万圣节英文介绍简单2021介绍万圣节的英文资料.doc

1、万圣节英文介绍简单 2021介绍万圣节的英文资料Halloween (or Hallowe"en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o"-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling s

2、cary stories, and watching horror films arevery happy.Halloween (or Hallowe"en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o"-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attracti

3、ons, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.HistoryHistorian Nicholas Rogers, e_ploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead

4、called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer"s end".Snap-Apple Night (1832) by Daniel Maclise.Depicts apple bobbing

5、and divination games at a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland.The name "Halloween" and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era. The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evenin

6、g"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.4 Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hlgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.11月1日 - 万圣节 All Saints" Day11月2日 - 墨西哥的鬼节 Day of Death万圣节（All Saints" Day, All Hallow"s Day或Hallowmas） 是每年11月1日 的欧美大节日。Halloween 是 All Hallows Eve 的缩写，万圣节前夜的意思，指10月31日的晚上。For thousands of years people