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
a baptism of fire
A-bracket
acceleration stage
additional collateral
all-optic communication network
Amati Family
anatomic(al)
angle recoprocating compressor
antipreferential
antisurgical
befreed
board-level
bobbin bit
Boitzmann superposition principle
break of load
cadmium mercury
caffers
canine tooth
chun purple
CL leads
colliquative softe
colonial preferential duty
completely linear metric space
concertina fold
confined charge
cooperating agency
cunned
cut-out pedal
daily wagon requisition plan
decision support systems
decohering
demonomancy
Dischidia tonkinensis
dismiss
double-benched
emergency chiller
erysiphaless
federal type of cooperative
ferric trichloride
field of plane on manifold
foreign substance
fractional entitlements
fuze action
gourd vegetable
hadera
Harbour Dues on Cargo
Horace Greeley
hot insulation resistance
hunter/killer operations
intrical
lateral secretion theory
Logan slabbing machine
Malechowo
malony
mass game
merlis
metal hot dipping
monosomatic
Nahnsen zinc process
neboes
new-land
nightcaps
offshore navigation
overconsumes
papill? renales
photoconductive lag
phss
plain fixing bath
platinized
politics of cooptation
popelote
popych
print drier
proboscideous
protein denaturation
pulse-type transducer
rail bonding drill
retroduodenal fossae
ring type joint face flanged
saframycin
scal-of-two multivibrator
schlager
self-chambering
shatter index
silicates
sisleys
sleeper coach
sliding stay
software reconfiguration
sort work file
spark polishing
special privilege
sulphamidic acid
sure bet
sweating out
tag-question
terms of an agreement
the virgins
ventilating coaming
VIp-36
vomitoxin
wagon-head