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标 题: Word-of-the-Day:withershins
发信站: 紫 丁 香 (Fri Jan 14 08:32:42 2000), 转信
withershins
origin: from the Scottish "wider-", meaning "counter", and "way".
1. In a direction opposite to the usual one; the wrong way around.
Frequently "stand" or "start withershins".
2. Moving in a direction contrary to the apparent course of the sun
(considered unlucky); anticlockwise.
"Now that same night that the corpse-bearers came home, as men sat
by the meal-fires at Frodiswater, they saw how by the panelling of
the house-wall was come a half-moon, and all might see it who were
in the house; and it went backward and withershins round about the
house, nor did it vanish away while folk sat by the fires. So
Thorod asked Thorir Wooden-leg what that might bode.
Thorir said it was the Moon of Weird, 'and the deaths of men will
follow thereafter,' says he."
--(Traditional) "The Story of the Ere-Dwellers"
Translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson
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