时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  19世纪70年代,Shindig在美国开始流传,表示“狂欢会,热闹嘈杂的舞会”。今天这个词已经很少听说了,但在表示讽刺和反语时还会用到。


  根据《牛津英语词典》的解释,shin-dig的更早用法可以追溯到19世纪40年代,仅表示“敲打胫骨”。可能在疯狂喧闹的狂欢舞会中,容易发生身体碰撞,甚至导致胫骨淤青或擦伤,因此后来的人们就诙谐地用shindig来表示这种狂欢聚会了。


  此外,另一种解释把shindig和shindy联系起来,因为shindy也有“奢华舞会,盛大的社交集会”的意思。Shindy出现在19世纪20年代,被认为和shinny(简易曲棍球戏/球棒)有渊源,shinny是用弯曲的棍子和一个球、罐头或类似的器具进行的一种不正规的曲棍球游戏,在学校里比较流行。


  至于shinny的来源没人能说清楚,但可能和游戏中的大声叫喊“Shin ye!”有关,指踢打对方队员的小腿胫骨。所以,说来说去,还是跟shin(胫骨)脱不了干系



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ace-inhibitor
adjustment of seasonal variations
after supper
animus possidenti
anthropobiologist
Asifa
astronomical eyepiece
autoscanner
beam current gain
bronchopathy
buffetings
burnout heat flux
camphoraidehyde
closed ball
computer-literates
context sensitive grammar
contrast staining
curled paralysis
Dalj
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demotees
dendranatomy
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deorbit burn
drive out the game
eccentric-looking
elastic money supply
Esperan
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flood by-pass
formic acids
get a rise out of
goniodiameter
grosshemin
heptaphane
hereditary form
igala
Ilex subcrenata
in Dutch
independent station
intravaginal culture
inventory of non-tariff barriers
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licryfilcon
line-fitting
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Longicil
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mannopyranosyl
micro slide
munye
net income to net sales
non-null hypothesis
non-trivial ring
observation deck
on-demand bond
one-tracks
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parts designation system
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social conformity
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step spectrum method
stitley
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takhi
Thiopan
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total discharge
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turn somebody adrift
uk telegraph
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vibrating grid
vigilancy
vitidaceaes
Vogel, Sir Julius
wanruly
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whiskerizing
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