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Halloween Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year. It means "holy evening," and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints' Day. However, it is not really a church holiday, it is a holiday for children mainly. Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside. It looks as if there were a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack-o'-lanterns, which means "Jack of the lantern". The children also put on strange masks and frightening costumes every Halloween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters. Then they carry boxes or bags from house to house. Every time they come to a new house, they say,"Trick or treat! Money or eat!" The grown-ups put treat-money or candy in their bags. Not only children, but most grown-ups also love Halloween and Halloween parties because on this day,they can disguise themselves as personages or ghost as their imaginations will lead them. This bring them the satisfaction of being young.
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Halloween 万圣节：ˌhæləˈwin/UK /haləʊˈiːn/ n.
introduce介绍：
the night of 31 October, the eve of All Saints' Day. Halloween is of pre-Christian origin, being associated with the Celtic festival Samhain, when ghosts and spirits were thought to be abroad. Adopted as a Christian festival, it gradually became a secular rather than a Christian observance, involving dressing up and the wearing of masks.
万圣夜（英语：Halloween，意为“万圣节（诸圣节）的前夜”），中文常直接称为万圣节，在每年的10月31日，是西方世界的传统节日，此时也是祭祀亡魂的时刻，在避免恶灵干扰的同时，也以食物祭拜祖灵及善灵以祈平安渡过严冬。主要流行于撒克逊人后裔云集的美国、不列颠群岛、澳大利亚、加拿大和新西兰等西方国家
Customs 习俗:
1、Mask making Jack-O-Lantern, joking with the children's psychological wear costumes and masks of all kinds to the Halloween party, the ball often hung around the walls papered witches, black cats, ghosts and skeletons, window and door, hanging or face grinning detestable pumpkin lanterns.
面具化装、制作南瓜灯孩子们带着开玩笑的心理穿戴上各种服饰和面具参加万圣夜舞会，这些舞会四周的墙上往往悬挂着用纸糊的巫婆、黑猫、鬼怪和尸骨，窗前和门口则吊着龇牙咧嘴或是面目可憎的南瓜灯笼。
2、Trick or Treat Halloween, children will be carrying Jack-O-Lantern, wearing the clothing of every kind of strange and eccentric, from door to door to ask for sweets, kept saying: "trick or treat." if you refused to give candy, children will be very angry, in a variety of ways to punish you, for example: the garbage in the way you home to punish you, until you will give them candy.
不给糖就捣蛋万圣节前夕，孩子们会提着南瓜灯，穿着各式各样的稀奇古怪的服装，挨家挨户地去索要糖果，不停地说：“trick or treat."要是你不肯给糖果的话，孩子们就会很生气，用各种方法去惩罚你，例如：把垃圾倒在你家里等等的方法去惩罚你，直到你肯给他们糖果为止。
Etymology词源：
The word appears as the title of Robert Burns' "Halloween" (1785), a poem traditionally recited by Scots，The word Halloween or Hallowe'en dates to about 1745 and is of Christian origin.The word "Hallowe'en" means "hallowed evening" or "holy evening".It comes from a Scottish term for All Hallows' Eve (the evening before All Hallows' Day).
出现的词作为标题罗伯特·彭斯“万圣节”（1785），一首诗朗诵苏格兰词的传统，万圣节或万圣节的日期1745，是基督教的起源。“万圣节”的意思是“神圣的夜晚”，或“神圣的夜晚”。它来自苏格兰语为万圣节夜（在万圣节当天晚上）。
In Scots, the word "eve" is even, and this is contracted to e'en or een. Over time, (All) Hallow(s) E(v)en evolved into Hallowe'en. Although the phrase "All Hallows'" is found in Old English "All Hallows' Eve" is itself not seen until 1556
在苏格兰，“夜”是偶数，这是签约甚至甚至。随着时间的推移，（所有）以（S）E（V）EN演变成万圣节。虽然“万圣节”是发现于古英语“万圣节前夕”本身是看不到的直到1556年。
