四年级英语字谜

Swings by his thigh a thing most magical! Below the belt, beneath the folds of his clothes it hangs, a hole in its front end, stiff-set and stout, but swivels about. Levelling the head of this hanging instrument, its wielder hoists his hem above the knee: it is his will to fill a well-known hole that it fits fully when at full length. He has often filled it before. Now he fills it again. ----------------------- a key I'm the world's wonder, for I make women happy --a boon to the neighborhood, a bane to no one, though I may perhaps prick the one who picks me. I am set well up, stand in a bed, have a roughish root. Rarely (though it happens) a churl's daughter more daring than the rest --and lovelier! --lays hold of me, and lays me in larder. She learns soon enough, the curly-haired creature who clamps me so, of my meeting with her: moist is her eye! -----------------------an onion A young man made for the corner where he knew she was standing; this strapping youth had come some way--with his own hands he whipped up her dress, and under her girdle (as she stood there) thrust something stiff, worked his will; they both shook. This fellow quickened: one moment he was forceful, a first rate servant, so strenuous that the next he was knocked up, quite blown by his exertion. Beneath the girdle a thing began to grow that upstanding men often think of, tenderly, and acquire. ----------------------- dough I'm told a certain something grows in its pouch, swells and stands up, lifts its covering. A proud bride grasped that boneless wonder, the daughter of a king covered that swollen thing with clothing. -----------------------a churn A lovely woman, a lady, often locked me in a chest; at times she took me out with her fingers, and gave me to her lord and loyal master, just as he asked. Then he poked his head inside me, pushed it up until it fitted tightly. I, adorned, was bound to be filled with something rough if the loyal lord could keep it up. Guess what I mean. ----------------------- helmet When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you gay. When old, I am valued more than ever. --------------------- wine I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I lick Will soon turn red. --------------------- fire All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard. --------------------- Wind I am only useful When I am full, Yet I am always Full of holes. --------------------- sieve (or sponge) If you break me I do not stop working, If you touch me I may be snared, If you lose me Nothing will matter. --------------------- Heart If a man carried my burden He would break his back. I am not rich, But leave silver in my track. --------------------- Snail Until I am measured I am not known, Yet how you miss me When I have flown. --------------------- Time I drive men mad For love of me, Easily beaten, Never free. --------------------- Gold When set loose I fly away, Never so cursed As when I go astray. --------------------- A fart I go around in circles But always straight ahead, Never complain No matter where I am led. --------------------- Wagon wheel Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen. --------------------- iceberg I turn around once, What is out will not get in. I turn around again, What is in will not get out. --------------------- stopcock Each morning I appear To lie at your feet, All day I will follow No matter how fast you run, Yet I nearly perish In the midday sun. --------------------- Shadow Bright as diamonds, Loud as thunder, Never still, A thing of wonder. --------------------- waterfall? (fireworks?) My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick Fat, I am slow Wind is my foe. --------------------- candle To unravel me You need a simple key, No key that was made By locksmith's hand, But a key that only I Will understand. --------------------- cipher I am seen in the water If seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, A jay's feather, And lapis lazuli. --------------------- blue Glittering points That downward thrust, Sparkling spears That never rust. --------------------- icicle You heard me before, Yet you hear me again, Then I die, 'Till you call me again. --------------------- echo Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin, Light enough to caress the sky, Hard enough to crack rocks. --------------------- water You can see nothing else When you look in my face, I will look you in the eye And I will never lie. --------------------- your reflection Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, grown in the darkness, A lady's delight. --------------------- pearl At the sound of me, men may dream Or stamp their feet At the sound of me, women may laugh Or sometimes weep --------------------- music When I am filled I can point the way, When I am empty Nothing moves me, I have two skins One without and one within. --------------------- glove My tines be long, My tines be short My tines end ere My first report. What am I? --------------------- lightning With thieves I consort, With the vilest, in short, I'm quite at ease in depravity; Yet all divines use me, And savants can't lose me, For I am the center of gravity. --------------------- The letter 'v'. As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I? --------------------- stable I sought my first in starry skies Where shines the April sun; My second came before my eyes, And warned me to be done. 'Tis very hard to lose one's sight; I'm blind as bat or mole; Once hills and fields were my delight, Now I'm no more my whole. Solution ? My first is high, My second damp, My whole a tie, A writer's cramp. Solution ? A hundred and one by fifty divide, And if a cipher is rightly applied, The answer is one from nine. Solution ? What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire, What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves And all men carry to their graves? --------------------- nothing I build up castles. I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I? --------------------- sand