【英语时差8,16】Nursery Rhyme: ‘Mary Mary’ 儿歌《玛丽小姐真倔强》
时间：2018-12-27 作者：英语课 分类：英语时差8，16
Nursery 1 Rhyme: ‘Mary Mary’ 儿歌《玛丽小姐真倔强》
Children singing: Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row.
Andrea: Yes, it’s a well-known English nursery rhyme. Morag Styles has been studying the meaning behind popular nursery rhymes.
Mary would appear to be Mary Queen of Scots with her gay 2 French background and her Popish inclinations 3. And of course the pretty maids would be the four ladies who were her ladies-in-waiting. And perhaps the cockle shells were the decorations on a dress given to her by the Dauphin.
I think it’s a bit like Mary is showing off about her garden a bit.The garden sounds really pretty and like she’s really rich and clever and sparkly 4.
There is a golden age of nursery rhymes in a sense from the reign 5 of about Henry the Eighth. So you’re talking early 16th century. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary in its current form only dates back to the 18th century so it’s clearly written a long time after Mary Queen of Scots existed.
People are always trying to work out the derivation of nursery rhymes and there’s no hope of ever identifying the true source of more than about a handful 6 of nursery rhymes.
Andrea: Morag says that it’s very difficult to work out the derivation of nursery rhymes. Maybe it was Mary had a little lamb: “Its fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go”.And I wonder what the story is behind that one.
- They have decided to start up a nursery in the factory.他们已决定要在工厂里开办一个托儿所。
- Her company ran its own workplace nursery.她的公司开办了内部的托儿所。
- I don't know he was a gay person.我不知道他是同性恋者。
- Spring comes round to the earth again and everything looks fresh and gay.春回大地，万象更新。
- She has artistic inclinations. 她有艺术爱好。
- I've no inclinations towards life as a doctor. 我的志趣不是行医。
- Gardens and fields, sparkly green, decorated the desert landscape like bright emerald necklaces. 一片挨着一片绿得发亮的花园和田园，活像晶亮的绿宝石项链点缀着这荒凉的背景。 来自教父部分
- Description of Moongate: Blue oval sparkly vortex as tall as a player and about as wide. 月门的描述：能容纳一个玩家高宽的椭圆形，里面是有火花的蓝色漩涡。 来自互联网