时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  英美人喜欢用“午后茶会”的方式来度过一段悠闲的时光,这种社交活动就叫做pink tea或kettledrum。


  Pink tea听起来很浪漫--粉红色的茶,但事实上这个词组和粉红色没有任何关系。Pink tea是过去很流行的一种高雅茶会,属于正式的社交活动,不是随便什么人都可以参加的。Pink tea是19世纪晚期由美国人发明的,当时的pink表示“时尚的,高级的,人选限制严格的”(fashionable and exclusive)。Pink的这层含义源于它16世纪时就有的古老本义“顶峰或最佳范例”——这也许和高加索白人健康红润(pinkish)的脸色有关,因为in the pink可以表示in good health 1。到了17世纪,pink同时具有了“精英之一”和“优美高雅的”双重含义。


  Kettledrum是一种“由羊皮纸做鼓面的半球形铜鼓”,后来也用来表示“午后茶会”。Kettledrum产生于19世纪的英国,其起源可能与18世纪中期的英国俗语drum有关,当时drum表示在私人住宅里举办的时髦聚会,这也许和这种聚会通常会产生的巨大喧闹有关。值得一提的是,当时的drum还是黑社会的行话,表示“街道”或“房屋”,源于吉普赛语drom(street)。


  总之,kettledrum和drum都有“时髦聚会”的含义,但kettledrum呈半球形或釜状,与茶壶(tea kettle)的形状相仿,所以后来人们把它和“茶会”进一步联系起来。 


 



n.健康;健康状况
  • Are you in good health?你的身体好吗?
  • I wish you good health and a long life.祝您健康长寿。
学英语单词
analysette
areolar choroiditis
Beema
begin legal proceedings against
bikini pants
block span
Braya
bright-line spectrum
Britishise
Caryopteris mongholica
celade
choked crushing
citrusin
clearness index
coal unloading yard
coil spring tine cultivator
collector-base diode
crista ampullaris
customary orders
Cypripedium flavum
D.P.S (data processing system)
dermoid cyst of ovary
Dieu et mon droit
discobolos
disorderable
disorders
disseminator role
downward venting
earthy gypsum
empty chair technique
EMV
exchange market
factor Xll
fiamma
Fish.
Gaussian elementary beam
genus haematopuses
gone with the flow
Gorni Lom
hardware optimization
have a prejudice against
hot-water tanks
hydrothermal vent community
hyperosmolar comas
incentifies
jamsas
jury-fixer
knockout resonance
land carriage
landamycin
Lighthouse Vessel
locum tenency
maize germ oil
Marche-les-Dames
marginal profit chart
micromelittophilae
milky-white rice kernel
monohydroxy
Morigio I.
Motu R.
newsradio
non-cooperative game theory
NSC-69529
obducen
organic-gardening
passed for
portage
Porto Pino
potio
product structure
prohaskas
public stewardship
push-pull connector
random
reading task
real-time blackhole list
resondary shielding
robotug
rough weight
rye whiskies
scythe blade
soliddrawn
square mean
standard timperature
straight shooters
stressed system
stsci
temporary stopping
tetraiodofluorescein
thelytokous
thermal load
thibierge-weissenbach syndrome
tidy-up
uk weather
un-standardized
vector angle
Venus probe
Vietnamese monetary unit
vision mixture operator
VPCNF
wiped galvanizing
z-coordinates