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
a cover
active bias circuit
agent bank fee
airspace control area
articulation of tubercle of rib
attenuation drawing effect
Auzia
bapta
blottesque
Brand-Nagelberg
butter biscuit
carpet bombing
caryogenic
cavallas
characteristic velocity scale
chromosome inversion
clean room technique
compensating joint
complex general linear group
condition(al) series
constant weight code
cookware
corrosion margin
cuda
deceleratings
depth of isostatic compensation
deters
disc file assignment table
domsat
encapsuled
energy economy model
episcopant
Fenate
followups
frost back
frustration-aggression hypothesis
gaultheria spirit
genuine
germiculture
gnatboneuralgia
greater circuIation
handwritten numeral recognition
Histogram-Equalization
hop pillow
hostler emergency brake relay
hot water washing
Indigofera pulchella
ironsand
IRTO
jump relative
Kissidougou
littoralia
load distributing washer
Ma-ugon
memorisable
Miho-wan
Montague
moving bed reduction
nivosity
nuclear excavation
olefinic alcohol
outsystem
pantel
pass band utilization factor
pendular reflex
photo-imaging
physical storage management
process interfacing
qaddish
reduced trace
relative static
repressor-operator
reverse retrograde canon
rose bay shrublet
Roxburg
saxon chrysolite (topaz)
self unloading wagon
serum gonadotropin
seventy times seven
shut ... in
siber
sky wave delay curves
SODB
sodium platinocyanide
SSKs
stability report
standard schnauzers
stapedial plate
starkville
summary of scrap and spoiled materials
tax heldover
throat-dingle
time domain addressing
trimoprostil
UAAC
unformedness
upward air current
Villabona
Weissenberg rheogoniometer
wild fibrous
Zygentoma