慢速英语短文听力 拼字谜

Word Search Puzzles

拼字谜

Word Search is a fun word puzzle. People learning English can play. People teaching English can play. Each puzzle is for one player. The player searches for hidden words. The hidden words are on a grid¹. The grid contains 100 squares or more. Each square contains a letter. Groups of letters form words. A list of words is beside the grid. The player looks at the list. He looks at the grid. He tries to match the words in the list to words on the grid. The hidden words are hard to find. The words are vertical² and horizontal. They are diagonal and backwards³. Finding them is tricky⁴. Finding them is fun. The words in each puzzle usually belong to a category. Categories include cars, animals, and food. There are many categories. Word search puzzles are popular. Players can buy word search books. Players can find word search puzzles online.

拼字谜其乐无穷。英语学习者可以玩。英语教授者也可以玩。每人有一个拼字谜。玩家需要找寻缺失的字母。缺失的字母在方格中。方格中又含有100或100以上的小方格。每个小方格含有一个字母。字母组合形成单词。方格旁边有一列单词。玩家要一边看着这列单词。一边看着方格。并尝试着将列表中的单词与方格相对应。人们很难找到缺失单词。单词有水平的，有垂直的。有斜线方向的，也有逆向的。找到它们不容易。而发现它们的过程非常有趣。每个猜字谜的单词通常会属于一个类别。这些类别包括汽车、动物、食物。还有许多其他类别。猜字谜非常流行。玩家可以购买相关书籍。也可以在网上发现这些猜字谜游戏。

1 grid   

n.高压输电线路网；地图坐标方格；格栅

参考例句：

• In this application,the carrier is used to encapsulate the grid.在这种情况下，要用载体把格栅密封起来。
• Modern gauges consist of metal foil in the form of a grid.现代应变仪则由网格形式的金属片组成。

2 vertical   

adj.垂直的，顶点的，纵向的；n.垂直物，垂直的位置

参考例句：

• The northern side of the mountain is almost vertical.这座山的北坡几乎是垂直的。
• Vertical air motions are not measured by this system.垂直气流的运动不用这种系统来测量。

3 backwards   

adv.往回地，向原处，倒，相反，前后倒置地

参考例句：

• He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
• All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。

4 tricky   

adj.狡猾的，奸诈的；(工作等)棘手的，微妙的

参考例句：

• I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手，你能帮我吗？
• He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题，只做了个笼统的表述。