超囧的迎春方式：烧旧袜子
英语课
Encouraged by bright sun and 70-degree temperatures, Marylanders shed socks Saturday to celebrate the first day of spring.
In keeping with a 30-year tradition, sailors at the Eastport Yacht Club in Annapolis burned their socks at a waterside gathering 1.
Meanwhile at the docks of the Downtown Sailing Center in the Inner Harbor, sailors put a twist on the tradition and donated pairs of new socks to the Helping 2 Up Mission in East Baltimore. More than 700 pairs of new socks that would later be donated were tossed in one of the club's sail boats.
According to Annapolis lore 3, the sock-burning practice was initiated 4 in the late 1980s by Bob Turner, then the manager of the Annapolis Yacht Yard. In a telephone conversation Friday, Hecklinger recounted the oft-told story of the origin of the ritual.
To welcome the first day of spring, and relieve some of his frustrations 5, Turner took off his socks, put them in a paint tray, doused 6 them with lighter 7 fluid and set them ablaze 8. He toasted the arrival of spring with a cold beverage 9.
n.集会，聚会，聚集
- He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
- He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.传说；学问，经验，知识
- I will seek and question him of his lore.我倒要找上他，向他讨教他的渊博的学问。
- Early peoples passed on plant and animal lore through legend.早期人类通过传说传递有关植物和动物的知识。
挫折( frustration的名词复数 )； 失败； 挫败； 失意
- The temptation would grow to take out our frustrations on Saigon. 由于我们遭到挫折而要同西贡算帐的引诱力会增加。
- Aspirations will be raised, but so will frustrations. 人们会产生种种憧憬，但是种种挫折也会随之而来。
v.浇水在…上( douse的过去式和过去分词 )；熄灯[火]
- The car was doused in petrol and set alight. 这辆汽车被浇上汽油点燃了。
- He doused the lamp,and we made our way back to the house. 他把灯熄掉，我们就回到屋子里去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级
- The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
- The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
adj.着火的，燃烧的；闪耀的，灯火辉煌的
- The main street was ablaze with lights in the evening.晚上，那条主要街道灯火辉煌。
- Forests are sometimes set ablaze by lightning.森林有时因雷击而起火。
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