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
agave rigida mill.
allotment ticket
antigenic modulation
bromophenyl-hydrazine
Bucherer-Curtius reaction
cash cropping
CBAV
client-server(qualifier)
collector overall coefficient of lossed
congolaise
coquilles
cylindrical vent
document handling apparatus
EACD
exposez
facial appearance
fairly-traded
fine dining
fixed-
flume conveyer
Geocyclus
gossip
gray-pink
greenlanders
guide wheel blade
Guotai
halo glaucomatosus
hand-held knotting device
hanshew
harlequin romance
have an aim
head-pan
Heikant
imidazolidine
impeller type log
incensory
inch-tool
industry zone
infractive index
inherent statistical uncertainty
integration services
inverting connection
ion drag
John Boynton
keep in the background
Kokanin
kovalik
leoth
leukocytic extract
loosened carbon
love making
mercury detector
method by inversion
microscopic strueture
mid-eightiess
molybdenum sulfide
motortype
myenteron
netid
ni-hard irons
Novomichurinsk
Ocracoke I.
Ophiorrhiza lurida
oral lore
overpronation
owner-ship
paloo
partial test
paucinervius
poisonous materials
powdered whiting
primary tectogenesis
punce
radecol
ramichloridium schulzeri schulzeri
relbapiridina
repor
reserving
rhodoflavin
rubber binder
self-living
shanghai customs
Share scleroscope hardness
side cooler
slipcovered
something is rotten in the state of Denmark
spatial arrangement
spiral molding
stemphylium botryosum
stripe code
supervision and administration
svcia (signaling virtual channel identifier a)
three-hanky
triple rocker
Troodon
two people
unlocking yoke cam driving wheel
untransmogrified
variable thermal control surface
version number
vocal motor amusia
White Lake National Wildlife Refuge