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muffin 小松饼，玛芬 egg tart 蛋塔 Special Pirate Boat Fruity Mix 水果捞 Coffee mocha Happy Pair Coffee Sausage Supreme Pizza 香肠至尊比萨 No news is good news. More haste , less speed. One man is no man. Love is a sweet torment. The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. 爱极生恨。 He who is full of himself is very empty. 自以为是的人是很空虚的。 Failure is the mother of success. 失败是成功之母。 Lets 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 werent invented in England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which arent sweet, are meat. 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. ( nor引导的倒装句) And why it is that writers write but fingers dont finge, grocers dont groce and hammers dont ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isnt the plural of booth beeth? If you have one goose, two geese, why not one moose, two meese, or one index, two indices? Doesnt it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, or that you can comb through the annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didnt preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a recital; ship by truck and send cargo by ship; have noses that run and feet that smell; park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites, and quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another? You have to marvel at