of Halloween
美音、自然拼读、分级阅读与词汇复习
Table of Contents A Fun and Scary Holiday.
内容列表 A 乐趣和可怕的假日.
4 The Celts: Samhain.
4 凯尔特人:Samhain.
6 The Beginnings of Halloween.
6 万圣节开始。
7 Costumes and Trick-or-Treating.
7 服装和花花公子。
8 Jack-o’-Lanterns.
8个杰克-欧-兰特人。
9 Traditions of the Past.
9 过去的传统。
11 Halloween Today.
今天11个万圣节
12 Celebrating in a Crowd.
12 在人群中庆祝。
14 A Mix of Old and New.
14 《新旧杂记》。
15 Glossary.
15 词汇。
16 A Fun and Scary Holiday Halloween is celebrated in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, where it first began.
16,美国,加拿大,英国,爱尔兰等地庆祝"乐趣和恐怖的假日万圣节",这是它最早开始的地方.
On October 31, trick-or-treaters take to the streets.
10月31日,"诡计"或"治疗"者走上街头.
Creepy music comes from Halloween parties, and people dress up in costumes.
令人毛骨悚然的音乐来自万圣节派对,人们会穿成服装.
Monsters, ghosts, superheroes, and princesses of all ages celebrate together.
怪物,鬼魂,超级英雄, 和所有年龄的公主一起庆祝。
Three girls show off their Halloween costumes in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1929.
1929年有三名女孩在俄亥俄州辛辛那提出演了他们的万圣节服装.
Today, Halloween is especially popular in the United States, where it’s important in both culture and business.
万圣节在美国尤其受欢迎,
Halloween turns up in Hollywood movies and popular songs.
万圣节出现在好莱坞电影和流行歌曲中.
The holiday means big business for American stores, too.
假期也意味着美国商店的大生意.
People spend a lot of money on Halloween candy and costumes every year.
人们每年花一大笔钱购买万圣节糖果和服装.
Halloween is part of a very old tradition.
万圣节是一个非常古老的传统的一部分。
It began with the Celtic (KEL-tik) peoples who lived in Great Britain, Ireland, and northern France two thousand years ago.
它始于两千年前生活在大不列颠,爱尔兰和法国北部的凯尔特人(KEL-tik).
A boy shops for his Captain America costume at a costume store in Montebello, California.
一个男孩在加州蒙特贝洛的一家服装店为他的美国队长服装买东西.
The Celts: Samhain The Celts celebrated a festival called Samhain (SOW-in) each fall.
凯尔特人:Samhain 凯尔特人每年秋季都庆祝一个叫"Samhain"(SOW-in)的节日.
In the Celtic calendar, October 31 was the final day of the year.
在凯尔特人的历法中,10月31日是当年的最后一天.
The Samhain celebration on October 31 was a way to say goodbye to the old year.
10月31日的桑哈因庆典是告别旧年的一种方式.
Samhain also had a supernatural side.
桑哈因也有超自然的一面.
The Celts believed that spirits of the dead traveled to the underworld at Samhain.
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To help the dead on their journey, people lit bonfires and sacrificed crops and animals.
为了帮助行走中的死者,人们点燃了篝火并牺牲了农作物和动物.
The Celts also believed that priests could see the future during this festival.
凯尔特人还相信,神父们在这个节日期间可以看到未来.
The predictions made at Samhain were an important part of planning for the new year.
在Samhain所作的预测是新年规划的重要组成部分。
Modern-day druids perform a blessing at Stonehenge in southern England.
现代德鲁伊兹在英格兰南部的巨石阵上表演了"祝福".
The Beginnings of Halloween Later, as Christianity spread throughout Europe, the Catholic Church tried to replace Samhain with its own traditions.
万圣节后期的开始,随着基督教在欧洲各地的传播,天主教会试图用自己的传统来取而代之.
For example, the Church declared an All Saints’ Day on November 1.
例如,教会宣布11月1日为"全圣人节".
This celebration was also known as All Hallows Day.
这次庆典也被称为"万圣节".
October 31, the day before All Hallows, was called All Hallows Eve.
10月31日,即"万圣节"的前一天被称作"万圣节之夜".
The name was later shortened to Halloween.
这个名字后来被缩短为万圣节.
Many of the older Celtic traditions lived on in this new holiday.
许多较古老的凯尔特人传统在此新节日中活了下来.
Today’s Halloween traditions come from the Celts, the Catholic Church, and old European customs.
今天的万圣节传统来自凯尔特人,天主教会,以及欧洲的旧习俗.
Catholic churchgoers make a procession through a town in Poland to celebrate All Saints’ Day.
天主教教会信徒通过波兰的一个城镇游行庆祝所有圣徒节。
Costumes and Trick-or-Treating Halloween costumes probably began with the Celts, who dressed up as animals during Samhain.
化妆品和特技或特技万圣节服装很可能从凯尔特人开始,他们在桑哈因期间被打扮成动物.
In England, people walked the streets dressed like fairies, witches, and ghosts.
