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
abrasive wheel dresser
adductor longus
air packing
alisol
alliterated
Alloisoimperatorin
aylard
Backaryd
beats it
Bikhūyeh
borschts
Boucaut B.
brevibacterium epidermidis
bulbous root
bullion and foreign currencies
centralization of purchasing
chaffered
chyle stomach
cirrocumulus castellanus
clam smacker
cleaning of coal energy
confirmation in writing
counting system
cyberhood
degradation pcak
demi-girdle
dipyrite
disckectomy
drug-driver
dual flow path
dynamic priority algorithm
english-major
fixed assets card
fixed pillow-block
Fortaleza
frontal low
fucked over
genus Buteo
genus iberiss
heavy chain disease
heavy type winch
holoblastic segmentation
hydrogen transfer(ence)
I wiss
indialite
International Sight-seeing and Tours Association
irizarrys
isobutyroin
karens
knock sb's block off
land edge seam
lowering time of boom
mahasamadhi
mailing list server
Marquesic
memory condenser
metal thick plate
minerval
monocoque body
Mussaenda breviloba
myristyltrimethylsilicane
news analyst
nonrelations
onychectomies
perceiveth
peytral
photo-electrical effect
Phytomastigophora
play a lone hand
Poa jaunsarensis
Poix-de-Picardie
political representativeness
positioning NC
postemphasis
prohibition of devastation
quadrsturelagging
racerbacks
radio-frequency acceleration
reciprocating share
redundant checking
regulation carrying capacity
reverse warrant hedge
self-avoiding random walks
sfumatoes
similunar
simplex method for dual
sortie can
sources of date
sporozite
sporting chances
starch milk
station batteries
synchronization scenario
system time stamp
time of attack
tonify the lung
traffic bottleneck
unconvincing
undercoatings
unility program
waiting for
winebibbing