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有關萬聖節活動的英文介紹

  【Some popular Halloween activities一些受歡迎的萬聖節活動】

  【Halloween parties萬聖節派對】

Across the UK, people throw parties to celebrate Halloween. The biggest Halloween party has to be in Sheffield at the end of October.

A lot of people go there to experience Fright Night. Can you image a party with about 40,000 people?

There are activities for people of all ages: fancy dress catwalk, urban dance, a monster in a fountain and a zombie garden, as well as the traditional apple bobbing and a competition for the best pumpkin lantern.

  【Apple bobbing咬蘋果】

This is a fun and competitive game which is very traditional. What you do is to place lots of apples in a large tub or a bowl of water - not too cold or too hot.

This is because the participants or competitors have to take a bite from one of the apples without using their hands.

Sometimes the participants are blindfolded, just to make it even more challenging and fun.

  【Pumpkin lanterns南瓜燈】

Pumpkins are on salein shops and supermarkets from as early as the beginning of October.

By the last week of October you can see pumpkin lanterns everywhere in shop windows and in people's houses.

Although British people used to use potatoes and turnips, now they use pumpkins to make Jack-o-lanterns unique to the Halloween season.

The name“Jack-o-lantern"comes from an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack who, because of his bad nature, was doomed to roam the earth without a resting place and with only his lit lantern to light the way in the darkness.

  【Trick or treating不給糖果就搗亂】

Children love this game! They dress up and then knock on the doors of people's houses in their neighbourhood asking for a ‘trick or treat’.

The neighbour gives them chocolates, sweets or money as a ‘treat’.

If there is no treat, the children play a trick on the neighbour, for example, they might throw soap at the window.

It only happens once a year so even the stingiest adultsmightgive something to the kids as a treat!

  【節日活動中文介紹】

紐約市也特別在萬聖節晚上舉行巡遊,讓一群吸血鬼,殭屍(zombie),女巫,科學怪人等齊齊現身,還歡迎市民到場參觀,到會者不限年齡、性別,不分階級、國籍,即使你是膽小鬼,也可加入他們的行列,來個熱熱鬧鬧的人鬼嘉年華會。

其實這些鬼怪都是人扮的,所以並不可怕,相反有些小鬼臉更非常可愛,令人置身其中,就如參加大型化裝舞會一樣。

在各式各樣的裝扮角色中,以女巫殭屍一族最多人扮演,而那些專賣萬聖節用品的店鋪也特別準備這類衣飾出售,以迎合大眾所需;與此同時,生產商每年更會把當年大熱的人物造型包括面具及衣物推出市場,務求令更多人投入西方傳統節日的熱潮裡,如在電影<哈利波特>的小巫師造型,已是許多孩子必選的扮演角色。

格林威治村的萬聖節巡遊﹝Greenwich Village Halloween Parade﹞始於1973年,由一位面具工匠兼木偶演員Mr Ralph Lee發起,據說最初他帶著朋友和孩童一起在鄰居處遊行,後來漸漸演變成整個村的大型活動,而活動中當然少不了大型木偶表演,同時,巡行的目的更希望每一個人都是參與者而不是旁觀者,所以即使人們只是抱著想看熱鬧的心態,當你踏進村子裡,很快便會被邀請參與巡行,成為他們的一份子。

紐約市的.萬聖節巡遊每年都吸引成千上萬的紐約人和遊客參加,而巡遊會在格林威治村﹝Greenwich Village﹞舉行,各隊伍約在夜晚上七時從第六大道與春天街交界﹝6th Avenue & Spring Street﹞起步,一直遊行至第二十三街﹝6th Avenue & 23rdStreet﹞為止,全程大概多個小時。

南瓜糕餅無論是來自亞洲,南美,非洲,歐洲,以至中東地區的參觀者,都可以把自己裝扮成各式各樣的人物,亦可帶備簡單樂器,即時演奏本土的獨特音樂,融合無疆界的風土文化。可能我以前從未參加過萬聖節的活動,更莫說這麼精彩的巡遊,所以特別覺得有新鮮感。

早於十月中,曼哈頓市已開始“鬧鬼”了,在繁忙的街道上,已看見四處懸掛起萬聖節的鬼怪裝飾,很多百貨公司也忙著把應節禮品及衣物堆放在櫥窗裡,吸引不少途人駐足觀看,而超級市場及街市亦擺放大大小小的南瓜售賣,供市民買回家佈置家園或製作南瓜燈之用,當然嘛,也有主婦烹煮南瓜作菜餚或糕餅,完全依足節慶傳統。