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
Abkhazia
all-purpose meter
american hellebores
anerethisia
APRAC
argyr.odite
attemperly
bicycle test
black knot of plum
black mallees
bloostein
bustiest
buy for the account
bye-pass
central minute counter hand
chuck wrench
Cock's peculiar tumor
common grade
complement inhibition test
constant rate frequency changer
cornerlights
cross-tree
cutting depth
decommunized
depth-interviewing
desertive
despisingly
Deutschlandlied
di-(4-phenyl isocyanate) methane
direct-operated relief valve
drye
electron-bombarded amorphous silicon
emergency braking control relay
energy terminal
exchange rate margin
formeagre
genus Acanthoscelides
grading of occupations
h-x
havocs
horzontal measure
industrial graphic display system
innum
internal screw finish
Iwate-san
Joy doubled-ended miner
Juris affectus in executione consistit.
lattice vacant site
leading buoy
linsey-woolsey
logical access path
Lower Silurian Series
lower-yield
m-xxl
map interlinking
Marat, Jean Paul
maternal uncles
mill scale
minimisings
mission-planning
mobileTV
moisture adhesive moisture
natronamblygonite (natramblygonite)
nigiri
opus signinum
outwrestling
Parcillin
pencil of curves of the second order
perispicular spongin
plan monitoring
playing lighthouse
POLCON
prefrontal lobes
procto-elytropiasty
r.a.a.f.
radiation emissivity
rhachi-
rightmost terminal set
rii
rinji
Saratoga spittlebug
sericulturists
shoot a glance at sb
simple coppice system
spread spectrum multiple access
spur-winged plovers
stampt
stravens
styli-
syllabography
thermoelectrical colorimeter
time interleaving
time study people
triadelphous stamens
trisannulation
urethral prolapse
venatory
Wife Swap
wool grease pitch
Yagishiri-tō
Yazdan
young bird