万圣节英语资料.docx

万圣节英语资料 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 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 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 unroll 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. 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。好累呀! 3. neighbors houses：邻居的屋子。Neighbors 本身 已经是复数，有一个“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. unroll 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，a roll of toilet paper是一卷手纸;unroll 则是 roll(卷起)的 反义词“打开”的意思，所以就是“打开一卷手纸”了! 关于万圣节有这样一个故事。是说有一个叫杰克的爱 尔兰人，因为他对钱特别吝啬，就不允许他进入天堂，而 被打入地狱。但是在那里他老是捉弄魔鬼撒旦，所以被踢 出地狱，罚他提着灯笼永远在人世里行走。 在十月三十一日爱尔兰的孩子们用土豆和罗卜制作 “杰克的灯笼” ，他们把中间挖掉、表面上打洞并在里边点 上蜡烛。为村里庆祝督伊德神的万圣节，孩子们提着这种 灯笼挨家挨户乞讨食物。这种灯笼的爱尔兰名字是“拿灯 笼的杰克”或者“杰克的灯笼” ，缩写为 Jack-o-lantern 现在拼写为 jack-o-lantern。 现在你在大多数书里读到的万圣节只是孩子们开心的 夜晚。在小学校里，万圣节是每年十月份开始庆祝的。 孩子们会制作万圣节的装饰品：各种各样桔黄色的南 瓜灯。你可以用黑色的纸做一个可怕的造形一个骑在 扫帚把上戴着尖尖帽子的女巫飞过天空，或者是黑蝙蝠飞 过月亮。这些都代表恶运。当然黑猫代表运气更差。有时 候会出现黑猫骑在女巫扫帚后面飞向天空的造形。 在万圣节的晚上，我们都穿着爸爸妈妈的旧衣服和旧 鞋子，戴上面具，打算外出。比我们小的孩子必须和他们 的母亲一块出去，我们大一点的就一起哄到邻居家，按他 们的门铃并大声喊道：“恶作剧还是招待!”意思是给我们 吃的，要不我们就捉弄你。里边的人们应该出来评价我们 的化装。 “噢!这是鬼，那是女巫，这是个老太婆。 ” 有时候他们会跟我们一起玩，假装被鬼或者女巫吓着 了。但是他们通常会带一些糖果或者苹果放进我们的“恶 作剧还是招待”的口袋里。可是要是没人回答门铃或者是 有人把我们赶开该怎么办呢?我们就捉弄他们，通常是拿一 块肥皂把他们的玻璃涂得乱七八糟。然后我们回家，数数 谁的糖果最多。 还有一个典型的万圣节花招是把一卷手纸拉开，不停 地往树上扔，直到树全被白纸裹起来。除非下大雪或大雨 把纸冲掉，纸会一直呆在树上。这并不造成真正的伤害， 只是把树和院子搞乱，一种万圣节的恶作剧。 Many of the traditions associated with Halloween can be traced back to the ancient festivals of Samhain, such as costuming, trick-or- treating, pinata, pumpkin carving. 许多关于 Halloween的习俗，包括变装打扮，不给糖 就捣蛋的游戏，打彩罐的游戏，刻南瓜灯笼等习俗，都可 以追溯到凯特尔人 Samhain节。 Modern day Halloween celebrations use many symbols to help make the holiday more interesting. Do you know what they are? 现代人用许多东西来庆祝万圣节，让这个节日变得更 有趣。你知道有哪些东西吗? Ghost、Haunted house、spider、bat、vampire、werewolf、coffin、zomb ie、witch、skull、p