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
acrylic resin coating
active vibration isolation
Alocin
alternative optimum
anteraxanthin
anti-codon
anticarious primer
automatic adressing
awfulnesses
bambusa vulgaris striata
base grid
be fitted with
boddom
Bolan Pass
bumper stickers
chip area
copper-fastened
cost ledger
crocoxanthin
crosstree mast
cuk
deep of sowing
disquietment
distance geometry
double precision type
eadquarters
filament-wound
flase zero
Franconi's disease
frequency translation equipment
garfunkle
genecentre
gland puncture
glours
golden globes
grease-burner
greceteria
Haramsan
Heenan dynamic dynamometer
International Maritime Consulative Organzation
intralimbic gyri
intrusive luxation
irredeemable currency
jamboks
Kralanh
L.A.S.
lead rod
Leblanc exciter
line error
linsenmeier
Luong Phu
mesdicaine
mobcap
multiplex aeroprojector
Naga-shima
nevus elasticus of lewandowsky
non deductible franchise
o-o
o-xyloquinone
out-of-roundness for shell
outwinter
pilou
pipe resonator
pneumatic bag
pneumato hydatogenetic
pnxt
postate
program route control
put into print
quadpots
quadratic diameter
rack cutting
rattany
repetitive peak-inverse
resilient spacer
rubus peltatus maxim.
Rābigh, Jab.
sales territories
samsa
sarganzite (braunite)
seldin
semiminor axis
stem band
symbol table entry
symperitoneal suture
synchrinizer
system of public service
ternary number
thermal hazard
transverse part
tripes and keister
tschernichewite (chernyshevite)
tudoran
unfluxible
uprooteth
variable transformation
velocity spectrum analysis
villards
widom
yellow-crowned