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Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31. By tradition, Halloween begins after sunset. Long ago, people believed that witches gathered together and ghosts roamed the world on Halloween. Today, most people no longer believe in ghosts and witches. But these supernatural beings are still a part of Halloween.万圣节前夜是在10月31日庆祝的一个节日，根据传统，万圣节前夜的庆祝活动从太阳落山开始。在很久以前，人们相信在万圣节前夜女巫会聚集在一起，鬼魂在四处游荡。现在，大多数人们不再相信有鬼魂和女巫的存在了，但是他们仍然把这些作为万圣节前夜的一部分。The colors black and orange are also a part of Halloween. Black is a symbol for night and orange is the color of pumpkins. A jack-o’-lantern is a hollowed-out pumpkin with a face carved on one side. Candles are usually placed inside, giving the face a spooky glow.黑色和橙色仍然是万圣节前夜的一部分，黑色是夜晚的象征，而橙色代表着南瓜。南瓜灯是用雕刻成脸型，中间挖空，再插上蜡烛的南瓜做成的，带来一个毛骨悚然的灼热面孔。Dressing up in costumes is one of the most popular Halloween customs, especially among children. According to tradition, people would dress up in costumes (wear special clothing, masks or disguises) to frighten the spirits away.盛装是最受欢迎的万圣节风俗之一，尤其是受孩子们的欢迎。按照传统习俗，人们会盛装（穿戴一些特殊的服饰，面具或者装饰）来吓跑鬼魂。Popular Halloween costumes include vampires (creatures that drink blood), ghosts (spirits of the dead) and werewolves (people that turn into wolves when the moon is full).流行的万圣节服装包括vampires（吸血鬼），ghosts（死者的灵魂）和werewolves（每当月圆时就变成狼形的人）。Trick or Treating is a modern Halloween custom where children go from house to house dressed in costume, asking for treats like candy or toys. If they don't get any treats, they might play a trick (mischief or prank) on the owners of the house.欺骗或攻击是现代万圣节的风俗。孩子们穿着特殊的衣服走街串巷，讨取糖果和玩具之类的赏赐。如果他们得不到任何的赏赐，就可能会对屋主大搞恶作剧或者胡闹了。The tradition of the Jack o' Lantern comes from a folktale about a man named Jack who tricked the devil and had to wander the Earth with a lantern. The Jack o' Lantern is made by placing a candle inside a hollowed-out pumpkin, which is carved to look like a face.南瓜灯的传统来自于一个民间传说。一个名叫Jack的人戏弄了恶魔，之后就不得不提着一盏灯在地球上流浪。南瓜灯是用雕刻成脸型，中间挖空，再插上蜡烛的南瓜做成的。There are many other superstitions associated with Halloween. A superstition is an irrational idea, like believing that the number 13 is unlucky!和万圣节有关的迷信还有很多。迷信是一种不合常理的想法，比如认为13是不吉利的数字！Halloween is also associated with supernatural creatures like ghosts and vampires. These creatures are not part of the natural world. They don't really exist... or do they?万圣节还和一些诸如鬼魂和吸血鬼之类的超自然的生物有关。这些生物不是自然界的一部分。他们实际上是不存在的......或许他们其实真的存在？Witches are popular Halloween characters that are thought to have magical powers. They usually wear pointed hats and fly around on broomsticks.女巫是万圣节很受欢迎的人物，人们认为她们具有强大的魔力。他们通常戴着尖顶的帽子，骑在扫把上飞来飞去。Bad omens are also part of Halloween celebrations. A bad omen is something that is believed to bring bad luck, like black cats, spiders or bats.恶兆也是万圣节庆祝活动的一部分。人们相信恶兆会带给坏运气，黑猫、蜘蛛或者蝙蝠都算是恶兆。
紫茎泽蓝2011
万圣节的英文介绍：Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31． By tradition， Halloween begins after sunset． Long ago， people believed that witches gathered together and ghosts roamed the world on Halloween． Today， most people no longer believe in ghosts and witches． But these supernatural beings are still a part of Halloween．
万圣节前夜是在10月31日庆祝的一个节日，根据传统，万圣节前夜的庆祝活动从太阳落山开始。在很久以前，人们相信在万圣节前夜女巫会聚集在一起，鬼魂在四处游荡。现在，大多数人们不再相信有鬼魂和女巫的存在了，但是他们仍然把这些作为万圣节前夜的一部分。
万圣节前夕，孩子们会提着南瓜灯，穿着各式各样的稀奇古怪的服装，挨家挨户地去索要糖果，不停地说：“trick or treat”（意思是：“给不给，不给就捣蛋。”）要是你不肯给糖果的话，孩子们就会很生气，用各种方法去惩罚你，例如：把垃圾倒在你家里等等的方法去惩罚你，直到你肯给他们糖果为止。
而对传统而言人们会扮成精灵，然后逐家逐户去恳求食物。他们的信念是要给予精灵崇拜及食物来讨好它们，否则这些精灵就会捉弄他们，诸如：烟囱堵塞，牛羊失丧﹑被掷黄芽白等等。另一个途径去愚弄或吓跑这些恶灵，就是扮成它们的样子，他们相信这样那些恶灵就不会伤害他们。
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