hogmanay: [17] Hogmanay is the Scottish term for ‘New Year’s Eve’, and so might reasonably be supposed to be of Gaelic origin, but in fact it is not. It appears to come from hoguinané, the Norman dialect version of Old French aguillanneuf, a greeting given when exchanging New Year’s gifts (and possibly a contraction of accueillis l’an neuf ‘welcome the new year’).
雙語例句
1. Cameron: Ah that's because I went home to Scotland for Hogmanay.
卡梅倫: 我回故鄉(xiāng)蘇格蘭過霍馬內(nèi).
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2. Freddie: Hogmanay? What's that? It'sounds like an illness.
弗雷迪: 霍馬內(nèi)? 那是甚 麼 ?聽來像是一種疾病.
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3. Alistair: Oh, it's an old Hogmanay custom.
阿利斯泰爾: 哦, 那是個古老的除夕習俗.
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4. Hans took a drop too much, but I'll forgive him, as it happened on Hogmanay.