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
approach gradient
arache
arbitration tribunal
at larger
Aynac
Barcaldine
barn star
beating a retreat
Befunolonum
blew your mind
borehole sectional steel drilling
Burmannia itoana
cathode screen
caustic soda cell
cent sign
central graphite rod
cesspit
Cevitex
cigar-cases
Codonopsis cardiophylla
colletotrichum caspsici
combination caliper
complex numeric data
darcets alloy
DC to DC converter
demutualises
deutration
developmental research
dichiara
down flow apron
drainage cycle
driftlessness
encephalization
European plum
eutectic crystal
false roof
film take up chamber
fly beam
for the asking
fumade
geneva index
get it into one's head that
give the floor
glickes
glycerinized
Goldscheider's tests
guanine deoxyribonucleoside
guaracha (cuba)
hand sample cutter
high-speed algorithm
hyperfine component
laforce
left gastroepiploic vein
lustrous finish
machinous
main piston ring
mesocolon transversum
mixing pelletizer
multi-chips
multicolour cloth
nadir
near-gales
Neo-Rontyl
neurocoel
original responsibility
ostial valve
oversized cargo
phylogenetic character
pole-jumping
preconsider
pretwist
priority communication multiplexer
puffing machine
reinsurance pools
residuality
rumex obtusifoliuss
scuzzball
shale tar
shared access routine
similar chiral centres
sinuitids
sinus phrenicocostalis
spectral holography
submarine pipeline
Sudat
sunspot penumbra
tactical instructions
take actions
take the world as one finds it
takes a leak
taxicab industry
tea board
temperature defect
test module
time average fringe pattern
user demand
violation of laws
weighing buret
winter melons
zoologists