关于英语的谜语
1. 有关英语单词的谜语
1. What room has no walls, no doors, no windows, and no floors?
A mushroom.(蘑菇)
2. What is smaller than an insect's mouth?
Anything it eats.
3. What large instrument do you carry in your ears?
Drums, that is eardrums.(鼓膜)
4. What's too much for one, just right for two, but nothing at all for three?
A secret.
5. What person tried to make you smile most of the time?
A photographer.
6. What animal has a head like a cat, eyes like a cat, a tail like a cat, but isn't a cat?
A kitten.(小猫)
7. What surprising things happen every 24 hours?
Day breaks, but doesn't fall; night falls, but doesn't break.
8. What can hear you without ears and can answer you without a mouth?
An echo.(回声)
9. What do you know about the kings of France?
They are all dead.
10. What question can you never answer 'yes" to"
Are you asleep?
11. Why do some old people never use glasses?
They must prefer bottles to glasses.
12. Why is the person wearing two coats while painting the house?
Because the instructions on the paint can say "Put on two coats for best results."
13. What two words have thousands of letters in them?
Post office.
14. What do workers do in a clock factory?
They make faces all day.
15. What 5-letter word has 6 left when you take 2 letters away?
Sixty.
16. When do you go as fast as a racing car?
When you are in it.
17. How many sides does a house have?
Two - inside and outside.
18. What never asks any questions but always gets answers?
A doorbell.
19. Where did Columbus stand when he discovered America?
On his feet.
20. When the boy fell into the water, what's the first thing he did?
He got wet first of all.
21. Who isn't your sister and isn't your brother, but is still a child of your mother and father?
I myself.
22. What has teeth but cannot eat?
A comb.
23. What kind of man can raise things without lifting them?
A farmer.
24. Why does time fly?
To get away from all the people who are trying to kill it.
25. Name five days of the week without saying: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
The day before yesterday, yesterday, today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow.
26. What animal eats and drinks with its tail?
All do. No animal takes off its tail when eating and drinking.
27. What has a soft bed but never sleeps, a big mouth but never speaks?
A river.
28. What kind of dog never bite?
A hot dog.
29. Why does the Statue of Liberty stand in New York Harbor?
Because it can't sit down.
30. What did one invisible man say to the other invisible man?
It's nice not to see you again.
31. What wears a cap but has no head?
A bottle.
32. What rises in the morning and waves all day?
A flag.
33. What is an astronomer?(天文学家)?
A night watchman with a college ecation.
34. How can you tell clocks and watches are shy?
Because they always have their hands in front of their faces.
35. What is wind?
Air in a hurry.
36. What comes after the letter "A"?
All the other letters.
37. What starts with a T, ends with a T, and is full of T?
Teapot.
38. What word can you make shorter by adding to it?
Short.
39. What person does every man take his hat off to?
A barber.
40. Why does the boy carry a ladder to the school?
Because he wants to go to high school.
41. What can you swallow that can also swallow you?
Water.
42. What's the difference between a hill and a pill?
A hill is hard to get up and a pill is hard to get down.
43. Why is it useless to send a letter to Washington?
Because he's dead.
44. A doctor and a lawyer loved the same girl. The lawyer went away for a week and gave the girl seven apples before he left. Why?
Because an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
45. What will you do if a man-eating tiger is running after you?
Nothing. Because I'm a woman.
46. What always travels on foot?
A shoe.
47. Where can happiness always be found?
In the dictionary.
48. What is higher without a head than with a head?
A pillow.(枕头)
49. Why don't you advertise for your lost dog?
He can't read.
50. On which side does a bird have the most feathers?
The outside.
51. What is the best thing to keep in hot weather?
Cool!
52. What is never used until it's broken?
An egg.
53. What's a skeleton?(骨架)
It's a lot of bones without the person on them!
54. What is dark but made by light?
A shadow.
55. What can you break with only one word?
Silence.
