As the new year starts you might have recently bought a new diary or calendar and thought ‘Where do these words come from?’ – at least that’s what I did. There is also, of course, also the chance that you have been merrily scheduling in gym appointments and book clubs and all sorts of other details relating to New Year’s resolutions (have you kept yours so far?) but we’ll take the opportunity to add a resolution to your list: learn where we got the names for all the months of the year. Spoilers: it’s a mixture of gods, rulers, and numbers.
随着新的一年的开始,可能你最近又买了一本新的日记本或日历本,也许你会想:“日历上这些关于月份的词是从何而来的呢?”——至少我有这样的疑问。当然,也有可能你早已兴致勃勃地安排好了你的新年计划:去健身房锻炼,加入读书俱乐部以及其它各类活动(这些活动你现在还有坚持下去吗?)但借此机会,我们要给你的新年计划再加上一项:了解一年十二个月名称的来历。剧透一下:它们与神、统治者和数字都有关系。
January 一月
January is named after the Roman god Janus, who presided over doors and beginnings – appropriately enough, for the beginning of the year (though this is, as you will discover, not as straightforward as it seems). Indeed, Janus was usually depicted with two faces looking backwards and forwards, as is often characteristic of a new year; this also gave rise to the term Janus word for words that have two opposite meanings.
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