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
aesthetic encounter
anaematopoiesis
angioneurectomy
antiadrenergic drug
arithmetic trap enable
Articulatineae
asummable
austro-hungarians
bull headed rail
Campylobacteraceae
cathedral school
cholesterolemias
Clark's butter
Cold Lake
come unhinged
continuous duty rating
contracted jaw
copake
deformation under load test
digitally
directional blasting closure
ecological deterioration of mining area
exocentrus savioi
expanded perlite aggregate
folioser
for the love of mercy
gas cooled reaction
genus Scabiosa
global coordinate
Harhiraa Gol
headers
hecamede persimilis
Hegglin
Hewitt, Lleyton
Huguier's gland
hypericem sampsonii hance
hypermetabolic
in controversy
individual farmer
inferior branch
intermunicipal
invariant subalgebra
investment process
ir linescan (irls)
Kelvin element
lamb's bread
marine documents
mcbey
micro-locations
misbranding
Mission Saved
monochrous
nature of work
near-equilibrium state
nursery web spiders
O&MR (operations & maintenance remainders)
olympic committee
order-based system
originalistic
orthogonality relation
ozonisers
passbook loan
pentjak
pgs
ph cell
plasma control
polar cone
porolithon
PPKD
pre-cold-frontal squall line
pressure-depth meter
psallops leeae
pyramid of third order
quantization uncertainty
rate-of-turn gyroscope
rectly
right of retention
running-shoes
screen write transaction program construction
sentineling
shaken up
some way
spot curer
stratigraphic control
strychninolic acid
subaerial eruption
sunderbans
superbad
systematic design
telephone answering and recording set
telereality
theodolite magnetometer
thermocompression bonder
till roll
to bash
Trebur
vanish into the blue
vapor proof
voragious
we-no-nah
workhardening
write line