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. centralis retin?
abscess of epididymis
adjacent colour
Aidoneus
alcoholic paranoia
algebraic coding technique
alternate material
anhydraemia
arbela simplicipes
audio scanner
automatic set-up
back quote
carboloy dioxide storage plant
clarke's spheroid
clear flour
compression set
concealed malice
control-freak
denasality
depth of colour saturation
discarded product
docking bridge awning
drumhead court-martials
early-out
easyvision
editorialises
elevating angle
Enzopride
external delays
fast database access
fire -resisting
first cranial nerve
floating pipe
garden trucks
get fresh with
glycamide
ground loops
half-wave zone
hanging layer
have the needle
heterotrophic microbe
honey bees
Huynh Tan Phat
Ihrigizing
immersion hand
indolene
iodine well
IOTP
kassal
keep alive arc
l.s.c.
Lesin
machine reel
manilabiability
More-ish
motion of urgent necessity
multiple congenital articular rigidity
multiple horn
multistage probability problem
mylophore
N-acetylglucosaminylphosphotransfe-rase
navigation period
nickel alloy chill roll
normal open control element
nubbinesses
original data
orthogonal transformation group
phagicin
plasm (or blood-plasma)
plastic-molded
plate of distributor
Pogostemon dielsianus
Pothos cathcartii
pressed pipe
pulviograph
pureed
R.M.S.on-state current
receiver matrix
reconnaissance range
rhachimorphous
Sarangani B.
selection pulse
serviceless
Silhouette Island
slidebar
small shutdown spheres
specialized equipment
spring shim
spurious revenues
subtractive color system
sudbrook
Swart, Charles Robberts
sweepsaw
Tasmania, State of
tracing stand
uncanonically
user microprogrammer
vertical branch
vestigial muscle
water ballasting
Whitemoor
wool spinning