The ill-omen linked to the lighting of three things from one match or candle goes back to at least the 17th century and probably earlier.
一根火柴或蜡烛点燃三样东西的不祥征兆至少可以追溯到17世纪,或者可能更早。
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The winds shall do battle together with a blast of ill-omen, making their din reverberate from one constellation to another.
风会连同一股坏的预兆而发起战役——预兆,制造出它们的喧哗,从星座反响出来。
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Like all the cottagers in Blackmoor Vale, Tess was steeped in fancies and prefigurative superstitions; she thought this an illomen - the first she had noticed that day.