56. What stays indoors no matter how many times you put it out?
The light.
57. A policeman saw a truck driver going the wrong way down a one-way street, but didn't give him a ticket. Why?
Because the truck driver was walking.
58. Where can milk be best stored?
In a cow.
59. Which can move faster, heat or cold?
Heat, because you can catch cold easily.
60. What's the hardest thing about learning skating?
The ice.
61. What has cities with no houses, rivers without water and forests without trees?
A map.
62. What can be measured but has no length, width or thickness?
The temperature.
63. What makes the Tower of Pisa lean?
It never eats.
64. Why is writing called handwriting?
If people wrote with their feet, we would have to call it footwriting.
65. If there were only thre girls in the world, what do you think they would do?
Two of them would get together ans talk about the other one.
66. How many great men have been born in London?
None. Only babies.
67. When can you have an empty pocket and still have something in it?
When you have a hole in your pocket.
68. The greater it is, the less it can be seen. What is it?
Darkness.
69. The more you take away, the bigger I become. What am I?
A hole.
70. Who may marry many a wife and stay single all of his life?
A priest.(牧师)
2. 关于动物的英语谜语
2.I'm
almost
white,
but
the
fur
of
my
ears,
eye
pits
are
black.
I
live
in
the
wild
forests,I
like
eating
bamboos!
Who
am
I
?
我几乎是白的，但耳朵、眼窝是黑的。我生活在森林里，喜欢吃竹子。我是谁？
（Panda
熊猫）
3.a
cat,eyes
like
a
cat,a
tail
like
a
cat
,but
isn't
a
cat?
眼睛尾巴像只猫,但又不是猫?
（Tiger
老虎）
3. 经典英语谜语大全
What month do soldiers hate? --March (行军)
释义：当兵的不喜欢几月份？
How many feet are there in a yard? --It depends on how many people stand in the yard. (码，院子)
释义：院子里有多少只脚？
Why is an empty purse always the same? --There is change in it. (零钱，变化)
释义：为什么空钱包永远是一样的?
What book has the most stirring chapters? --A cook book. (动人的，搅拌的）
释义：什么书有最动人的章节？
What kind of dog doesn't bite or bark? --Hot dog. (热狗)
释义：什么狗不咬人、不吠叫?
What is the smallest room in the world? --Mushroom. (蘑菇)
释义：世界上最小的房间是什么？
4. 有关英语的谜语
英文谜语同中国谜语一样有着极其悠久的历史，其中最为有名的大概是斯芬克司之“谜”了。“斯芬克司”一词源自希腊语Sphinx，是希腊神话中一个可怕的怪物，它长着女人的头、狮子的身躯，身上还有两只翅膀。传说中，狮身人面的女怪斯芬克司生性残酷无比，常常守在大路口，让过往的行人猜一个谜，猜错了就要被吃掉。有一次，一位国王的儿子被斯芬克司吃掉了，国王一怒之下，发出悬赏：“谁能把它制服，就给他王位。”青年俄狄浦斯(Oedipus)应召前去，很快就道破谜底，斯芬克司便自杀了。这个世界著名的谜语是：What goes on four feet, on two feet, and three, but the more feet it goes on, the weaker it will be.其谜底是Man. Because he crawls first, then walks on two feet, uses a cane when old.因为人在婴儿时用四肢在地上爬行，成人后两腿行走，年老后拄拐杖走路，所以谜底是“人”。这个谜语还可以这样说：What goes on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at sk?
在《圣经·士师记》中有这样一个故事，大力士参孙杀死了一头狮子，后来在狮子的尸体里发现了一群蜜蜂和蜂蜜，于是他就这件事编了一则谜语：Out of the eater came something to eat；/ Out of the strong came something sweet.他让菲利士人猜这个谜语，并允诺如果他们在七天之内给出谜底，就送给他们三十套亚麻布长袍和三十套衣服；如果给不出答案，他们就要送给他这些东西。狡猾的菲利士人让参孙的妻子哄骗参孙说出谜底。在第七天日落之前，菲利士人把答案告诉了参孙：What is sweeter than honey? / What is stronger than a lion?
