Halifax是什么意思

Halifax

英 ['h?lif?ks] 美

Halifax: place in West Yorkshire, late 11c., from Old English halh "secluded spot, nook of land" (cognate with Old English holh "hole, cavity") + feax "rough grass," literally "hair." In popular expressions coupled with Hull and Hell since at least 1620s. "In the 16th cent. the name was wrongly interpreted as OE halig-feax, 'holy hair', and a story invented of a maiden killed by a lustful priest whose advances she refused." [Victor Watts, "English Place-Names"]

1. The nearest safe anchorage was in Halifax, Nova Scotia.: 最近的安全泊地在新斯科舍省的哈利法克斯。

2. Prices unexpectedly increased by 2.6 % in May, according to Halifax, a mortgage lender.: 根據Halifax的數據, 五月份的物價出乎意料地增加了2.6%.

3. " You go to -- Halifax,'she said tensely, her green eyes slits of rage.: " 你給我滾 ---- 滾到遠遠的地方去! " 她惡狠狠地說, 那雙綠眼睛冒出了怒火.

4. Halifax, of the Public Works Department , bubbled over with false bonhonmie.: 在市政工程廳任職的哈里法克斯裝得情緒很高的樣子, 不斷打趣逗笑.

5. Oh , I'm from Halifax , Nova Scotia. I'm Canadian of East Indian descent.: 我是新斯克舍省的哈利法克斯人. 我是東印度裔加拿大人.