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Next to Christmas,
Halloween is the most commercialized celebration
in the United States and Canada. This ancient
festival originated far from North
America however, and centuries before the first
European set foot on the continent.
The ancient Druids
督伊德教（古代高卢人与不列颠人的一种宗教）的教徒
who inhabited what we now call
Great Britain placed great importance
on the passing of one season to the next, holding
“Fire Festivals” which were
celebrated
for three days
（
two days on
either side of the day
itself
）。
One of these festivals was
called Samhain
（
pronounced
Sha-Von
）
and it
took place on October 31 through to
November 1. During this period, it was
believed that the boundaries between our world and
the world of the dead were
weakened,
allowing spirits of the recently dead to cross
over and possess the living.
In order to make themselves
and their homes less inviting to these wayward
spirits, the ancient
Celts
（凯尔特人）
would douse
（插入水中，
把弄熄，
弄湿）
all their fires. There
was also a secondary purpose to this, after
extinguishing all their fires, they
would re-light them from a common source, the
Druidic fire that was kept burning at
Usinach, in the Middle of Ireland.
Samhain was
considered to be a gateway not only from the land
of the dead to the land of the living, but also
between Summer and Fall/Winter. For the
Druids, this was the last gasp
（喘息，
气喘）
of summer
（
it was also the
Celtic New Year
），
so therefore they made sure it went out
with a bang before they had to button down
（把
…
弄清
楚）
for the winter ahead.
They would dress up in bizarre costumes
and parade through their villages causing
destruction in order to scare off
any
recently departed souls who might be prowling
（巡游）
for bodies to inhabit,
in addition to burning animals and
other offerings to the Druidic
deities
（神，
神性）。
It is also a
popular belief that they would burn people who
they
believed to be possessed, but this
has largely been debunked
（揭穿，
拆穿假面具，
暴露）
as myth.
This yearly festival was
adopted by the Roman invaders, who helped to
propagate
（传播，
宣传）
it throughout
the rest of the world
（
and at that time, the Roman
Empire was the world
）。
The word “Halloween” itself actually
comes from a contraction of All Hallows
Eve, or All Saint's Day
（
November
1
）
，
which is a Catholic day of observance
in honor of saints.
This tradition was later
brought to the North American continent by Irish
immigrants who were escaping the
Potato
Famine in their homeland. In addition to the
festival itself, the immigrants brought several
customs with them,
including one of the
symbols most commonly associated with Halloween --
the Jack 'O Lantern.
According to Irish folklore, there once
lived a man named Jack who was known for being a
drunk and a prankster
（顽皮的人，
爱开玩笑的人）。
One
night Jack tricked the devil into climbing a tree,
and quickly carved an image of
a cross
on the trunk, trapping the devil. Jack then made
him promise that, in exchange for letting him out
of the tree,
the Devil would never
tempt him to sin again. He reluctantly agreed, but
was able to exact his revenge upon Jack's
death. Because of his mischievous ways
in life, Jack was barred from entering heaven and
because of his earlier trick, he
was
also barred from hell. So he was doomed to wander
the earth until the end of time, with only a
single ember
（灰烬，
余烬）
（
carried in a hollowed out t
urnip.[
植
]
芜箐，
芜箐甘蓝）
to
warm him and light his way.
In Ireland, they originally
also used turnips for their “Jack Lanterns”, but
upon arriving in the new world, they
discovered that pumpkins were abundant
and easier to carve out.
万圣节前夕
万圣节前夕是美国人年年都会庆祝的秋季节日。它的意思是<
/p>
“
神圣的夜晚
”,
在每年的
10
月
31
日，也就是万圣
节前夜。但实际上这不是一个真正的宗教节日，而主要是孩子们
的节日。
每年秋天蔬菜成熟可以食用的时候，孩子们就会挑出大个儿的橙色南瓜。然后在南瓜上刻上一张脸，把一
根点燃的蜡烛放在里面。看起来就好像有人在向南瓜外面张望。这些灯就叫做
< br>“iack
-o'-
lantems”,
意思也就是
“
杰克
的灯
”.
每年万圣节前夕孩子们还戴上奇怪的面具，穿上吓人的服装。有些孩子把脸刷成怪物。然后他们拿
着盒子
或袋子挨家挨户串门。每来到一个新房子他们就说：
“<
/p>
不款待就捣乱！给钱还是吃的！
”
大人们
就会把用来招待
的钱或糖放在他们的袋子里了。
不仅孩子，许多成年人也喜欢万圣
节前夕和万圣节前夕晚会。因为这一天他们可以根据自己的想象把自己
装扮成名流或幽灵
。这会带给他们年轻的快感。
万圣节的英文介绍：
Halloween
Halloween is an autumn
holiday that Americans celeb
rate 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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