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萬聖節的習俗中英文

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你對萬聖節的瞭解有多少呢?它的起源,習俗,鬼怪你都能如數家珍嗎?當南瓜頭忽然來襲時,你準備好糖果了沒? 下面就由小編來跟大家介紹一下吧!

萬聖節的習俗中英文

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

  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.

從十月初開始南瓜就在商店裡出售啦。到十月最後一週,南瓜燈隨處可見,商店櫥窗裡或英國居民家裡也會擺放南瓜燈。

雖然英國人過去也曾用土豆和蘿蔔來刻南瓜燈,但是現在他們都用南瓜做萬聖節特有的“傑克燈”了。

傑克這名字來自愛爾蘭民間故事中一個小氣鬼,由於他人品不好,所以死無去處,只能靠提著一個南瓜燈的亮光在黑暗中游蕩。

  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!

孩子們可喜歡這個遊戲啦!他們化了妝,接著就去鄰居家裡敲門要“treat 款待”。一般來說鄰居都會給孩子們一些巧克力、糖果或錢。

如果鄰居不給點兒東西意思一下,那麼孩子們就會搞點惡作劇,比如他們會把肥皂往玻璃窗上抹。想想一年只有這麼一次,所以即便最財迷的人一般也會給孩子們一些“款待”的。

  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.

英國各地都會舉辦各種派對聚會活動來歡度節日。不過最隆重的要數謝菲爾德的萬聖節大派對了。很多人都會去體驗一下那裡的“恐懼夜晚”。你能想象一個四萬人的聚會嗎?

不論你是什麼年齡都會有適合你的活動:化妝走貓步,都市舞,山中大怪還有吸血鬼公園,再有就是英國傳統的咬蘋果比賽和評選最佳南瓜燈。

  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.

咬蘋果(Apple bobbing)是萬聖節的一個有趣的`競爭遊戲,很傳統。你需要把很多蘋果放在大盆或大桶裡,盛滿了水,水嗎要不冷也不熱因為參賽者必須在不用手幫忙的情況下用嘴叼住蘋果咬一口。

有時候為了讓遊戲更難也更有趣還會把參賽人的眼睛矇住。

  【萬聖節的習俗】

  面具化裝

在古時候,如果有旱災或是其它重大的災難,人們便會帶上醜陋的面具,因為他們害怕深夜還在外面遊走的惡靈,如果晚上必須出門,便會戴上面具或用動物的皮毛裝飾自己,希望惡靈認不出他們來,或被醜陋的面具嚇走。

後來敬畏鬼神的宗教意味逐漸轉薄,慢慢開始有小孩穿上鬼和精靈的衣服,出去嚇鄰居 trick or treat(不給糖,就搗蛋),要大人請吃糖果的趣味習俗。

  南瓜燈

在萬聖節還有雕刻南瓜燈的習俗,這是一則趣味的愛爾蘭的民間傳說。據說有一個名叫傑克的酒鬼,他有一天邀請惡靈來一起喝酒,但喝完後卻沒錢付賬,他就設計要惡靈變成六便士 ( six pennies ) 來付酒錢,可是傑克又沒拿它來付錢,反而用一條銀紙鎮住惡靈讓它出不來。

惡靈苦苦哀求傑克放他出來並答應不來嚇他、騷擾他,於是傑克就它出來,到了第二年萬聖節,惡靈又與傑克達成協議,答應這一年不會來騷擾傑克,但沒過多久傑克就過世了,這時天堂拒絕收容他,傑克只好到地獄報到,可是因為惡靈已經答應他這一年不騷擾他,所以也無法收容傑克。

天堂地獄都去不得,傑克怎麼辦呢?而且路實在是太黑了,傑克也找不出路離開,這時惡靈就丟給他一塊已經燒得通紅的煤炭讓他在黑暗的地獄中比較能看清楚路,傑克將這小塊媒炭灰燼放在一個打了許多洞的菜頭當中,好讓它燒久一點。

根據這個傳說,後來愛爾蘭人就用菜頭來製作他們所謂的"傑克燈籠"。但是當移民們到了美國之後,發現新大陸的南瓜比菜頭普遍,於是改為用南瓜雕刻成各種鬼臉,然後在裡面擺蠟燭了,這就是“南瓜燈”的由來。