Học tiếng Anh: Lý do tháng 2 có 28 ngày
Phần 2
So, the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, tried something else. Even numbers were bad …(11)…in Ancient Rome, so Numa started by removing a day from all of the even numbered-months. And being loony for Luna, Numa wanted his calendar to cover 12 …(12)…of the moon, but that would have been an even number, so he rounded his year up to 355. Numa split the remaining days into two months and tacked them on to the end of the year. And that’s how February got 28 days. Yes, it’s an even …(13)…, but since the month was dedicated to spiritual purification, Romans let that one …(14)…
But, as powerful as Rome may have been, they couldn’t change the rules of the …(15)…, and neither of these calendars add up anywhere close to the time it takes us to orbit the sun. After a few years, the seasons are out of whack with the months, dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria. Did we already use that …(16)…?
This is where it gets even weirder. See, February was actually split in two…(17)… The first 23 days and… the …(18)… Every year, Numa’s superstitious calendar would be out of line with the seasons by a little more than 10 days. So every other year, the last few days of February were ignored and a 27-seven leap month was …(19)…after February 23rd or 24th. This way, every four years would average out to 366 and a …(20)…days… which is still too many days, but hey, we’re getting there.
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Từ mới:
even numbers: các số chẵn
loony: điên rồ
purification: sự thanh lọc
orbit: đi vào quỹ đạo
out of whack: ra khỏi trật tự
hysteria: chứng cuồng loạn
superstitious: mê tín
leap month: tháng nhuận
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