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
a bird's - eye view
adjourn for
ahemeral
analytical chromatograph
angioelephantiasis
Apocr.
bacteria of alcaligenes-group
balanoposthomycosis
barrier synchronization
biharmonic equation
bioarray
bollings
Brekstad
cabinet debugging
caller's logic address space
candlestand
Chegar, Sungai
choke coupling
compositure
concurrent punishment
conduit reducer
controllable register
countervisions
creep-fed
crossline direction
cul-de-sacs
daddies
e-zelle
extra-tapetal membrane
Filariata
Fire Island
flagler
flower bed?
fly-tying
Fovea submandibularis
freezing oil
full-scale crash test
gemnivirus
give it to someone
Higgins furnace
high technology industry
horsemanships
in contumaciam
inelastic loading
ineradicability
interacinar pancreatitis
interpreter programming
Jibsh, Ra's al
Lake Onega
lichen ruber planus
linear-sequence code
male engine
Mamers
misconduct oneself
moderate rainfall
mystagoguery
natural unemployment rate
nummular eczema
obstreperous
once-forgotten
paranaspia coccinea
particle movement
PBPND
personised
phase-shift coding
pilot wire
public housing funding system
refricapageration city
replaceable
Respectfully yours
riverine rabbit
RMS detector
satellite links
scarus xanthopleura
Schieren
selinia pulchra
spiral equipment for cleaning
stand in the doorway
steel planing
subsidiary accounts
sulfanilylxylamide
superfamily platyrrhinis
synonymities
talent-search
temporarily suspended
tighten the screw
topgallants
trustinesses
Ueda Akinari
unshakens
up against
valuation reserves
vertical drill
Viminaria denudata
working platform
wrist watch plant
Wyeth's method
xiphisternum (or ensiform appendix)
yalies
yogee
yolk cells
ywyl