上面两则有趣的谜语中，谜面的构成方法十分类似，都是采用了描写其特征的方法，英语中这种谜语被称为事物谜，也叫做描述性谜语(descriptive riddles)。事物谜的谜面通常是用比喻、暗示或其他方法来描绘所猜谜底的特征，和汉语中物谜的谜面构成及猜测方法基本相同。举例说明一下：
My fatherland is Arabia,
Though in England they roast me brown.
I'm ground up inside a mill,
And tortured with scalding water,
And then they pour milk over me,
And drink me at their leisure.
谜底是“Coffee”。这个谜语用第一人称自述的手法道出谜面，最后一句则是点睛之笔，使人一下就猜出谜底是某种饮料。
另外一种人们经常见到的英文谜语是字谜(charades)，字谜经常在字母、音节或是整个词的离合上做文章。字谜的谜面通常是前面几句描述谜底单词的某个或某些字母在哪些单词中出现或是不出现，最后一句点出词义，或是为猜谜提供一些暗示和猜测的方向，有点像中文里的谜目。猜英文字谜的关键是不要被谜面的含义或是寓意所迷惑，否则的话，很可能误入它途，不得要领。例如：
1) The beginning of eternity,
The end of time and space.
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.
将句中提到的单词“eternity, time, space, end, place”按照字面意思进行拆分，即可得到谜底：“The letter E”。
2)What starts with T，ends with T and full of T？谜底是“A teapot”。teapot(茶壶)一词以字母T开头和结尾，而茶壶里装的自然是茶(tea)，所以是full of T。
3)The longest word in the world.谜底是“smiles”。这个单词的首字母和尾字母之间是单词“mile”(英里)，可以理解为首尾间有一英里长，自然就是世界上最长的单词了。猜这个字谜时，千万不要去翻词典去找一个字母最多的单词。
英文谜语中一个重要的类型是智力谜语，主要涉及一些机智与诙谐的问题(shrewd and witty questions)，谜底通常是语义双关，和汉语中脑筋急转弯的问题极为类似，在英语中被称作“conundrums”。在莎士比亚悲剧《哈姆雷特》第五幕第一场中，两个专门为死人挖墓穴的工人出了一则智力谜语：What is he that builds stronger than either the mason，the shipwright or the carpenter？意思是谁造出来的东西比泥水匠、船匠或是木匠造的更坚固？谜底是：The gallows-maker，for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.因为绞架比任何一个被吊死其上的死刑犯都存在得长久，所以谜底是“造绞架的人”。莎士比亚用这则谜语告诉人们今日的辉煌迟早会成为过去。
猜智力谜语很有意思，也很有挑战性。破解智力谜语首先要有对语言的悟性及灵活运用的能力，其次是丰富的语言知识，二者缺一不可。
英文中，有些智力谜语貌似严肃，煞有介事，谜底却是稀松平常，让人哭笑不得，大呼上当。例如：
1) What is the difference between a presidential candidate and an overworked secretary?
谜底是“One can't wait to get into office and the other can't wait to get out of the office.”总统候选人(presidential candidate)迫不及待地要上任(get into office)，而工作过度劳累的秘书则期待着下班(get out of the office)回家休息。
2)What is the cheapest way to see the world？
谜底是“Buy an atlas”。买一张地图(buy an atlas)就可以见到整个世界(see the world)了。而其实see the world作为一个固定词组时的意思是“见多识广”。
有些貌似简单，谜底却耐人寻味。如：
What goes up and never goes down？谜底是“Age”。年龄是永远向上增长，不可能下降的。
还有一些则语出惊人，出人意料，细细品味倒也幽默风趣，让人哑然失笑。
例如：
Why should you never marry a tennis player？
谜底是“Because love means nothing to them”。love的通用义是“爱情”，在网球比赛中则表示“零分”。
英文智力谜语中有一类比较难猜，这类谜语是通过篡改英语谚语、成语或名句而形成的，要猜出这些谜语就必须对这些谚语、成语了如指掌，否则，就是绞尽脑汁也未必能猜中。略举例说明一下：
1)Why shouldn't you cry if a cow slips on the ice?
