时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  19世纪70年代,Shindig在美国开始流传,表示“狂欢会,热闹嘈杂的舞会”。今天这个词已经很少听说了,但在表示讽刺和反语时还会用到。


  根据《牛津英语词典》的解释,shin-dig的更早用法可以追溯到19世纪40年代,仅表示“敲打胫骨”。可能在疯狂喧闹的狂欢舞会中,容易发生身体碰撞,甚至导致胫骨淤青或擦伤,因此后来的人们就诙谐地用shindig来表示这种狂欢聚会了。


  此外,另一种解释把shindig和shindy联系起来,因为shindy也有“奢华舞会,盛大的社交集会”的意思。Shindy出现在19世纪20年代,被认为和shinny(简易曲棍球戏/球棒)有渊源,shinny是用弯曲的棍子和一个球、罐头或类似的器具进行的一种不正规的曲棍球游戏,在学校里比较流行。


  至于shinny的来源没人能说清楚,但可能和游戏中的大声叫喊“Shin ye!”有关,指踢打对方队员的小腿胫骨。所以,说来说去,还是跟shin(胫骨)脱不了干系



学英语单词
a throne
account not in order
advanced deviation report
agamo-
alkyne
amide chloride
appenzell inner rhoden
automizer
barberry bark
biochipped
bobbin plate
bock (beer)
cantharidins
Canuckistanian
cartographic perception theory
cessative
Chaisaeng
clean timber
come down on someone like a ton of bricks
computer keyboard printer
context of treaty
continuous peeler
continuous value
conventional custom
cuesta slope
cylinder can
Dalbergia hupeana
darcets alloy
decision action
delamonts
duoden-
Earaheedy
economic royalists
EULAMELLIDRANCHIA
experimental detail
face-stalking
flagrants
Fluorigard
fondant paste
fonsecaea compactum
frequency spectrometer
gainband merit
gate trigger pulse
Gephyrostegoidea
gestetners
get one's point across
give something a wipe
grease kettle
guntiarius
half joint
Halochalcite
hard grace
herrerasauruss
hot water facilities
house service turbo generator
incretory organs
individual coaching
jagatais
JPDA
kidgell
lanostenepentol
LFAP
loovesum
magneto-dynamo
Medelim
moisturizing dryness-syndrome
Mylau
narrow-band transmission equipment
nondeterministic syntax analyzer
number of lengths
ozone seasoning
paraphrasia tarda
paxon
peronospora parasitica (person) fries p. brassicae g(a)umann
phaseolin
pheering
Piute
portable data terminal
pressure variance
primary anesthesia
public sign
radioactive single radial diffusion
raunescine
realignment escalation
sabine r.
scales
selenicon
sheg
shovelings
side-out
spatial disparity
steal heart
stone river
stuck in my heart
tantalum
taymiyya
tigrolysis
track mark
water cycle test
went downtown
weus
whistlewing