版成为400页的书----这是一本非常重要、但肯定是世界上最枯燥无味的书。

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The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.

冰的硬度和混凝土相仿。

The first person to work out the manner in which a telescope handled light according to strict scientific principles was the German astronomer Johann Kepler. His eyesight was so bad, however, that it was useless for him to try to use a telescope himself.

根据严格的科学原理，提出望远镜对光的作用的第一个人是德国天文学家约翰•开普勒。可是他的视力太差，对他本人来说，望远镜没有用处。

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The world's largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and the neighboring Hermitage in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. One has to walk fifteen miles to visit each of the 322 galleries, which house nearly 3 million works of art and archaeological remains.

世界上最大的美术馆是苏联列宁格勒的冬宫及与其毗连的爱尔米塔什博物馆。那里的322个画廊中收藏有近300万件艺术品和文物，参观全部画廊要走15英里。

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Equestrian statues: traditionally when all four of the horse's hooves are on the ground, it signifies that the rider died a natural death. One hoof in the air indicates that he died of wounds sustained in action. If two are raised, it means that the rider was killed on the field of battle.

骑马塑像：根据传统，如果马的四蹄都着地，表明骑手自然死亡；如果马抬起一蹄，表明骑手在战斗中负伤而亡；如果马的双蹄腾空，表明骑手在战斗中身亡。

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Picasso and the poet Max Jacob, down but not out in Paris, shared a bed in turn. Jacob slept at night while Picasso worked, and Picasso slept by day when Jacob worked as a novelty-shop clerk. On arising in the morning, Jacob often would have to walk on a floor carpeted with drawings. Later, Jacob's footprints had to be removed by art experts.

毕加索和诗人雅科布在巴黎近郊轮流睡一张床。晚上雅科布睡觉，毕加索工作；白天毕加索睡觉，雅科布在一家玩具饰物商店当职员。雅科布早上起床时常常不得不走过铺满图画的房间。后来不得不请美术专家除掉雅科布留在一幅幅画上的脚印。

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There were at least fifty-two musicians in the family of Johann Sebastian Bach.

约翰•赛巴斯蒂安•巴赫家族中，至少有52位音乐家。

Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.

罗马塑像的头是可以同身体分开的，这样就可以将原来的头取下换上一个。

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Jupiter is the largest planet, and it has the shortest day. Although Jupiter has a circumference of 280,000 miles, compared with Earth's 25,000, Jupiter manages to make one turn in nine hours and fifty-five minutes.

木星是（太阳系中）最大的行星，但木星的一天却最短。尽管木星的圆周有280,000英里，而地球只有25,000英里，木星每9小时55分自转一圈。