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英文每个月份的来历:凯撒不只和七月有关,还和生孩子有关

2019-07-25 12:00

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  The month of July, unlike June, is named for a mortal, albeit one who devised and ruled an empire. Julius Caesar was a Roman general, statesman, and historian who conquered Gaul (what is now part of Italy, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands), changed the structure of the Roman government into a dictatorship, was assassinated in legendary fashion, and most importantly for our purposes, helped make the calendar what it is today.

  和六月不同,七月是以一个凡人命名的,尽管这个人创造并统治了一个国家。尤利乌斯·恺撒,也译为儒略·凯撒(Julius Caesar),曾任罗马共和国军事统帅、政治家、历史学家,他征服了高卢全境(今意大利、法国、比利时、荷兰部分地区),将罗马共和国的政体变为君主独裁制,最终却以传奇暗杀终了一生。也正是这种传奇,造就了我们现在的历法,这也是对我们当今最重要的影响之一。

  Caesar is responsible for the year as we know it having 365 days, and for the existence of a leap year every four years. How did this Julian Calendar change things? The early Roman calendar had an intercalary month called Intercalans that was 27 or 28 days long, added once every two years after February 23rd. For years including Intercalans, the remaining five days of February were omitted. Our contemporary calendar is still pretty much the same system Caesar instituted more than 2000 years ago.

  我们都知道,一年有365天,这一历法要溯源至凯撒,包括每隔四年出现一个闰年,这些现象都和他紧密相关。那么根据他而命名的“儒略历”是如何改变历法的呢?早期罗马历法中有一闰月,名为Intercalans,这个月有27-28天,每隔两年就会在2月23日之后出现一次,也就是说,凡是出现闰月,二月份的最后五天就会被略去。我们的当代历法和2000年前的儒略历还是非常相似的。

  Who is July named for?

  七月是如何命名的?

  July was named in honor of Julius Caesar. When Julius Caesar died, Quintilis, which was his birth month, was renamed with July. Quintilis means “fifth month” in Latin, which represents where this month originally fell in the Roman calendar.

  为纪念尤利乌斯·恺撒,七月“July”以尤利乌斯的名字Julius命名。在凯撒死后,他的出生月“Quintilis”被重新命名,以“July”取而代之。“Quintilis”本是拉丁语中的“五月”,这也说明了最初在(共有十个月的)罗马历法中,July实际上是第五个月。

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