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
act of dominion
adighting
algo
anastopoulos
aphasias
arccosines
asa-foetida
aurinol
basic meaning
bill of lading act
blows off steam
burtonports
butterfly throttle
California coffee
choice of importing equipment
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
classical topology
clothes designer
cold-trap
communication link controller
compassionate-use
composite credit appraisal
concertized
creditrice
crocose
decomposition texture
default assumption
drilled valve head
ethylene-vinylacetate copolymer
farmacie
fibrillogenic
fictionize
FRACP
Fraxinus nigra
gayful
genus erithacuss
geological prospecting
gilled cooler
graphite-uranium ratio
greyhound racing
handbook of inspection requirements
inaction
index of refraction of light
infrared spectrograph
irany
isetan
joculator (england)
k-cup
koharski
literal translation
loop row
mandylors
mechanical-loss
middle man
morning-noon-and-night
necked part
neodymium magnet
nitrobacterias
Nocardia somaliensis
nonagreements
nozzle jet dryer
operation controlled by extraction
out of order
overruning brake
parlkaline
peacham
pickup mark
pitch shots
polar fox
polytrophic egg tube
prototypically
puberty
request queue
rounded sand
scoop neck
shuttering mark
snowdogs
spreadometer
spring loaded valve
stable platform
step expression
streetfight
subsistence levels
super-high frequency
supercede
the flap of an envelope
tibetan sheep
tornado warning
unintermittedly
unworthness
urocaudal
vacuum pressure valves
Vida Guerra
vietnameses
wave momentum density
waved spring
weathering deposit
weisl
wire plotting
Xizangia
yen-bay
zinc-base bearing alloy