谜底是“Because it's no use crying over spilt milk.”
英语中成语“覆水难收”是这样表达的：“It's no use crying over spilt milk.”所以谜底就用成语作一戏言，因为母牛摔在地上，它身上的牛奶也洒了。
2)What's a sculptor's motto?
谜底是“All work and no clay makes Jack a ll boy.”
雕塑师(sculptor)的格言All work and no clay makes Jack a ll boy.(只工作没有土，聪明孩子也变傻。)是模仿谚语All work and no play makes Jack a ll boy.(只工作不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。)杜撰而来。
猜英文谜语不是易事，却是件愉悦身心、让人觉得很有成就感的事，有其难，亦有其乐。在猜谜的过程中，可以丰富语言知识，提高驾御语言的能力，培养对语言的悟性，同时还可以增加生活的情趣。最后，为了引起大家对英文谜语的兴趣，留几则谜语请大家猜一猜：
I.字谜：
1) There is a thing that is the first to pity and the last to help.
2) I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness.
You cannot express happiness without me;
yet I am in the midst of crosses.
I am always in risk, yet never in danger.
You may find me in the sun,
but I am never out of darkness.
3) My first is nothing but a name;
My second still more small;
My whole of so much smaller fame,
It has no name at all.
4) If the English alphabet goes from A to Z, what goes from Z to A?
II.事物谜：
1) At night they come
Without being fetched,
And by day they are lost
Without being stolen.
2) As round as an apple,
As deep as a pail;
It never cries out,
Till it's caught by the tail.
3) My sides are firmly laced about,
Yet nothing is within;
You'll think my head is strange indeed,
Being nothing else but skin.
4) Over the water,
And under the water,
And never touch the water.
5) I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
III.智力谜:
1) Why are Saturdays and Sundays so strong?
2)swheresdo smart dogs refuse to shop?
3) Would you rather an elephant kill you, or a gorilla?
4) When do elephants have sixteen feet？
5) Which is faster, heat or cold?
6) What's every baby's motto?-
答案：
I.字谜：1) The letter P 2)The letter S 3)Nameless 4) Zebra
II.事物谜：1)Stars 2)A bell 3)A drum 4)A girl crossing a bridge with a pail of water on her head. 5)Tomorrow
III.智力谜：
1)Because the rest are weekdays.提示：weekdays的意思是“工作日”，而week(星期)和weak(弱的)是一对同音异义词。
2)At flea markets.提示：flea market的意思是“跳蚤市场”(经营廉价古物、旧货等的露天市场)。谜底把flea market曲解为“跳蚤的市场”，聪明的狗可不愿长跳蚤，自然不愿去有跳蚤的市场。
3)I'd rather he kill the gorilla.提示：谜面可以有两种解释。第一种是“你希望大象杀死你，还是大猩猩杀死你？”第二种解释是“你希望大象杀死你，还是杀死大猩猩？”
4)When there are four of them.提示：因为四只大象(four elephants)有十六条腿。
5)Heat. You can catch cold.提示：catch cold的意思是“患感冒”，字面意思是“抓住冷”，但是从来没人说catch heat。
6) If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again.提示：孩子的格言If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again.(一次哭闹不成功，哭闹再哭闹)是模仿谚语If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.(一次不成功，努力再努力)杜撰而来
5. 有关英语的...(谜语)
1.Why did the person throw a clock the windw?
