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
'scuses
amyloidosis cutis
anisic acids
Arenaria stricta
average rate of profit
Bacterium friedianderi
Baedeker's
blidas
block with cross mortise
braking gear
calcareous algae
camazotz
cambered mould
chauliac
Ché Ché
combined tedder and side rake
condensation at low temperature
condition name description entry
country cream soup
cuvet adapter
d-x
Desmodus rotundus
detenu
dicyclooctatetracene-neptunium
Doubtful Bay
draine
evaluate the fuels
fades-out
gap mutation
garden bean
gas entrapment
glycogenic
goat grass
greenhouse gases
grouselike
grumulous
Hardy, Mt.
head of bay
heavy coating arc electrode
heinmaa
high-pressure exhaust pipe connection
high-speed type end mill
hybrid weakness
hyperbolic cone
indatraline
juilland
kabylie (kabylia)
kilo watts
kybed
Kållered
lakisha
linear incision
Liomycin
Medinilla
micro-geomorphology
microbrowser
middle-clicked
mix up something
modular converter
monosulphides
multiplicative congruential generator
neckmolds
new zealand mountain pines
nodulous
non-member shareholder
noncyen
outlay for advertisement
papahood
paper electrophoresis
partial-panel flight
per saltire
plunger armature
polyfon
rapting
reblasted
recapturer
revcounter
rigid helmet
rod-like crystal
sawte
Saxifraga yezhiensis
separate nuclei hypothesis
sequence control tape
shed split
sithment
stupeous
subjective acoustic characteristics
synthetic fabric
take one's foot in one's one's feet in one's hands
teem with
telmophages
tentorial angle
tetragonal tetartohedral class
three-stage launcher
to trump
toluenesulfonyl ethylamine
top two way fired soaking pit
tube Debove's
Veranopolis
wallaroos
Zamboanguita
zoppa (italy)