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
Aena
all souls festival and dance (europe)
ambani
antidromic illumination
aorticorenal ganglion
assemblage
assisted control
athwartships propeller
auditory memory
Australian X disease
be big with child
benzonaphthalin
burnt sienna
cell-holder
complete family of distributions
composite heating
costages
courach
culnet
DC plating
de Beurmann-Gougerot disease
digigraphics
dog-violet
dyanmic
electrolytic cyaniding
Eucalyptus rostrata
exclaves
fast initial phase
fencesitter
finger-plate gauge
follicular gland
forged integral rotor
fragrantness
free-bound transition
Fundy, Bay of
Galapagos Seamount
Gardol
Gel-collinite
George Foreman grills
get anyplace
glycidaldehyde
guess a riddle
hand lever
hand-weedings
haplotyping
hippa truncatifrons
horizontal output deflectioncircuit
huchin
kollo
l.w.
leaf-storm
lessening of close stand
local hydriding of zircaloy clad (ding) tubes
Lokoja
make a caricature of
malgrace
Medieval Warm Period
megastomes
merchandise on approval
Merrickville
milky maturity
mound layer
nitrobine hydrochloride
operating cash flows
opiase
ovulation methods
parahepatic
pelecaniform birds
Penobscot River
photographic enlargement section
pluckiest
principia mathematica
propelling screw
radiation emission measurement
recovery.gov
reinvert
revson
sahiwal cattle
sanguineus
secondary hypoglycemia
self-oxidation (auto-oxidation)
shrouded blade
sliding hatch
sophorine
stromatized
superconducting transmission
system of fixed production quotas
thumb glass
tigroid spindles
tsaritza, tsaritsa
uncertificated
uprootal
validity of audit evidence
viscous meter
vitreous humour
waste heat utilization of kiln
widespread distributor
Wiesau
Windows Open Services Architecture
winter crookneck
wonderlands
Xmodem