2.What time is it when a pie is divided among four friends?
3.What nail shouid you never hit with a hammer?
4.What ring is square?
5.Why is the sun like a loaf bread?
6.What is the difference between here and there?
7.What are the strongest days of the week?
8.Why did the man put wheel on his roccking chair?
9.Why is the letter"R" like Christmas?
10.What timg of day was Adam bron?
1.Why did the person throw a clock out the window?
- to see time fly
解释：time fly，字面是“时间飞行”，实际是“时光流逝”
2.What time is it when a pie is divided among four friends?
- 12:45 (即 a quarter to one)
解释：a quarter to one 是一点钟差一刻的意思，但也可以看成是一人拿1/4
3.What nail should you never hit with a hammer?
- fingernail
4.What ring is square?
- boxing ring (拳击圈)
5.Why is the sun like a loaf of bread?
- Because it’s light when it rises.
双关：如果是太阳，就是说，升起的时候天就亮了
如果是面包，rise 是发的意思，也就是说，面包发起来的时候会变得很轻
6.What is the difference between here and there?
The letter “t”. ( there 去掉“t”，跟 here 这个字就没什么两样。)
7.What are the strongest days of the week?
Saturday and Sunday --- all the other days are weak (week) days.
( weak与 week的发音一样。而美国人的工作天只有五天，即从 Monday到 Friday ，这五天是他们的week days.)
8.Why did the man put wheels on his rocking chair?
Because he wanted to rock and roll. （ to rock and roll是跳摇滚舞。但在这儿，摇rock 的是rocking chair，滚 roll的是 wheels。这就造成了一句双关的趣味。）
9.Why is the letter "R" like Christmas?
Because it comes at the end of December.
(对这句话而言，答案的意思是R这个字母正好排在December的末尾。除此以外，答案还有一个意思，Christmas在the end of December的时候到来。换言之，答案也造成了一句双关的趣味。）
10.What time of day was Adam born?
Just before Eve. ( Eve 是一语双关，一是解“晚间”， 一是解“夏娃”。)
6. 关于英语的谜语
1.What animal wears big black glasses on its face?
什么动物脸上戴个大墨镜？ （Panda 熊猫）
2.I'm almost white, but the fur of my ears, eye pits are black. I live in the wild forests,I like eating bamboos! Who am I ?
我几乎是白的，但耳朵、眼窝是黑的。我生活在森林里，喜欢吃竹子。我是谁？ （Panda 熊猫）
3.a cat,eyes like a cat,a tail like a cat ,but isn't a cat?
眼睛尾巴像只猫,但又不是猫?
（Tiger 老虎）
4：What letter is a body of water?
谜底是：C(sea)
即字母C,谐音就是“sea”大海，有很多水.
7. 关于动物的英语谜语，带翻译
I'm almost white, but the fur of my ears, eye pits are black. I live in the wild forests,I like eating bamboos! Who am I ?
我几乎是白的，但耳朵、眼窝是黑的。我生活在森林里，喜欢吃竹子。我是谁？ （Panda 熊猫）
1.What key can run itself?
什么钥匙自己会跑?
——Monkey. （猴）
2.What is the most difficult key to turn?
什么钥匙最难拧？
——Donkey. （驴）
3.My name start with a C and end with an L. I live in the desert, a hard place to live. I can carry people and their goods .
What am I?
我的名字以字母C开头，字母L结束，我住在沙漠里，一个很难居住的地方，我可以运送人和货物，我是谁？
——Camel. （骆驼）
1.What animal wears big black glasses on its face?
什么动物脸上戴个大墨镜？ （Panda 熊猫）
2.I'm almost white, but the fur of my ears, eye pits are black. I live in the wild forests,I like eating bamboos! Who am I ?
我几乎是白的，但耳朵、眼窝是黑的。我生活在森林里，喜欢吃竹子。我是谁？ （Panda 熊猫）
3.a cat,eyes like a cat,a tail like a cat ,but isn't a cat?
