万圣节儿童故事

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 jacks 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 jack with the

lantern or jack of the lantern, abbreviated as jack-o-lantern

and now spelled jack-o-lantern.

the traditional halloween you can read about in most books

was just childrens 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 youd cut

scary designs ---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 witchs broom.

and on halloween night wed dress up in mom or dads 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, trick or treat!

meaning, give us a treat (something to eat) or well play a trick

on you! the people inside were supposed to come to the door

and comment on our costumes.

oh! heres a ghost. oh, theres a witch. oh, heres an old

mes they would play along with us and pretend to

be scared by some ghost or witch. but they would always have

some candy and

maybe an apple to put in our trick or treat bags. but what if no

one come to the door, or if someone chased us away? then

wed play a trick on them, usually taking a piece of soap and

make marks on their windows. .and afterwards we would go

home and count who got the most candy. one popular teen-

agers halloween trick was to uoll a roll of toilet paper and

throw it high into a tree again and again until the tree was all

wrapped in the white paper. the paper would often stay in the

tree for weeks until a heavy snow or rain washed it off. no real

harm done, but it made a big mess of both the tree and the

yard under it. one kind of halloween mischief.

注释：

1. was stingy with

：对

??

吝啬 。

stingy

这个词你可不要去模仿，

因为他是

“

吝啬的

”

意思，要不你可要成为

“

葛朗台

”

了！但你可要注

意

stinggy

这个形容词词是和介词

with

连用的 呀！

2. carrying a lantern

：拿着灯笼。这里用

carrying

作

walk

的伴随

状语，更生动地说明可怜的

jack

无论走到哪里手里都要提着灯笼了。

< br>好累呀！

3.

neighbors

houses

： 邻居的屋子。

neighbors

本身已经是复数，

“s”

了。如果表示

“

邻居的

”

，就不能加

“s”

（太累赘），而要

直接加

“”

了。所以就是

neighbors houses

。

4. come to the door

：应门。

“

走 到门前面

”

自然就是要来开门看看

是哪 些小调皮在捣乱啦！

5. uoll a roll of toilet paper

：打开一卷纸。这么多

roll

，可别怵！

roll

是

“

卷、卷起

”

的意思，