在英国,人们穿得像仙子,巫婆和鬼魂一样走在街上.
Dressing up this way was called mumming, and people gave the mummers food and drink.
穿成这样就叫"木乃伊",人们给木乃伊吃喝.
People thought that these gifts would make the spirits leave without causing trouble.
人们以为这些礼物可以使鬼魂离开而不会制造麻烦.
Today, this tradition is called trick-or-treating.
今天,这种传统被称为"诡计"或"治疗".
Adults give a treat so that each child in a costume will leave without playing any tricks.
成人给予一个待遇,让每个穿服装的孩子都离开,不玩弄任何花招.
A modern druid wears a stag costume during a Samhain celebration in England.
现代德鲁伊德在英国的一次桑哈因庆典中会穿戴一身鹿相服.
Jack-o’-Lanterns Many people create jack-o’-lanterns at Halloween.
Jack-o-Lanters 语录 在万圣节,
Jack-o’-lanterns are made by carving designs into a pumpkin.
Jake-o-lanters是通过将设计刻入南瓜来制作的.
Then a candle is placed inside the pumpkin to light up the carving.
然后在南瓜内放起蜡烛来点燃雕刻.
Jack-o’-lanterns come from an Irish story about a man named Stingy Jack.
Jack-o-lanters来自一个爱尔兰人的故事,
Jack liked to play tricks on his friends.
杰克喜欢玩弄他的朋友。
When he died, his spirit was forced to roam in the darkness as punishment.
当他死后,他的灵魂被迫在黑暗中漫游作为惩罚.
To light his way, he carved a hole in a turnip and placed a candle inside.
为了点亮他的方式,他用一朵萝卜刻出一个洞并放入了蜡烛.
Because of this, the Irish called him “Jack-o’-lantern.”
因此,爱尔兰人称他为 " 杰克-欧-兰特人 " 。 “
The legend of Stingy Jack started one big Halloween tradition.
史丁基·杰克的传奇 开创了万圣节的传统
People in Ireland and England made jack-o’-lanterns out of turnips and beets.
在爱尔兰和英格兰,人们用特鲁普和甜菜来制造黄瓜和甜菜。
Many Irish people moved to North America in the 1800s, bringing the jack-o’-lantern tradition with them.
许多爱尔兰人在1800年代移居到北美,带给他们带去的是犹太传统。
The tradition of using pumpkins in jack-o’-lanterns, however, began in the United States in the mid-1800s.
但在美国,
Pumpkins make great jack-o’-lanterns because they are big enough to be carved in all kinds of designs.
南瓜之所以能做很多大块头,
Today, jack-o’-lanterns are an important part of the Halloween celebration.
今天,
Some people still carve turnips for Halloween.
有些人仍然为万圣节而雕刻花花果.
Traditions of the Past Some older Halloween traditions are less well known today.
过去的传统 一些更古老的万圣节传统今天不太为人所熟知。
The Halloween party game of bobbing for apples, for example, began as a form of fortune-telling.
例如,万圣节派对为苹果而设的博取游戏,开始是一种算命的形式.
In this game, players try to remove an apple from a tub of water using only their mouths.
在这场比赛中,玩家试图只用口从水桶取出一粒苹果.
The first person to get an apple was supposed to be the first to marry later in life.
第一位得到苹果的人应该是晚年第一个结婚.
Today, fortune-telling is no longer part of many Halloween games.
今天,算命不再是许多万圣节游戏的一部分.
People might meet a fortune-teller at a Halloween party or haunted house, though.
不过人们可能会在万圣节派对或鬼屋里遇到算命的
Children bob for apples at a party in the United States in the early 1900s.
1900年代初在美国的一个派对上 孩子们买苹果
Halloween Today The modern Halloween celebration is fairly new, though it is often mixed with older traditions.
今天万圣节 现代的万圣节庆祝活动是相当新的,尽管它常常与更古老的传统相混合.
This is especially true in North America, where the holiday was not widely celebrated until the 1800s.
在北美尤其如此,直到1800年代,这个节日才被广泛庆祝.
Halloween was frowned upon by many of the first European settlers in the New World.
万圣节被许多新世界最早的欧洲定居者所笼罩。
That changed when many Irish settlers came to the United States in the 1800s.
1800年代许多爱尔兰定居者来到美国,情况就改变了。
They brought their Halloween traditions with them, including jack-o’-lanterns and mumming.
他们带着他们的万圣节传统,
Slowly, more and more Americans celebrated Halloween.
慢慢地,越来越多的美国人庆祝了万圣节.
Sadly, as Halloween became more popular, pranks became common.
可悲的是,随着万圣节越来越受欢迎,恶作剧变得普遍.
By the 1930s, the pranks were a big problem.
到20世纪30年代,恶作剧已经成为一个大问题.
To make things better, some cities tried to change Halloween into a holiday for families.
为了让事情变得更好,一些城市试图将万圣节改为家庭的节日.
Many held trick-or-treating events for children.
许多人为儿童举办了诡计或治疗活动。