眼睛尾巴像只猫,但又不是猫?
（Tiger 老虎）
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1.I look like a house ,but my body is covered by black and white stripes.
2.I can run very quickly. I have antlers（鹿角）on my head.
3.I am an animal kept by farmers to proce milk.
4.I am not a fish but look like a large fish and live in the sea.I am a warm-blood mammal.（热血哺乳运动）
5.I have a very long neck and legs.I can eat the leaves on top of the tree.
6.I am known for my cleverness and cunning.（狡猾）
7.I like eating grass.People like to use my wool to make coats.
8.I look like a dog. But people and animals are all afraid of me, because I like eating them.
9.My names begin with W and end with E. I am the largest animal in the world and I live in the sea. I have beautiful blue skin. And no part of my body is thin.I'm not a fish but I breatheair.I don't have much hair . Men sometimes want to catch me for my body, I have huge fins I don't have feet. What am I ?I am......
答案：
1：斑马/zebra
2：鹿/deer
3：奶牛/cow
4：海豚/dolphin
5：长颈鹿/giraffe
6：狐狸/fox
7：羚羊/antelope
8：狼/wlof
9：鲸鱼/whale
8. 关于英语谜语大全十句以上好的
Why does the Statue of Liberty stand in New York Harbor?—— 谜底: Because it can't sit down.
What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 什么东西干净的时候是黑的，脏的时候却是白的呢？ blackboard 黑板
What has a round face and two thin hands, one hand short, one hand long?
什么东西有个圆圆的脸，两只瘦瘦的手，一只手长，一只长短呢？ a clock 闹钟
What is big and bright ring the day and we can’t see it at night?
什么东西白天的时候有大又亮，晚上我们却看不见呢？ the sun 太阳
I am small. I can fly. I like singing in the sky. What am I? 我很小，我会飞，我喜欢在天空中唱歌。我是谁？ a bird 鸟
What word can you make shorter by adding to it?—— 谜底: Short.
9.What is black when it's clean and white when it's dirty?—— 谜底: a blackboard
10.卡罗拉（打一英文单词）—— 谜底: corolla花冠
11.安定（打一英文单词）—— 谜底: ending
12.背噢（打一英文单词）—— 谜底: bale灾祸
13.Why can a bride hide nothing?(为什么新娘子什么也藏不住？)—— 谜底: Because someone will give her away.
9. 关于英语图形谜语大全
英文谜语同中国谜语一样有着极其悠久的历史，其中最为有名的大概是斯芬克司之“谜”了。“斯芬克司”一词源自希腊语Sphinx，是希腊神话中一个可怕的怪物，它长着女人的头、狮子的身躯，身上还有两只翅膀。传说中，狮身人面的女怪斯芬克司生性残酷无比，常常守在大路口，让过往的行人猜一个谜，猜错了就要被吃掉。有一次，一位国王的儿子被斯芬克司吃掉了，国王一怒之下，发出悬赏：“谁能把它制服，就给他王位。”青年俄狄浦斯(Oedipus)应召前去，很快就道破谜底，斯芬克司便自杀了。这个世界著名的谜语是：What goes on four feet, on two feet, and three, but the more feet it goes on, the weaker it will be.其谜底是Man. Because he crawls first, then walks on two feet, uses a cane when old.因为人在婴儿时用四肢在地上爬行，成人后两腿行走，年老后拄拐杖走路，所以谜底是“人”。这个谜语还可以这样说：What goes on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at sk?
在《圣经·士师记》中有这样一个故事，大力士参孙杀死了一头狮子，后来在狮子的尸体里发现了一群蜜蜂和蜂蜜，于是他就这件事编了一则谜语：Out of the eater came something to eat；/ Out of the strong came something sweet.他让菲利士人猜这个谜语，并允诺如果他们在七天之内给出谜底，就送给他们三十套亚麻布长袍和三十套衣服；如果给不出答案，他们就要送给他这些东西。狡猾的菲利士人让参孙的妻子哄骗参孙说出谜底。在第七天日落之前，菲利士人把答案告诉了参孙：What is sweeter than honey? / What is stronger than a lion?
