万圣节的英语介绍

万圣节的英语介绍

万圣节的英语介绍

在西方国家，每年的10月31日，有个“Halloween”，辞典解释为“The eve of All Saints'Day”，中文译作：“万圣节之夜”。下面店铺给大家准备了万圣节的英语介绍，一起来看看吧!

【万圣节的英语介绍】

Hallowe’en is a popular festival in many countries all over

the world, and every year it seems to get bigger.

It’s getting dark earlier and it’s starting to get cold.

Christmas is stilla long way away. We need something to cheer

us up and take our minds of the fact that winter is nearly here.

See how much you know about the traditional festival of

Hallowe’en.

The origins of the name

The festival of Hallowe’en has its roots in Celtic and Roman

traditions. Over 2,000 years ago the Celts in Britain, Ireland and

parts of France celebrated Samhain to mark the beginning of

winter. When the Romans invaded, they merged this with Feralia,

their celebration of the passing of the dead. As Christianity

spread, the Church tried to replace these pagan feasts with

official Church holy days. One of these was November 1. It was

called “All Hallows”, and October 31 was known as“All Hallows’

Eve”, and then Hallowe’en.

Hallowe’en traditions

In the past there was a tradition called “souling”. Poor

people went around houses asking for food. In exchange, they

promised to say prayers for the dead. People no longer go

souling, but the habit has beentransformed into a modern

Hallowe’en game for children in America,who dress up as

ghosts, witches and monsters and go around people’shouses.

Witches

Hallowe’en wouldn’t be fun without witches. Witches have

alwaysbeen part of popular folklore. Shakespeare’s play

“Macbeth” opens withthree witches. A witchwas someone —

usually a woman— who hadspecial powers and had dealings with

the devil. The American town,Salem, is famous for the

“witchcraft trials”, which took place there in1692.

Pumpkins

The pumpkin has become a symbol of Hallowe’

empty a pumpkin, cut a face into the side, and puta candle inside

to make a lamp. It’s known as a Jack O’ Lantern, from a story

about a man called Jack, who made a deal with the devil.

Animals

Black cats, frogs, mice and spiders are just some of the

animals associated with Hallowe’en. Generally, the more

unpleasant the animal,the stronger the Hallowe’en connection.

Nocturnal animals like bats are particular favourites, and if, as is

the case with vampire bats, they like drinking blood, they are

highon the Hallowe’en list.

【万圣节的南瓜车】

One story about Jack, an Irishman, who was not allowed into

Heaven because he was stingy with his money. So he was sent to

hell. But down there he played tricks on the Devil (Satan)， so he

was kicked out of Hell and made to walk the earth forever

carrying a lantern。

关于万圣节有这样一个故事。是说有一个叫杰克的爱尔兰人，因为他对钱特别的吝啬，就不允许他进入天堂，而被打入地狱。但是在那里他老是捉弄魔鬼撒旦，所以被踢出地狱，罚他提着灯笼永远在人世里行走。

Well, Irish children made Jack's lanterns on October 31st

from a large potato or turnip, hollowed out with the sides having

holes and lit by little candles inside. And Irish children would

carry them as they went from house to house begging for food

for the village Halloween festival that honored the Druid god

Muck Olla. The Irish name for these lanterns was "Jack with the

lantern" or "Jack of the lantern," abbreviated as " Jack-o'-lantern"

and now spelled "jack-o-lantern."

在10月31日爱尔兰的孩子们用土豆和萝卜制作“杰克的灯笼”，他们把中间挖掉、表面上打洞并在里边点上蜡烛。为村里庆祝督伊德神的万圣节，孩子们提着这种灯笼挨家挨户乞计食物。这种灯笼的爱尔兰名字是“拿灯笼的杰克”或者“杰克的灯笼”，缩写为Jack-o'-lantern ，现在拼写为jack-o-lantern。

The traditional Halloween you can read about in most books

was just children's fun night. Halloween celebrations would start

in October in every elementary school. Children would make

Halloween decorations, all kinds of orange-paper jack-o-lanterns.

And from black paper you'd cut "scary" designs ---an evil witch

with a pointed hat riding through the sky on a broomstick, maybe

with black bats flying across the moon, and that meant bad luck.

And of course black cats for more bad luck。

现在你在大多数书里读到的万圣节只是孩子们开心的夜晚。在小学校里，万圣节是每年十月份开始庆祝的。 孩子们会制作万圣节的装饰品：各种各样桔红的南瓜灯。你可以用黑的'纸做一个可怕的造形——一个骑在扫帚把上戴著尖尖帽子的女巫飞过天空，或者是黑蝙蝠飞过月亮。这些都代表恶运。当然黑猫代表运气更差。

Sometimes a black cat would ride away into the sky on the

back of the witch's broom. And on Halloween night we'd dress

up in Mom or Dad's old shoes and clothes, put on a mask, and

be ready to go outside. The little kids (children younger than we

were) had to go with their mothers, but we older ones went

together to neighbors' houses, ringing their doorbell and yelling,

"Trick or treat!" meaning, "Give us a treat (something to eat) or

we'll play a trick on you!"

有时候会出现黑猫骑在女巫扫帚后面飞向天空的造形。 在万圣节的晚上，我们都穿着爸爸妈妈的旧衣服和旧鞋子，戴上面具，打算外出。比我们小的孩子必须和他们的母亲一起出去，我们大一点的就一起哄到领居家，按他们的门铃并大声喊道：“恶作剧还是招待!”意思是给我们吃的，要不我们就捉弄你。

The people inside were supposed to come to the door and

comment on our costumes. Oh! here's a ghost. Oh, there's a witch.

Oh, here's an old lady. Sometimes they would play along with us

and pretend to be scared by some ghost or witch. But they would

always have some candy and maybe an apple to put in our "trick

or treat bags." But what if no one come to the door, or if someone

chased us away?

里边的人们应该评价我们的化装。 “噢!这是鬼，那是女巫，这是个老太婆。” 有时候他们会跟我们一起玩，假装被鬼或者女巫吓着了。但是他们通常会带一些糖果或者苹果放进我们的“恶作剧还是招待”的口袋里。可是要是没人回答门铃或者是有人把我们赶开该怎么办呢?

Then we'd play a trick on them, usually taking a piece of soap

and make marks on their windows. And afterwards we would go

home and count who got the most candy. One popular teen-agers' Halloween trick was to unroll a roll of toilet paper and

throw it high into a tree again and again until the tree was all

wrapped in the white paper. The paper would often stay in the

tree for weeks until a heavy snow or rain washed it off。

我们就捉弄他们，通常是拿一块肥皂把他们的玻璃涂得乱七八糟。然后我们回家，数数谁的糖果最多。 还有一个典型的万圣节花招是把一卷手纸拉开，不停地往树上扔，直到树全被白纸裹起。除非下大雪

或大雨把纸冲掉，纸会一直呆在树上。

No real harm done, but it made a big mess of both the tree

and the yard under it. One kind of Halloween mischief。

这并不造成真正的伤害，只是把树和院子搞乱，一种万圣节的恶作剧。

【万圣节的英语介绍】