时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  我们大家都知道著名的万圣节前夕Halloween,可你知道Halloween的前夕有些什么样的叫法吗?


  Halloween是10月31日,在凯尔特旧历里相当于“除夕”。在美国、加拿大以及英伦诸岛,孩子们穿着各种奇异有趣的服装,带面具或化浓妆,走家串户接受款待,并搞些恶作剧来庆祝这个节日。Halloween又叫做诸圣节前夕,因为根据天主教教义,11月1日是诸圣节(All Saints Day, All Hallows Day or Hallomass),之后的11月2日则为万灵节(All Souls Day),又称追思亡者节。Hallow起源于halig(holy的古英语形式),而Halloween实际上是All Hallows Even的简称,据说那天死者的灵魂会来拜访他们生前常去的地方。


  Halloween的前夕,即10月30日,爱玩爱闹的美国人早就按捺不住了。在美国的不少地方,人们早早就准备好各种玩具和游戏,开始了他们的“恶作剧之夜”(a night for tricks and pranks),有些性急的小孩子也早早就敲响了邻居家的大门,开始“乞讨”食物。在美国东部某些地区,人们把这一天叫做Devil's Night或Mischief Night(在密歇根州的底特律一带,Devil's Night还不幸地造成了可怕的纵火传统。)在美国东部其他地区和中西部,人们还把10月30日叫作Trick Night,Corn Night,Tick-Tack Night或者Goosy Night。此外,在东北一带,如新泽西,还有Cabbage Night的说法。


  科幻作家雷·布拉德伯里(Ray Bradbury)在1962年出版的代表作《魔法当家》(Something Wicked This Way Comes)提到过Cabbage Night。这个词可能最早出现在20世纪初期,至于为什么要用卷心菜来代表这一天,可能是因为节日里顽皮的孩子们喜欢拿“价廉物美”的卷心菜来搞恶作剧,用菜汁来涂抹玻璃,或者在邻居的门口敲打卷心菜,制造出沉闷的重击声来吓唬人;甚至把腐烂的卷心菜叶子倒在受害者的门廊里,使之散发出臭呼呼的味道。



学英语单词
abnegated
acid recovery plant
agnello
Altafjorden
antimedical
apple thrips
atrabilariousness
bottle imp
brass screw with square head
broadvision
captive-audience
Cartagenans
carving on wood
Centrifugal Fans
centrode mechanism
completorium
corner boy
CTL
cut-off key
De Morgan's rule
discharged
do sth out of vanity
domestic gas
dominant class
doubling preventer clamp
downdraf
dsrbm
Edwardstone
epide
epoxidized soybean oil
equatorial wave guide
Famophos
forage corn harvester
forthleaping
front focal point
frosting surface
furious
gargle-factory
glomeruli of pronephros
gorcrow
halimocnemis villosa kar. et kir.
Hammam Sousse
handcards
headline rate
high threshold of development
hurre
internally compensated operational amplifier
investigatorial
joco
local land charge
Logiparin
low toxicity
Luffa acutangula Roxb.
lukked
manuring requirement
maoke mountains
marine energy resource
mathematical mapping
mean environmental wind
metal industry
metal material
mishko
molli
move ... to tears
o'hair
oleometer
oxy-accetylene welding
pan filler
Papago Indian Reservation
partial functions
phakomatosis pigmentovascularis
preretinal fibrosis
purple helmet
quit love with hate
rapid return stroke
rere-cord
residual current device functionally independent on line voltage
rutilans
Schmieheim
scourability
seizing up
single entry compressor
steady-state method of test
summotion
sunken eye
superemphasis
switching pulse generator
symbolic optimum assembly program
Taleh Zang
taperstick
temperature coefficient of permeability
three-quarter sisters
transportation of wood
travaille
travel and entertainment account
two days
uk -speak
unligable
vacuum tube transducer
vehicle passability
worse-than-standard performance
yeastie beastie