时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   开言主播大集合要为大家送上最诚挚的圣诞祝福,不过为什么其它节日祝福都是Happy,而圣诞节要用Merry呢?快听Jenny,Adam和Spencer告诉你!


  为什么是Merry Christmas?
  Google 这么说:
  "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" (thus incorporating 1 two greetings) was in an informal letter written by an English admiral in 1699. The same phrase is contained in the 16th century secular 2 English carol "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," and the first commercial Christmas card, produced in England in 1843."
  1699年一位英国上将在一封非正式的信里写到“Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”. 16世纪的英国圣诞歌里也包含了同样的说法“We Wish You a Merry Christmas”。而1843年英格兰的第一封市售的圣诞卡片上,也印有相同的祝福。
  我们的主播这么说:
  "Happy" is an emotional condition, while "merry" is a behavior. "Happy"感觉像一种情绪,而"Merry"感觉是一种行为,会要做什么事情来庆祝。
  比如,英语中有一种说法:
  The more, the merrier 越多,越快乐
  但是在英国,可能会说Happy Christmas
  British people say "Happy Christmas"
  北美主流还是Merry Christmas
  Wish you a very merry Christmas
  为什么是Merry Christmas?
  Happy Holiday VS. Merry Christmas
  美国是个多元国家,其实很多人不是基督徒,也不庆祝圣诞节,所以现在提倡大家说:
  Happy Holiday!
  特别现在媒体喜欢讨论政治正确,去宗教化,大家还会为这个争执起来:
  War on Christmas
  我们有一期会员课也特别讨论了这个问题:
  Advanced - Political correctness
  除了圣诞,其它节日都用happy
  其它节日,我们都要用Happy:
  Happy New Year! 新年快乐
  Happy Easter! 复活节快乐
  Happy Thanksgiving! 感恩节快乐
  Happy Birthday! 生日快乐!

1 incorporating
组成公司( incorporate的现在分词 ); 包含; 使混合; 使具体化
  • Wallis has developed a simplified analysis incorporating the same approximation. 威利斯曾结合同样的假设,做出了一个简化的分析。
  • Incorporating unique international filter technology to give a beautiful satisfying smooth cigarette. 结合独特的国际过滤技术提供一个美丽的满足顺利香烟。
2 secular
n.牧师,凡人;adj.世俗的,现世的,不朽的
  • We live in an increasingly secular society.我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会。
  • Britain is a plural society in which the secular predominates.英国是个世俗主导的多元社会。
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accustometh
Aethelings
alloying effect
alternaria leaf spot of crucifers
angle of flap deflection
ascus plug
astatic balance
be taken in the toils
better dead than red
binary fixed point constant
Bishops' Bible
Bojanov
braided cable
brownwood l.
bunt smut of wheat
buy-back
copula function
curtana
deformation dynamic inspection
delta-scattering method
dimethyl sulfate
dispersion warhead
Doroshata
double for
eats away at
edaphic climax
Ermidas
exports
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fling one's cap over the mill
fling one's cap over the windmill
focusing regulator
Gini coefficient of distribution of income
H and L hinge
hatchet work
have a heart attack
hexagonal brass bolt
himbos
Howard Prairie L.
hyponychon
incommixture
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instruction cache
Ixeridium sonchifolium
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key management system
Kisiju
kneecapping
line transient
lysised
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memorists
metastatic tumor of spinal cord
mildew-proof
Monobathra
multiple linear regression model
nonvalatile
Okoneshnikovskzy Rayon
out-swift
parnells
percentage of forest cover
pollinizes
Polygonum ellipticum
predicted intercept area
pseudoseta
purified protein derivate(ppd) of tuberculin
quasi-tort
removable disks
requirement for control of operational pollution
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rhagiocrine vacuole
ringing junction working
Rodley
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spaghettios
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subject analysis
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tegretol
terminal control codes
thaw of snow
the nineties
three-moment method
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ultrasonically
uncinata
undergo an operation
United Nations Day
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vehicle maintenance and repair indices
Verkhnyaya Serebryakovka
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Zlatoust
zonal westerlies
zoogleal matrix