上面两则有趣的谜语中，谜面的构成方法十分类似，都是采用了描写其特征的方法，英语中这种谜语被称为事物谜，也叫做描述性谜语(descriptive riddles)。事物谜的谜面通常是用比喻、暗示或其他方法来描绘所猜谜底的特征，和汉语中物谜的谜面构成及猜测方法基本相同。举例说明一下：
My fatherland is Arabia,
Though in England they roast me brown.
I'm ground up inside a mill,
And tortured with scalding water,
And then they pour milk over me,
And drink me at their leisure.
谜底是“Coffee”。这个谜语用第一人称自述的手法道出谜面，最后一句则是点睛之笔，使人一下就猜出谜底是某种饮料。
另外一种人们经常见到的英文谜语是字谜(charades)，字谜经常在字母、音节或是整个词的离合上做文章。字谜的谜面通常是前面几句描述谜底单词的某个或某些字母在哪些单词中出现或是不出现，最后一句点出词义，或是为猜谜提供一些暗示和猜测的方向，有点像中文里的谜目。猜英文字谜的关键是不要被谜面的含义或是寓意所迷惑，否则的话，很可能误入它途，不得要领。例如：
1) The beginning of eternity,
The end of time and space.
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.
将句中提到的单词“eternity, time, space, end, place”按照字面意思进行拆分，即可得到谜底：“The letter E”。
2)What starts with T，ends with T and full of T？谜底是“A teapot”。teapot(茶壶)一词以字母T开头和结尾，而茶壶里装的自然是茶(tea)，所以是full of T。
3)The longest word in the world.谜底是“smiles”。这个单词的首字母和尾字母之间是单词“mile”(英里)，可以理解为首尾间有一英里长，自然就是世界上最长的单词了。猜这个字谜时，千万不要去翻词典去找一个字母最多的单词。
英文谜语中一个重要的类型是智力谜语，主要涉及一些机智与诙谐的问题(shrewd and witty questions)，谜底通常是语义双关，和汉语中脑筋急转弯的问题极为类似，在英语中被称作“conundrums”。在莎士比亚悲剧《哈姆雷特》第五幕第一场中，两个专门为死人挖墓穴的工人出了一则智力谜语：What is he that builds stronger than either the mason，the shipwright or the carpenter？意思是谁造出来的东西比泥水匠、船匠或是木匠造的更坚固？谜底是：The gallows-maker，for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.因为绞架比任何一个被吊死其上的死刑犯都存在得长久，所以谜底是“造绞架的人”。莎士比亚用这则谜语告诉人们今日的辉煌迟早会成为过去。
猜智力谜语很有意思，也很有挑战性。破解智力谜语首先要有对语言的悟性及灵活运用的能力，其次是丰富的语言知识，二者缺一不可。
英文中，有些智力谜语貌似严肃，煞有介事，谜底却是稀松平常，让人哭笑不得，大呼上当。例如：
1) What is the difference between a presidential candidate and an overworked secretary?
谜底是“One can't wait to get into office and the other can't wait to get out of the office.”总统候选人(presidential candidate)迫不及待地要上任(get into office)，而工作过度劳累的秘书则期待着下班(get out of the office)回家休息。
2)What is the cheapest way to see the world？
谜底是“Buy an atlas”。买一张地图(buy an atlas)就可以见到整个世界(see the world)了。而其实see the world作为一个固定词组时的意思是“见多识广”。
有些貌似简单，谜底却耐人寻味。如：
What goes up and never goes down？谜底是“Age”。年龄是永远向上增长，不可能下降的。
还有一些则语出惊人，出人意料，细细品味倒也幽默风趣，让人哑然失笑。
例如：
Why should you never marry a tennis player？
谜底是“Because love means nothing to them”。love的通用义是“爱情”，在网球比赛中则表示“零分”。
英文智力谜语中有一类比较难猜，这类谜语是通过篡改英语谚语、成语或名句而形成的，要猜出这些谜语就必须对这些谚语、成语了如指掌，否则，就是绞尽脑汁也未必能猜中。略举例说明一下：
1)Why shouldn't you cry if a cow slips on the ice?
