我的老板溺爱它的孙子，那孩子十来岁，整天里不是琢磨这个就琢磨那个，我的老板摸摸孙子的小脑袋说： “真不知道你的小脑袋瓜子整天都在想些什么？！”
西方孩子的兴趣和中国孩子的兴趣有差别的，小脑袋瓜子中想的问题肯定不同。孩子们看电视，觉得新鲜就写下来，这一篇应该是一个典型的西方孩子脑袋瓜子里装的东西。比如这两天，电视上说中国的龙舟赛，小孩就跟着电视对中国龙舟有了认识。
同事塞进我的信箱的，翻译一下，一笑了之。如果有谁把中国十来岁孩子头脑里想的东西写出来，一定也很有趣。
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The average life span of an umbrella is under two years.
一把雨伞的平均寿命小于两年。
There is a city called Rome in every continent.
七大洲中每一洲都有一个叫罗马的城市。
A donkey will sink in quick sand, while a mule will not.
驴子在流沙中会下沉，骡子就不会。
4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year.
每年因茶壶儿受伤的人达高四千（木匠译後注（下略）：西方人有下午茶的习惯）。
The McDonalds at Torontos SkyDome is the only McDonalds locationthat sells hot dogs.
在多伦多冰球馆里有全世界最独特的麦当劳，那儿的麦当劳竟然兼卖热狗（其它麦当劳不卖热狗）。
One million $1 bills weighs 1 ton
一百万张一加元的钞票重一吨。
In an average day, a four year old child will ask 437 questions.
平均算来，一个四岁的孩子一天会问437个问题。
The average speed of Heinz ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year.
亨氏番茄酱，每年从瓶子里流出的长度加起来有25英里长。
Little more than half of the people living in the U.S. would rather fold, than wad their toilet paper.
一大半美国人擦屁股用折叠的方式使用厕所纸，而不会把它揉成一团（原来美国人是这样？哈，奇谈）。
The only words in the English language to contain two “Us” back to back are: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.
仅只有三个英语单词包含两个紧靠的字母“u”，分别是真空，残渣和连续性（vacuum, residuum, and continuum）。
998 million people play Volleyball.
打排球的人口有九亿九千八百万（形容打排球的人众多）。
You consume one tenth (.1) calories when you lick a stamp
在舔一张邮票的时候，你消耗了0.1卡路里热能（想减肥的，站邮局义务贴邮票就行了）。
60 % of statistics are made up…
公布的统计数据中，百分之六十是虚假拼凑的（这条我相信）。
Dragon boat racing is the 8th most popular sport in the world!(What the funk is Dragon boat racing)
龙舟竞赛是第八最受欢迎的体育项目！（原附注：那么多人喜欢划龙舟，多恐怖啊）
The first non-human to win an Oscar was Mickey Mouse.
赢得奥斯卡的第一个非人类角色是米老鼠。
Pi has been calculated to over 2,260,321,363 digits.
圆周率的计算已经精确到到2260321363位数值了。
An ostrich egg would take four hours to hard boil.
煮熟一个鸵鸟蛋十分困难，需要四个小时之久。
The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one.
左鸡腿比右鸡腿通常嫩一些（孝敬老人，给老人吃鸡左腿）。
Chickens can’t swallow while they are upside down.
如果把鸡倒立，鸡就不能吞咽食物（倒立着的人可以）。
There are more chickens in the world than people.
世界上，鸡的数量比人口多。
A novel with 50,000 words, non of which contained the letter E wasw ritten by Ernest Wright.
有一本英文小说，全书有五万字，却没有一个字包含字母“e”，作者是厄内斯特-怀特。
There are only 18 countries richer than Bill Gates.
世界上只有18个国家的国有财富能超过比尔-盖茨的个人财富（这个恐怕是旧数据）。
There have been fewer people below 2km in sea than have been on the moon.
能潜下海水两公里深处的人，比上过月亮的人还少。
Every year more people are killed by donkeys, than in aircraft crashes.
每年被驴子踢死的人，多于死于空难的人人数（谁统计过？）。
The only word in the English language to contain three back to back double letter combinations is; Bookkeeper.
英文中仅只有一个字中包含了三对紧靠的字母，会计（Bookkeeper）。
The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.
印度每年新增的人口多于澳大利亚的人口。
The smallest ‘country’ in the world to have its own top-level domain name is Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia.
世界上，拥有自己的顶级域名的最小国家是澳大利亚边上的诺福克岛国。
The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour.It was set in a lunar rover.
月球表面的（最大）行驶速度记录是每小时10.56英里，月球车创造了这个记录。
Gibraltar is the only place in Europe were you can find wild monkeys.
在欧洲，能找到野生猴子的唯一地方是直布罗陀。
Every year, the moon moves 1/2 an inch further from the earth.
月球以每年半英寸的速度远离地球。
In 1977, George Willig was fined $1.10 for climbing the World Trade Center building.
1977年，乔治-威利格因攀爬世界贸易中心而被罚款一点一美元（911後再也爬不成了）。
If you yelled for 8 years ,7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.
