时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  我们大家都知道著名的万圣节前夕Halloween,可你知道Halloween的前夕有些什么样的叫法吗?


  Halloween是10月31日,在凯尔特旧历里相当于“除夕”。在美国、加拿大以及英伦诸岛,孩子们穿着各种奇异有趣的服装,带面具或化浓妆,走家串户接受款待,并搞些恶作剧来庆祝这个节日。Halloween又叫做诸圣节前夕,因为根据天主教教义,11月1日是诸圣节(All Saints Day, All Hallows Day or Hallomass),之后的11月2日则为万灵节(All Souls Day),又称追思亡者节。Hallow起源于halig(holy的古英语形式),而Halloween实际上是All Hallows Even的简称,据说那天死者的灵魂会来拜访他们生前常去的地方。


  Halloween的前夕,即10月30日,爱玩爱闹的美国人早就按捺不住了。在美国的不少地方,人们早早就准备好各种玩具和游戏,开始了他们的“恶作剧之夜”(a night for tricks and pranks),有些性急的小孩子也早早就敲响了邻居家的大门,开始“乞讨”食物。在美国东部某些地区,人们把这一天叫做Devil's Night或Mischief Night(在密歇根州的底特律一带,Devil's Night还不幸地造成了可怕的纵火传统。)在美国东部其他地区和中西部,人们还把10月30日叫作Trick Night,Corn Night,Tick-Tack Night或者Goosy Night。此外,在东北一带,如新泽西,还有Cabbage Night的说法。


  科幻作家雷·布拉德伯里(Ray Bradbury)在1962年出版的代表作《魔法当家》(Something Wicked This Way Comes)提到过Cabbage Night。这个词可能最早出现在20世纪初期,至于为什么要用卷心菜来代表这一天,可能是因为节日里顽皮的孩子们喜欢拿“价廉物美”的卷心菜来搞恶作剧,用菜汁来涂抹玻璃,或者在邻居的门口敲打卷心菜,制造出沉闷的重击声来吓唬人;甚至把腐烂的卷心菜叶子倒在受害者的门廊里,使之散发出臭呼呼的味道。



学英语单词
abased
ACH
acid dew point corrosion
active defence against locusts
administration of research activities
airplane balance
AMPS
antherigona (acritochaeta) nigripes
anticipatory government
antislip strip
asecretory
bad-talk
base load, baseload
basic weight
be well oiled
belt pulley
bioecological factor
blackmuns
bowable
bryozoologist
by
cash insurance
classification of liabilities
demagnetism
diffusional authority
discharge measurement
discount from asset value
down trend
embossingflask
end of selection signal
error pattern generator
escape pods
fusenhai
gas packing
Gentiana elwesii
geratology
gibelite
gluteofascial
handy sized ship
heriots
histogram of irrigation water use
homogeneous steel
hot melt method
imidotriphosphoric acid
in a little while
indirect acting mutagens
input/output request
intergalactically
joint cross pinblock
leadership traits
Leibovitz
ligament alare
lighter capacity
line-by-line calculation method
locomotive tractive effort curve
mark sense sheet
maximum midexpiratory flow
maz-
metallographic phase
Michelia longistyla
microtapes
military airlift
mizz
moththe
mysap.com
nicorol
output file
overdesigning
overdetermination
pick-up boat
pirojki
prooftext
pteris tripartita sw.
raschko
regional and departmental interests
renewal of reinsurance contract
royces
scavan
security flow analysis
short of something
Silvera, Pta.
single-trace magnetic head
Staublawine
sugar-refinery
taking-up lever catch
to be
topel
traube murmur
traveling expense
truck mounted mixer
turbinate scissors
turn-on power dissipation
turnmeister
unstraps
uterlfixtion
view source
viewer control
virtual memory address formation
William Tatem Tilden Jr.
withering period
wonkery
zilog z80a