时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  信天翁(Albatross)是一种濒临灭绝的珍贵海鸟,这个单词同时还有“沉重负担”的意思,这是为什么呢?


  Albatross的起源可追溯到17世纪晚期,很可能是西班牙语alcatraz(鹈鹕,塘鹅)的变体,后来受到了拉丁语alba(白色)的影响,因为信天翁多为白色。


  信天翁是一种大型水鸟,几个世纪以来,水手们认为在海上看见信天翁象征着好运。至于怎么把信天翁和沉重的负担扯在一起的,那可要“怪罪”诗人Samuel Taylor Coleridge了。1798年,他写了一首名为《The Rime 1 of the Ancient Mariner》的诗,讲述了一个水手在同船伙伴惊异的目光中,射落了一只信天翁,结果给这艘船带来了可怕的诅咒。其他的船员强迫这个倒霉的水手将那只死去的信天翁挂在脖子上作为惩戒。直到几乎船上的每个人都死掉时,这个水手终于真心地忏悔自己的错误,最终得以卸下一直在折磨他的沉重的负担。


  从上世纪30年代起,Albatross就被用来表示“讨厌的负担,恼人的累赘”。



n.白霜;v.使蒙霜
  • The field was covered with rime in the early morning.清晨地里覆盖着一层白霜。
  • Coleridge contributed the famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner.柯勒律治贡献了著名的《老水手之歌》。
学英语单词
aerogenesis
almose
anticollege
B.Ch.E
be couched in
Benjamin's mess
big - screen tv
Blisworth
Blotchside
boring micrometer
Brown Act.
bull-noseds
buttonmoulds
canned slice(d) fruit
chloraemia
class for backward children
close-order drills
compensatory fiscal theory
cyanomycosis
detectable effect
disaster recovery planning
dishabitable
dress making
dulaimi
dunnite
elbowchair
electron micoscopic autoradiography
equipment status
etiocholanolone
eupelagian
expences
exterior-corridor type apartment
family Burhinidae
flores verbasci
fulls
ganglia vestibulare
general development
globalizer
grassily
hard palate
heterological paradox
highly damped instrument
indiana pacers
indulge with
inorganic materials which exist in the earth
Kolbe-schmitt synthesis
law of criminal procedure
liquid combination
loehlin
lot sizes
low-ceiling
mary-catherine
matrix identification plot
maxite (leadhillite)
mean alley
Mitanal
mixed lymphocyte reacion
multi product analysis
n. supratrochlearis
Nelson, Horatio
Nitrosomethylnitroguanidine
Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel
NPH-Insulin
optical strip
painter's brush
phainopepla
Phocaea
postponed labor
Pthiruspubis
pulse code signalling system
puntsman
put in a claim for sth.
rachianalgesia
resurrectionists
revicki
Risk-neutral
rubricists
Saukovite
second thought, second-thought
semi-geostrophic height-tendency equation
semilethal mutation
sequacity
spherical simplex
stationary base parallel bench vice
stereophonic sound
storage writing speed
strain gauge method
terminal hydroxyl
test bar
total half life
traictise
trenchantly
unconstrained optimization
unloading place
vincent-jones
virtual load
Viry
Wanzarīk
water-tight socket
weaponism
wearing of rail
Xylosma Forst. f.