谜底是“Because it's no use crying over spilt milk.”
英语中成语“覆水难收”是这样表达的：“It's no use crying over spilt milk.”所以谜底就用成语作一戏言，因为母牛摔在地上，它身上的牛奶也洒了。
2)What's a sculptor's motto?
谜底是“All work and no clay makes Jack a ll boy.”
雕塑师(sculptor)的格言All work and no clay makes Jack a ll boy.(只工作没有土，聪明孩子也变傻。)是模仿谚语All work and no play makes Jack a ll boy.(只工作不玩耍，聪明孩子也变傻。)杜撰而来。
猜英文谜语不是易事，却是件愉悦身心、让人觉得很有成就感的事，有其难，亦有其乐。在猜谜的过程中，可以丰富语言知识，提高驾御语言的能力，培养对语言的悟性，同时还可以增加生活的情趣。最后，为了引起大家对英文谜语的兴趣，留几则谜语请大家猜一猜：
I.字谜：
1) There is a thing that is the first to pity and the last to help.
2) I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness.
You cannot express happiness without me;
yet I am in the midst of crosses.
I am always in risk, yet never in danger.
You may find me in the sun,
but I am never out of darkness.
3) My first is nothing but a name;
My second still more small;
My whole of so much smaller fame,
It has no name at all.
4) If the English alphabet goes from A to Z, what goes from Z to A?
II.事物谜：
1) At night they come
Without being fetched,
And by day they are lost
Without being stolen.
2) As round as an apple,
As deep as a pail;
It never cries out,
Till it's caught by the tail.
3) My sides are firmly laced about,
Yet nothing is within;
You'll think my head is strange indeed,
Being nothing else but skin.
4) Over the water,
And under the water,
And never touch the water.
5) I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
III.智力谜:
1) Why are Saturdays and Sundays so strong?
2)swheresdo smart dogs refuse to shop?
3) Would you rather an elephant kill you, or a gorilla?
4) When do elephants have sixteen feet？
5) Which is faster, heat or cold?
6) What's every baby's motto?-
答案：
I.字谜：1) The letter P 2)The letter S 3)Nameless 4) Zebra
II.事物谜：1)Stars 2)A bell 3)A drum 4)A girl crossing a bridge with a pail of water on her head. 5)Tomorrow
III.智力谜：
1)Because the rest are weekdays.提示：weekdays的意思是“工作日”，而week(星期)和weak(弱的)是一对同音异义词。
2)At flea markets.提示：flea market的意思是“跳蚤市场”(经营廉价古物、旧货等的露天市场)。谜底把flea market曲解为“跳蚤的市场”，聪明的狗可不愿长跳蚤，自然不愿去有跳蚤的市场。
3)I'd rather he kill the gorilla.提示：谜面可以有两种解释。第一种是“你希望大象杀死你，还是大猩猩杀死你？”第二种解释是“你希望大象杀死你，还是杀死大猩猩？”
4)When there are four of them.提示：因为四只大象(four elephants)有十六条腿。
5)Heat. You can catch cold.提示：catch cold的意思是“患感冒”，字面意思是“抓住冷”，但是从来没人说catch heat。
6) If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again.提示：孩子的格言If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again.(一次哭闹不成功，哭闹再哭闹)是模仿谚语If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.(一次不成功，努力再努力)杜撰而来