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.Eng.
accessory vertebral veins
activation barrier
affirmativist
Ajivika
Alexo
all going well
appeach
ashd
awareness-raising
blueman
Bovizole
branching atom
broken octave
Castlerea
chasis
chemomediator
Chetwode
chronic epididymitis
cobalt(ii) iodide
colo(u)r fastness
community-garden
compression of spinal cord
consequentially
consol (con)
DACAN
danny boy
demisexuals
design peaking factor
dexa
dichroic sheet
elbows
emergency power station
engine-driven blower
eremeyevite
fat thickness over rib per cwt carcass weight
fime stremaline body
fine-mesh sieve
foil metal
free radical initiation reaction
fringe magnetic field
gas specific gravity asymmtrical beam
get to your feet
gets you
glycophytes
gongyuan
grivet
hereditance
hood beasts
infraanal plate
intoed
intracavity resonantor
ironist
Jouaïya
keep it dark
la carnavale
laboratory sandbath
lift screw
lighter screw
loose thickness
lotar
lower block
lowoods
manipulating language
mathematical products
monocrotophos
nekrocoenose
Nuprl
occup
original handwriting or painting
peachleaf willows
Peter Paul
plantation niggers
public security harbor precinct station
radical word
rank of a node
read button
renouk
routine calculation
san marineses
servo-balance potentiometer
shop list
ski suit
socket head screw
spatial growth model
spatulate leaf
spraying anesthesia
statistical quantity
supererogative
sustained grade
tee bar
tetraantennary
tip condition
towards
transduction constant
triple scattering
tropical cell
understrapper
unibus
use-yellowing
venogram
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