西方十大常見迷信

7. Walking underneath a ladder is widely held to be bad luck. 從梯子下走不吉利

'Walking under a ladder' came about in England a few centuries ago when people drank more ale at lunch than ate food. Drunken sign painters were likely to dump a bucket of paint if you walked by or under their ladder and handymen would drop tools.

“從梯子下走不吉利”來源于英國幾個世紀前發生的事。在晚餐喝了過多的麥芽酒而沒吃多少食物之后，當有人路過梯子或是從梯子下走，喝醉了的畫家們可能會將他們的油漆桶倒下去，雜務工要是喝醉了可能會將自己的工具丟下去。