关于万圣节的英语故事(中英文对照)

关于万圣节的英语故事

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中英文对照

关于万圣节的英 语故事

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中英文对照

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HALLOWEEN

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.

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

lantern,

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

---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. 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,

(something to eat) or we'll play a trick on you!

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