时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  假期到郊外度假,最有趣的莫过于举办一个篝火晚会了,大家围着篝火唱歌跳舞,好不快活!但你知道bonfire(篝火)的来历吗?有人称它和bone(骨头)有关,这是真的吗?


  关于它的来历有这样一种说法:早在15世纪的英国,每个人都知道bon的意思就是bone,这说明当时的bonfire是当地人用一年里积累下来的骨头燃起的。但也有人支持另一种说法:Bon是一个法语词汇,意思是“好”,所以bonfire的意思就是good fire。


  到了16世纪,bonfire的外延扩大了,可以指“焚毁尸体、焚毁异教书籍的火”。今天,bonfire专指熊熊燃烧的“篝火、营火、火堆”。









学英语单词
alkali-chlorine cell
anaerobic power
anodolyte
answering set
assay pounds
aubarede pt.
azophenine
bank clerk
bankrupt director
bar bread
bias correction of measurement
Black Monk
bleeding test of greases
Braarudosphaera
braided cable
break factor
british-baseds
carboxypeptidase (a.anson 1935)
carries point
carry status
cemi-compounded molding sand
chordate families
clamoris formosana
compression-expansion refrigerator
contoocook
Crista nasalis
decreasing charge
deferred interest debenture
diagnostic write
Dimethylcaramiphene
directing control to system job
disperseness
distal ileitis
dorsolateral fissure
double-post bollards
Dr Crippen
drift nets
drug-distribution
dual taxation
dvortsovayas
elevated temperature tensile test
emetine
energy technique economy
epee fencing
extre
faceshield
ferrodynamometer
fetal electronic monitoring
firestorm
flaughter
football plays
Ftorlon
hagemeister
Hautecourt-Romanèche
have the law on
herzen
hot-line tool
iEverything
indicating lock
Jouhaux
lanolin-free
limited set
Lonicera pampaninii
magnetostrictive delay-line storage
main center
major yang consititution
malakichthys elegans
mandyu cotton
Medism
metal foil heat treating method
moncheur
natural environment quality
Network Control Panel
night offensive
nygro
occupation franchise
order testaceas
pageable link pack area
painted bunting
paperboard properties
pink salt
product abandonment
quadriplanar point coordinates
rate of surface runoff
re-inventions
sacral curve
scientific-technical rationality
sestines
short sea trader
sinless
stack machines
stomach-turnings
Sulcatostrophia
superneutralities
Svobodnenskiy Rayon
synchronous coordinate system
thorian
three furnace process
three-halfpennyworth
threehour
Vasiliya, Ostrov
ziggzag