时间:2019-01-30 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

 Widow's weeds: 寡妇的黑色丧服


时隔多年,再忆电影《飘》,印象最深的竟是郝斯佳身着黑色丧服、脚却跟着音乐的节拍在跳舞…… 英语中,“寡妇的黑色丧服”可用widow's weeds来表示。 很明显,weeds在此处可不是指“杂草”,而是“丧服”的特殊称谓。据词源学记载,weeds源于古日耳曼语,指的是“clothes”(衣服),9世纪末期被英国人广泛使用,当时可用单数。大约到了13世纪,“weed”或“weeds”统指“某一职业”或“某一社会阶层人”的装束,比如:a priest's weed(牧师服);a beggar's weeds(乞丐装)。 Widow's weeds可追溯到1595年,用来形容“妇女丧偶的哀悼标志”——戴黑色面纱,穿黑色丧服。 这里再顺便介绍一个weed的俚语用法“大麻”。德国蓝调歌手Sarah Connor有一首反毒品歌曲《等我》,其中有这么一句歌词:She was trying everything and more/Alcohol and speed, coke and weed and tried to score(她一直在尝试各种毒品/ 酒精,安非他命(兴奋剂),可卡因,大麻,而且还走私)。
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标签: 寡妇
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2-Hydroxyarctiin
Acayucan
acquiescence response set
advance person
Agogna, Torrente
alquerque
autoxidator
Barrocao
beyond the reach of
bistable device
bobtail pool
bring sb to heel
brute-forced
calfdozer
centralium (pl. -lia)
Certhia
Chassaigne
chimmer
christoforous
cinchonizes
civil sanctions
cold-front thunderstorm
complete orthonormal set
conditional limitation
consular invoice
continuous current at locked-rotor
cousinesses
craniospinal
crepusculous
cyclavithrosis
dobby loom
dojos
emitter pattern
enskilda
equation of higher degree
Escouloubre
falconine
fallopian tube
flame seal galvanizing
flash suppressor
forest officer
formicidaes
forward function identifier
gelivable
go voice
Grabowo
guessing-game
harmonograms
hexahydroxybenzene
high pressure liquid chromatography
high-frequency bridge
indicating guage
inferior wall
joint welding
Jose Ortega y Gasset
large-leaved magnolia
laurette
lead silver ore
legal value
library user education
LIPM
liquid column
Manuel Alves Pequeno, R.
Mararanjani
messencephalicus
method of point location
National Center of External Trade
on-board diagnosis
one's name is mud
opt in
pa-an (hpa-an)
pattern of flow
pellit
peri-acid
Poggendorff
polygonatums
powder feed rate
prevailing value
productive outlays
proper procedure
Proto-Philippine
ratio of net income to total asset
raw natural gasoline
roadway element failure
rottes
Salsola sinkiangensis
selsyn-type electric machine
server end
snowblading
steam-rollered
swine plague bacillus
thermally-massive structure
tinctorial power
total reflectometer
treehuggers
tritium discharge to the atmosphere
unsurrounded
Ustou
vertebra complex
wheat middlings
worsted yarns
zacherts