万圣节英语说明

[关于万圣节的英语词汇]我们平时所说的万圣节 (All Hallows Day)，其实是万圣节前夜 (Halloween)，即10月31日，11月1日才是万圣节。万圣节前夜又被叫做 All Hallow Een, The Eve of All Hallows, Hallo...+阅读

Halloween, or Hallowe'en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, ghost tours, bonfires, costume parties, visiting ＂haunted houses＂, carving Jack-o'-lanterns, reading scary stories and watching horror movies. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western world, most commonly in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Ireland, Puerto Rico, Japan, New Zealand, and occasionally in parts of Australia. In Sweden the All Saints' official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November. Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain. The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes regarded as the ＂Celtic New Year＂. Traditionally, the festival was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and slaughter livestock for winter stores. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, now known as Halloween, the boundary between the alive and the deceased dissolved, and the dead become dangerous for the living by causing problems such as sickness or damaged crops. The festivals would frequently involve bonfires, into which bones of slaughtered livestock were thrown. Costumes and masks were also worn at the festivals in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or placate them.

用英文说明万圣节

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: put the garbage in the method your home to punish you, until you will give them candy. The traditional people dressed as elves, and door-to-door to beg food. Their belief is to give food to please and elves worship them, otherwise the wizard will play a trick on them, such as: the chimney blocked, lost, cattle and sheep are throwing the Chinese cabbage and so on. Another way to fool or scare these evil spirits, is dressed as they look, they believe that the spirits will not hurt them. 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。

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。

说明万圣节用英文带有中文翻译

万圣节（HALLOWEEN）为每年11月1日源自古代的新年节庆，此时也是祭祀灵魂的时刻，在避免恶灵的干扰的同时，也以食物祭拜祖灵及善灵以祈平安度过严冬，是西方的传统节日。当晚小孩会穿上化妆服，戴上面具，挨家挨户收集糖果。主要流行于英语世界，如不列颠群岛和北美，其次是澳大利亚和新西兰。现在，一些非洲国家的年轻一辈，也倾向与过洋节，到了万圣节前夕，一些大型外资超市都会摆出专柜卖万圣节的玩具，小商贩也会出售一些跟万圣节相关的玩偶或模型，吸引了年轻人的眼光。很多民族都在万圣节前夜（10月31日）有庆典聚会，这又被叫做“All Hallow E'en万圣节”、“ The Eve of All Hallows”、“Hallow e'en”，或者“The eve of All Saintas'Day”。最终约定俗成演变成了“Halloween”，中文翻译成了万圣节之夜。

它如果分开成两个单词，便是“Hallow”和“een＂。[...