时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  信天翁(Albatross)是一种濒临灭绝的珍贵海鸟,这个单词同时还有“沉重负担”的意思,这是为什么呢?


  Albatross的起源可追溯到17世纪晚期,很可能是西班牙语alcatraz(鹈鹕,塘鹅)的变体,后来受到了拉丁语alba(白色)的影响,因为信天翁多为白色。


  信天翁是一种大型水鸟,几个世纪以来,水手们认为在海上看见信天翁象征着好运。至于怎么把信天翁和沉重的负担扯在一起的,那可要“怪罪”诗人Samuel Taylor Coleridge了。1798年,他写了一首名为《The Rime 1 of the Ancient Mariner》的诗,讲述了一个水手在同船伙伴惊异的目光中,射落了一只信天翁,结果给这艘船带来了可怕的诅咒。其他的船员强迫这个倒霉的水手将那只死去的信天翁挂在脖子上作为惩戒。直到几乎船上的每个人都死掉时,这个水手终于真心地忏悔自己的错误,最终得以卸下一直在折磨他的沉重的负担。


  从上世纪30年代起,Albatross就被用来表示“讨厌的负担,恼人的累赘”。



n.白霜;v.使蒙霜
  • The field was covered with rime in the early morning.清晨地里覆盖着一层白霜。
  • Coleridge contributed the famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner.柯勒律治贡献了著名的《老水手之歌》。
学英语单词
a busman's holiday
aerobic biological fluidized bed
aggraded flood plain
all purpose mount
ambassadry
Analogue.
angular repetency
ansr
apo-beta-erythroidine
Arnie
bank debt
Betzigau
bi-partite
bouabid
boxer indemnity
BrdU(bromodeoxyuridine)
capacity controlling gear
cerambycoid larva
chainotte
chantelle
climbing helmet
color group
constant level surface
cupric sulfite
deep focus eathquake
dipriodonta minima
discontinuity hypothesis
double-dink
e-filing
Eagle L.
facultatively
food net
ground rent receipt
half angle of entrance
Haplostracus
harmful act
harvard regions
hollands vocational preference inventory
hood for fumes
hortyards
hymenal caruncles
hyperemia test
input module
intercontinental trunking
iwamura
izz
jugary
keep up the good work
knee-highs
land phosphate
liripipe, liripoop
long staple cotton
lourdais
mandibular staple bone plates
Mekane Birhan
melts
microinsularity
microvoltomete
Mies Van Der Rohe
minivacuum
mother-cloud
myxofibroma
NBTS
nucleus ventromedialis hypothalami
oedocephalum guadalcanalense
osmerid
Ostjuden
person-centred
phospholipins
pseudocysticercus
range straggling
restless viewer
reverse anchor
rhizoctonia asparagi fuckel
right division algorithm
rugulous
Ryojun
sawtooth truss
Scandometer
scrootch
secondary gleyization
self-aligning coupling
self-excited circuit
semi-outdoor power plant
shoot an arrow at
Stephania miyiensis
Streptococcus pyogenes longus
suction cutter
suturae symperitonealis
Tenalin
thief tester
toshibas
trajans
twin arithmetic units
UCPP
unbribable
until then
use one's noggin
vibrating plate furnace
Virgo A
Ximenesia encelioides