时间:2019-03-05 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   今天是3月17日。在欧洲、北美,甚至国内,很多外国人都会戴上绿帽子。因为今天是爱尔兰的盛大节日:St. Patrick's Day (圣派特里克日)。这是一个外国人放飞天性的节日:穿绿衣、戴绿帽、喝啤酒!快跟Jenny, Adam感受吧!


  关键词:
  3月17日是圣派特里克节:
  St. Patrick's Day: 圣派特里克日的全称
  St. Paddy's Day: 更口语的说法, 爱尔兰人也被称为Paddy
  An Irish holiday: 是个爱尔兰的节日
  Widely celebrated 1 across Europe and North America: 但在欧洲、北美广泛庆祝
  Commenmorate Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland: 节日纪念爱尔兰的守护神圣派特里克
  Green is the color of Ireland: 绿色是代表爱尔兰的颜色
  Green everything on St. Patrick's Day: green hats, green clothes, etc: 所以圣派特里克日到处都是绿,绿帽子、绿衣服
  St. Patrick's Day parades: 圣派特里克日庆祝游行
  绿帽子
  "绿帽子"在英语里完全没有中文的含义。
  英语里等同“带绿帽子”的说法:
  To cheat on one's husband/boyfriend
  To go behind their back
  To have an affair
  这个原因让外国人戴绿帽子
  全民喝嗨
  不仅爱尔兰庆祝圣派特里克日,美国、加拿大也有盛大的庆祝。
  Lots of early immigrants to America were from Ireland: 美国很多早期移民都来自爱尔兰
  They brought their culture with them: 他们带去了自己的文化
  Many non-Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day: 现在很多非爱尔兰人也会庆祝圣派特里克日
  Irish pubs are very popular in North America: 爱尔兰酒吧在北美也很流行
  Old-fashioned decor, down to earth: 酒吧的装修风格都很老,接地气
  St. Patrick's Day is a day of drinking: 喝酒庆祝圣派特里克日
  英语“喝醉”怎么说?
  下面3个不同的词,形容不同醉的程度,由轻到重排列:
  1) Get drunk:醉了
  2) Get wasted:很醉
  3) Get hammered:大醉
  圣派特里克日还有个别名:
  Amateur night: “业余酒鬼夜”,因为很多平时不怎么喝的人也会在这天狂欢、喝醉
  喝什么?
  St. Patrick's Day当然要喝爱尔兰的国民啤酒:
  Guinness: 吉尼斯/建力世
  The world's most famous dark beer: 世界最著名的黑啤
  The Guinness World Records: 吉尼斯世界纪录就是这家啤酒公司创立的
  除了带绿帽子 男人还要穿裙子
  注意:爱尔兰、苏格兰、威尔士男士的传统格子裙,不叫skirt或者dress。而叫:
  Kilts: 爱尔兰、苏格兰、威尔士传统的男人裙子
  Tartan: 格子
  Tartan kilts: 格子裙

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。
学英语单词
aligning stiffness
arusha convention
be valid for
benchmark set
bitter tonic
black coast
boxcar figures
brachionus quadridentatus brevispinus
bremsstrahlung energy
cainotheres
calibrated oscillator
cathartic acid
centres
chenou
clam bed
common of turbary
cover wrapping machine
creevy
cross-stimulation
crystallizing system
current account balance sheet
dating service
decelerability
demosaicked
dual release
edge-punched punch
entry for consumption
evaluative diversity
explosion gasdynamics
fei ling p'ao
fill material
flow rate indicator
flue cleaner
football pyramid
forward azimuth
free flow(pneumatic)
gas receiver
geddis
grade crossing
group training
have a nose
hedge-hopping
hematocyturias
isobarically
ivorie
Kenacort
knock ... out of
Koktuma
land smoothing
Lannavaara
Laurus nobilis L.
lentor
line single
linear sensitivity measure
long-wave radio astronomy
loss-in-weight feeder
low-power and mixed signal processing
mcculley
medievalize
metal electro sparking work
multiaccess system
Nazoreans
odalisque
operation research
outbound personnel
outvoiced
paternal qualities
pipe cooling
polysaccharides
pro rata share
proliferating diabetic retinopathy
propagation effect
prourokinase(pro-UK)
qses
rapid-return motion
rational-emotive
reading optical
Reghin
repercussives
required data destination
rock-ore formation time interval
root apex
Sekiyado
selling charges
sew up
siemens-martin furnace
somrais
spine fracture
Spirillum phosphoresens
stereocartograf
sterlinghillite
stroyed
subsidiary insurance
surface of operation
tidal respiration
to be free of
toboggans
trace detectors
trapezoidal share
tropical cloud cluster
Vercyte
zone of saturation