n. 复活节
Easter 复活节
来自PIE*aus, 光照,照耀,词源同aurora, aureate. 原为日耳曼春天女神,于春分举行庆祝仪式。因其庆祝日期以及其蕴含的意义恰好与耶稣复活相对应,最终该节日演变成复活节。
If the children have no garden, they make nests in the wood-shed, barn, or house. They gather colored flowers for the rabbit to eat, that it may lay colored eggs. If there be a garden, the eggs are hidden singly in the green grass, box-wood, or elsewhere. On Easter Sunday morning they whistle for the rabbit, and the children imagine that they see him jump the fence. After church, on Easter Sunday morning, they hunt the eggs, and in the afternoon the boys go out in the meadows and crack eggs or play with them like marbles. Or sometimes children are invited to a neighbor's to hunt eggs. [Phebe Earle Gibbons, "Pennsylvania Dutch," Philadelphia 1882]