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
adsorption phenomenon
agricultural indicator
AHIC
alarm typer
amplitude discriminator
anchor space
aumonier
axis shift
bacne
balies
bar food
batracin
boom topping lift
braas
broncobuster
bun ochra fibre
C-SLIP
cable pipe
centre brake drum
cinnamomum camphoras
condenser motor
congriscus megastomus
core shift
crocco theorem
deciduas
deflagrators
dehydrated potato powder
Dendrobium primulinum
Deutzia heterophylla
drift epoch
drosophila (sophophora) lucipennis
electric mo(u)lding machine
English mounting
Enhanced Indexing
enregistrate
ento-ectad
Erb-Goldflam
Exchange Ratio
flat-bed chromatogram
flue dust
genitourinary system
hakas
Hamatonbetu
highflyer
hinger
hydrargillite
hydrogen selenide
hypopolyploid
job memory
Karabukhino
labor supply
languished
laryngo-
lauterbur
lunks
mandement
manual release
mass analyzed ion kinetic energy spectrometry
Matabeleland South Prov.
mean diurnal motion
meningeal leukemia
misdeserts
Monroyo
multifilamentary composite superconductor
Mānikgarh
nail pulling
nonearly
Oates, Titus
optical ray
paktong
pewabic
plant-level
preiotated
qlty.
quasi longitudinal wave
radial pin coupling
redirections
regulation of a constant-current
remodulates
rond-de-cuir
roundhand
setback force
skifter
sound motion picture
spectator art
spectrum prism
subcutaneous nodule
tactical communication system
the rising generation
thin goldfilm resistor
Thiobacilleae
three-speed gear box
thymol salicylate
tovet
true emulsion
unified price policy
Ventriculojugulovenostomy
vibrator feeder
vicksburgs
Walney, Isle of
wouldn't
yarn cleaning device