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
(musculus) obliquus externus abdominis
Ahlhorn
alto saxhorn
Ampelocissus hoabinhensis
apocrine cystadenoma
applied electrochemistry
banig
Bermuda plan
bilzerians
blanking with opposed dies
carbitol acetate
card-players
central shut-down rod
cincinnati bowtie
communication line adapter
conditional power supply panel
copper-belly
cuckooflowers
directed reading thinking activity
drag in by head and shoulders
earthquake risk
editing controller
elapid snakes
fagarine
fidelio
flare processes
Flem.
floriades
foliose lichen
fourble board
galllium halides
gear changing
gender discourse
gold import
grid reference system (grs)
habenaria eleganss
hollow groove
humoristically
indicator for the information society
indow
koivu
korectopia
large-duty loader
Lasianthus wallichii
letter fs
maukish
maximum stage
melancholizes
metamethods
metoquim
micro-segregation
molded-plastic
moorcoal
mortice
multitasking options
Mus-Khaya, Gora
neutron spectrum hard-ening
Nghi Khanh
ofeq
onion-peel dermatomes
ophichthys macrochir
outside manufacture
paperknife
pappardelles
paw paw patch (usa)
pholidolite
polacolors
popovs
positive negative three-step action
premaxillary gland
probabilistic models
prosti-tot
quesadillas
read/write random-access memory
reciprocal articulation
return flanging die
Rhein River
risk-return analysis
sagehood
semirigid cable
simple regression
single-state recycle
spathic iron ore
STHRF
sustained wind
talk sb out of sth
technology equipment for insulation glove
televised microscopy
the king
thermoelements
theromorphism
thumbers
tubesnout
variety of universal algebras
visus acrior
Volstead
volume coverage
were to do
width gage
win-win strategy
yeast one-hybrid system
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