boafire的词源

英文词源

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forgive

forgive: [OE] Forgive is what is known technically as a ‘calque’ or loan translation – that is, it was created by taking the component parts of a foreign word, translating them literally, and then putting them back together to form a new word. In this case the foreign word was Latin perdōnāre ‘forgive’ (source of English pardon), which was a compound verb formed from per- ‘thoroughly’ and dōnāre ‘give’ (its underlying sense was ‘give wholeheartedly’). These two elements were translated in prehistoric Germanic times and assembled to give *fergeban, from which have come German vergeben, Dutch vergeven, and English forgive.
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中文词源

boafire：篝火

bonfire（营火，大篝火）这个充满欢乐的字眼却有着可怖的历史。16世纪时，bone（骨殖）写作baee，当时的“篝火”写作banefire，因为当时的篝火尤指用尸骨点燃的大火，尽管这种燃尸为火的行为要比这个词早得多。亨利八世统治时期（1509-47），他命令圣徒死后火化，然后让信徒们从灰烬中寻取圣物。好在bonefire终于摆脱了bones，成了今天的bonfire。

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