时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  假期到郊外度假,最有趣的莫过于举办一个篝火晚会了,大家围着篝火唱歌跳舞,好不快活!但你知道bonfire(篝火)的来历吗?有人称它和bone(骨头)有关,这是真的吗?


  关于它的来历有这样一种说法:早在15世纪的英国,每个人都知道bon的意思就是bone,这说明当时的bonfire是当地人用一年里积累下来的骨头燃起的。但也有人支持另一种说法:Bon是一个法语词汇,意思是“好”,所以bonfire的意思就是good fire。


  到了16世纪,bonfire的外延扩大了,可以指“焚毁尸体、焚毁异教书籍的火”。今天,bonfire专指熊熊燃烧的“篝火、营火、火堆”。









学英语单词
Abae
acceptable material list
acetone raffinate
acoustic phonon scattering
acute gangrenous appendicitis
adactylism
afforciaments
air blast injury
anagrammers
anticorrosion-alloy
arc of circle
asemantically
asperginon
automatic biological station
azotomycin
back-breaker
bad prognosis
biformity
block reamer
booster line
BSDL
can't cut it
churnover
Cizhu Wan
coded control field
communica
corpcral
cost restoration
dichloro-isocrotonic acid
disdain to do
dunno
dyssynchronization
engine wash
ethyl oenanthate
exempt dealer
expression language
fasciculus proprius
floating rake
follicly
frequency nonselective channel
gesture recognition
grain-oriented
harbo(u)r reach
hemorrhachis
Hobbists
impeachment proceeding
instruments panel
internal sequence number
Itō-dake
Karlsruher
knock pin
Lymphocytapheresis
machine check indicator
magne switch
main lines of communication
make one's bones
mansoniella kungi
medium-frequency band
metaxylem
microcircular technique
Moonlighcactus
motor with shunt characteristic
mucous bands
mycolith
nematoctonus leiosporus
noachic
opposite group
oryzacystatin
Oxford (Kidlington) Airport
padron
pauperisation
phosphoglyceride
physical effects
pi (pressure indicator or position indication)
pick-up cylinder chopper
president mckinleys
pseudocusp
purifier sieve
Quercus dolicholepis
quote image
redirection activeity
registered mail
reusable component
revolutionism
rhyll
RO43780
rock-built
seam fat
sex feathers
spigel
spiral mixer
standardizing centrifuge
storage cycle period
Strigeata
subcavitating propeller
suffrutices
symmetric check
tiller man rope
transport spacecraft
underseam
Van Dyck, Sir Anthony
zhelev