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
-asauras
5-hydroxytryptophane
acid component
admittaunces
adventurously
Affade
Angola
annual audit report
Arnold,Sir Edwin
ball-winners
be stripped to the buff
blenderization
cefovecin
cell type
chabli
cinder box
coherent light communication
condenser injection cooler
coping skill
cranial puncture
cube texture
decomposition-coordination
dinard (dinard st. enogat)
double-bagger
equilibrium beam
etalon time
fourier optices
fretbuzzs
galactogogue action
glisindamide
global cooperation
go head to head
Groe-nouw macular corneal dystrophy
grunt fin cell line( gf)
hack the pie
hand lift jack
have a chat
have about one
head of the family
healdi
Heteropanope
histerid
hose wrench
husel
hypercorrection
igneous structure
ignition loss
inagosterol
internal thread grinder
intestinal obturation
laser assisted chemical vapor deposition
leafet
liberal feminist
lipopeptid
Lord's temporal
mainframe operating rate
mammeated
minicomputer peripherals
mirror matrix target
mortgage things
Moslemized
multi-organs
non-mainstreams
normal radioactive decay
offset glide
overall area
oxidation/fermentation
percentage analysis method
polynom(ial)
preoperative nutrition
pressurized component
pretermission
printed character recognition
production department
punch hole
quino
sample heat exchanger
saxicoles
sea-cabins
self-bred progeny
sex-discriminations
shared file
shift gate
society account
soil suitability
soy(bean) oil meal
strummy
stylonurids
submarine robot
suspended basket bath centrifugal
takka
thiophosphoryl amide
to wow
toupes
trailling vortex
trajectors
trilaurylamine oxide(TLAO)
unalteringly
us billboard
waterdrain
well off
wipe up