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
-opy
adactyl
advanced information systems
Ainsliaea caesia
antipathies
aquatic herbicide
basic feasible
bearing cup inserter set
betti's law
black as your hat
blackout varnish
blank sth out
bomb-crater
bus, backplane
canite
casting continuous
circular back section
coal conveyer belt
cognitive semanticss
coulomb scattering cross-section
cytostatics
dietz
diffuser thermometer
diffusing source
dischuffed
dispersed learning
electronic heat control
elephantine
embittered
emergency capecity
end lap joint
endomorphism ring of an Abelian variety
force of flexion
freestylers
fulvescens
fusibler
glaucosoma fauvelii
glomeruli of mesonephros
gozzo
gross investments
herb Gerard
history of plant and animal breeding
hungry aircraft
i- bar
Impatiens membranifolia
increasing order
ingress protection rating
inside ladder
intraglandular lymph nodes
Kadsura induta
knowledge resource
Lanthanotus borneensis
marketing tools
mazolytic
microbeads
multiple comparator method
naquetia triquetra
Ndasa
nee way
neo-familism
nga
noise squelch oscillator
normalized condition
o-phthalic acid
Octacontane
partitioned segmentation
pen-baseds
petersianum
pick huck
pile up the rocks
polystachyum
porniest
pretensed
protoctistans
pus-pocket
quadraunt
rapid hardening portland cement
rated discharge pressure
rauli
rigid truck
Ruska
security intelligence
self-dedication
serum inhibitor
sinistroversion
sintered magnetic material
spinach with poached egg
starcruisers
stellate bandage
stenocrotaphy
strong-coupling model
stylaris
sulcater
Togamycin
train to shovel ratio
Ulmus davidiana var. japonica
underfeatured
unrealistic
water cancer
wolley
xanthosomas
xenocyanine