时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

 这周日是复活节。它为什么叫Easter? 和东方有什么关系?今天,我们就带你了解美国人有意思的复活节庆祝方式。


关键词:
为什么复活节叫Easter?
The modern English term Easter comes from the modern German Ostern, developed from an word that usually appears in the form ?astrun: 英语的Easter来自德语词 Ostern
关于ostern如何演变成Easter的传说有很多,最被广泛接受的是:
Ostern was the name of a goddess, which was associated with the month April when honor feasts were celebrated 1 in that month: Ostern是一个女神的名字,这个女神和四月相关,四月是春天、万物更新的时节,代表了“复活”、“重生”的概念
美国人怎么过Easter? 信教的人去教堂
Religious: 信教的、宗教的
Christian 2: 基督教徒
Catholic: 天主教徒
Church: 教堂
Church service: 教堂礼拜
Good Friday: 耶稣受难日 (复活节是每年春分月圆之后第一个星期日。每年日期不定,但基本上在3月22日到4月25日之间;Good Friday就是复活节那周的星期五)
Palm Sunday: 圣枝主日 (复活节前的那个星期日)
“复活”英语怎么说?
Jesus: 耶稣
Resurrect (动词): 复活
Resurrection (名词): 复活
Jesus was resurrected/Jesus risen from the dead : 耶稣复活
Resurrect这个词一般只用在耶稣身上;
如果你要说自己"满血复活”,不要用resurrect;可以说:
I'm back from the dead: 我满血复活了
复活节为什么叫Easter?
精心装扮去教堂
People make a point of dressing 3 up when going to church: 很多人会精心打扮去教堂、表示尊重
The Sunday dress: 周日去教堂穿的漂亮裙子
不信教,也有很多庆祝活动
Decorate Easter eggs: 装饰复活节彩蛋
Easter egg hunt: 复活节找彩蛋,是给小朋友设计的经典项目。彩蛋藏在花园各处,小朋友提着篮子去找
Easter bunny: 复活节兔子;兔子象征万物更新、生养众多,所以复活节庆祝活动上一定会有小兔子
Child-friendly: 亲子的、适合小朋友的
还能吃、吃、吃
Chocolate bunnies: 复活节巧克力兔子
Chocolate Easter eggs: 复活节巧克力蛋
Peeps: 棉花糖做的小鸡
Jelly beans: 豆豆糖、里根豆
Easter brunch: 复活节早午餐
Buffet: 自助餐
Commercialized: 商业化的
父母的噩梦
Kids tend to eat too much candy on Easter:小朋友复活节通常会吃太多巧克力和糖
They get sugar high and freak out: 导致 “sugar high", 太兴奋、情绪失控
去白宫找彩蛋
White House Easter Egg Roll: 白宫复活节找彩蛋活动;对公众开放,总统和第一家庭参与和小朋友同乐
White House Lawn: 白宫草坪
Register: 登记、报名
Tight security: 严格的安检

adj.有名的,声誉卓著的
  • He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
  • The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
adj.基督教徒的;n.基督教徒
  • They always addressed each other by their Christian name.他们总是以教名互相称呼。
  • His mother is a sincere Christian.他母亲是个虔诚的基督教徒。
n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料
  • Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
  • The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
学英语单词
adaptation syndrome
advanced industrial country
aglaonemas
alipoidic
Arkhangel'skoye
arteriograrm
atomist theories
backing of rafters
black ink figure nation
bunkums
bus-rod
Carex orthostachys
cartagenas
cognovit judgment
cold-pressing
common sequence
commutation zone
cutesy-pie
Dianhydrodulcitolum
drive sb potty
eirene
equal validity
Eradex
Esk.
ex officio magistrate
externa bark
fascial sheath of prostate
fast color
front elevation drawing
furacana(e)
Garciaz
general Cayley algebra
go off the boil
hard cosmic ray
Hemandifoline
highwayman
hybrid signature
i remember
imperial preferential tariff system
in a flutter
indium oxide
initial operation
Institution of Electronics
intensifer
kapaa
Keenania tonkinensis
Lancang
lesser curvature(stomach)
light diaphoretic prescription
living environment
lysionotin
meitneriums
microinfusion
miniatus
Muhlenberg, Frederik Augustus Conrad
non-experiences
non-prosecution
nonstandard bearing
off-street parking
ognissanti
os1 carpale distale secundum
palmicolous
phoneticism
plain hook
Poa attenuata
position dialing
postmodern campaign
pre-defense
precalcination
press corrector
pseudotuberculosis aspergillaris
pulsed aerosol generator
quality of tobacco
recombiner
register wheels
reserve protein
retailed
reverse multiple
rochate
roman churches
rudiments of tank gunnery
Schesaplana
self-revealings
short-lived radioactive substance
shottage
single event effects
sintered ferrous product
sleepy sicknesses
smaller whole tone
sonar optimum frequency
specific storage
spiderwick
Spinacia oleracea L.
tenoch
the top of the market
undiversifiable risk
Unitarian Universalism
unscheduled downtime
volumetric correction factor
Vostochnaya Litsa
water locust
whitemarsh