"high striped pole decorated with flowers and ribbons for May Day merrymakers to dance around," attested from 1550s but certainly much older, as the first mention of it is in an ordinance banning them, and there are references to such erections, though not by this name, from a mid-14c. Welsh poem. See May Day.
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1. Another is to decorate a maypole with ribbons.
另一项传统是用丝带装饰一根花柱.
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2. The girls danced lightly round about the maypole.
姑娘们围着站朔节花柱轻快地跳起了舞.
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3. Jim: What are those long ribbons hanging down from the top of the Maypole for?
吉姆: 五月柱顶上垂下的长彩带,有甚麽用?
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4. But when I'm thinking about war, I don't want to prance around the Maypole.
但是当我想到战争时, 我可不想围绕着五朔节花柱扎扎跳.
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5. Children dance around a maypole a centuries - old tradition that is still thriving in eastern Europe.
