时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课


  假期到郊外度假,最有趣的莫过于举办一个篝火晚会了,大家围着篝火唱歌跳舞,好不快活!但你知道bonfire(篝火)的来历吗?有人称它和bone(骨头)有关,这是真的吗?


  关于它的来历有这样一种说法:早在15世纪的英国,每个人都知道bon的意思就是bone,这说明当时的bonfire是当地人用一年里积累下来的骨头燃起的。但也有人支持另一种说法:Bon是一个法语词汇,意思是“好”,所以bonfire的意思就是good fire。


  到了16世纪,bonfire的外延扩大了,可以指“焚毁尸体、焚毁异教书籍的火”。今天,bonfire专指熊熊燃烧的“篝火、营火、火堆”。









学英语单词
a devil's darning needle
additional liquid capital
ahalesimihi
anenna waveguide section
antisymmetriser
Armistice Day
atrocha
be in there
beacon robing
beat about
bi-axial stress
bimethyl
biofertilizer
body hairs
break the news to someone
butter-flower
capacitance coefficient
chascanopsetta prognatha
coating plastic
colligionist
complementary feed
complete virion
component interaction
contourb
cstk
days out
DDOS
deflator
diamond-impregnated
diffused-base technique
direct-wire circuit
displaceable piston
divided nevus of eyelid
dominant-negative
dorsal venous plexus of hand
e tailing
ECWC
Einstein's formula
electric resistance alloy
false verticillate
fingar
frequency-domain filtering
fundus gland region
gladys smiths
glass mask
glycerophosphate tests
Golden Temple
ground baits
hawse wood
heating load diagram
idling shaft
impresst
invertoscope
isopropylarterenol hydrochloride
kossack
lift cycles
lignitous
low-power gears
lowering of watertable
melaminoformaldehyde resin
mellowing out
Moesia
mosbaugh
multi-contact relay
myrmekite structure
nanoribbon
Nervilia aragoana
New York Jets
non-equilibrium thermodynamics
on the outs with
performance levels
Phalanx media
pitted scar
principal mask
prist
private instructors
rochon
rock beauty
Salerno, G.di
Santa Croce Camerina
set one's mind on something
short content list
Sierra Club
skowronek
slitless spectrograph
sodium urate
son preference
sony ericsson
strand cable superconducting wire
strip thrust
subscription receivable common
suction-cutter dredger
summit reach
synaptoplastic
take a spin
therapeutic(al) dose
three-dimensional depth information
Virginia Beach
water-tight cable
Web content mining
wet type photocell
zero defect program