假如你大声喊叫八年七个月零六天，产生的能量足够煮热一杯咖啡（睡觉还是不睡觉？）。
Banging your head off a wall uses 150 calories an hour!(ouch)
你用头撞墙一小时，会消耗150卡路里！ （原附：哎哟！）
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps blood out to the body it could squirt blood 30 feet!
人的心脏产生的压力可以让血喷出9米高（30英尺）！
In downtown Lima, Peru, there is a large brass statue dedicated to Winnie-the-Pooh.
在秘鲁立马市中心，有一个维尼熊的大型铜塑像（迪斯尼动物角色）。
In space you cannot cry because there is no gravity to make the tears flow.
在太空中你不能哭，因为没有重力让眼泪能流出来。
n the Scottish Hebrides, an island is defined as being an islandonly if it is big enough to sustain 1 sheep.
在苏格兰赫布里底群岛中，有个小岛的面积只够维持一只羊生存（在南沙，这样的小岛多的是）。
There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
在美国，塑料草坪火烈鸟比真正的火烈鸟要多得多。
A typist fingers travel over 12 and a half miles in an average day.
平均每天，一个打字员手指移动长度累计超过十二点五英里。
2,500 left handers die each year using products designed for right handers.
每年有两千五百位左撇子死于不当使用右手产品的事故。
The Roman Catholic Church did not acknowledge that the earth revolves around the sun until the mid 1990s.
到上世纪90年代之前，罗马天主教一直不承认日心说。
he worlds most common non-contagious disease is tooth-decay.
世界上最常见的非传染性疾病是蛀牙。
In 50 million years, it is likely that Mars will have a ring around it.
五千万年以後，火星周围将会有一条火星环。
The short phrases of organ music played at a baseball game is called a tucket.
橄榄球比赛中使用的音乐短句是骑兵的行进曲。
Dungarees is another word for Denim.
工装裤是牛仔裤的另一种叫法（正式叫法和流行叫法）。
A deltiologist is someone who collects postcards.
明信片收藏家是指专门收集明信片的人（废话）。
People descended from the Scottish clan of Kerr are more likely to be left handed than any other ancestrial group.
苏格兰家族克尔人的后裔更有可能是左手，左撇子比别的种族明显地多（有没有严格的统计？是随口乱说的吧）。
The shortest war ever recorded lasted only 38 minutes. (Britain vs. Zanzibar.in 1896)
最短的战争记录只持续了38分钟（英国与桑给巴尔于1896年） 。
Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.
尽管人口十几亿，中国只有大约两百来个姓氏（西方的姓氏多得多）。
If you told someone that they were one in a million, you’d be saying there were 1,800 of them in China.
如果你对某人说，那是百万分之一，也就是说一百万中有一千八百人在中国（纯粹废话）。
In 1892, Italy raised the minimum age for marriage for girls to 12.
1892年，意大利将女孩的最低结婚年龄提高到12岁（在那以前年纪限制更低）。
New York City has 570 miles of shoreline.
纽约市有570英里的海岸线。
Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in our solar system.
奥林匹斯山在我们的太阳系中是最大的火山。
A red-haired man is more likely to go bald than anyone else.
红头发的人更有可能秃头。
“Q” is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
Q是唯一的没有出现在美国任何州名中的字母。
The Boston University Bridge is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
波士顿大学桥是世界上独一无二能船上面走火车，火车上面走汽车，汽车上面有飞机的大桥（少见多怪哈，很多大桥都这样）。
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These traight sections are useable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
艾森豪威尔州际公路系统要求每五英里公路中有一英里长的直线路段，从而可在战争或别的紧急事件发生时，用作飞机的起降（难怪有星际大战的电影）。
Two objects have struck the earth with enough force to destroy a whole city. Each object, one in 1908 and again in 1947, struck regions of Siberia. Not one human being was hurt either time.
曾经有两个足以摧毁整个城市隕石击中地球，一个在1908年，另一个在1947年。陨落地点在西伯利亚地区，因此撞击事件中没有一个人受伤。
Up to three thousand species of trees have been cataloged in square mile of the Amazon jungle.
亚马逊丛林，仅在一平方英里之内就可以找到三千种不同的树木。
We are in the middle of an ice age. Ice ages include both cold and warm periods; at the moment we are experiencing a relatively warm span of time known as an interglacial period. Geologists believe that the warmest part of this period occurred from 1890 through 1945 and that since 1945 things have slowly begun freezing up again.
我们正处于一个冰河期之中，冰河期包括严寒期和温暖期。目前，我们正在经历一个相对温暖的时段，称为间冰期。地质学家认为，最热的时段发生发生在1890年至1945年。1945年以後，世界又开始慢慢缓慢的冷起来（现在又转热了？）。
A jogger’s heel strikes the ground 1,500 times per mile.
跑步者每跑一英里，脚跟就要敲击地面一千五百次。
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
一名男子名叫查尔斯-奥斯本的男人打嗝打了69年。