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The Taditional Halloween

Halloween originated as a celebration connected with evil spirits. Witches flying on broomsticks with ghosts, goblins and skeletons have all evolved as symbols of Halloween. Bats, owls and other nocturnal animals are also popular symbols of Halloween. They were originally feared because people believed that these creatures could communicate with the spirits of the dead.

Black cats are also symbols of Halloween and have religious origins as well. Black cats were considered to be reincarnated beings with the ability to divine the future. During the Middle Ages it was believed that witches could turn themselves into black cats. Thus when such a cat was seen, it was considered to be a witch in disguise. All these are popular trick-or-treat costumes and decorations for greeting cards and windows.

Black is one of the traditional Halloween colors, probably because Halloween festivals and traditions took place at night.

Pumpkins are also a symbol of Halloween. The pumpkin is an orange-colored squash, and orange has become the other traditional Halloween color. Carving pumpkins into jack- o'-lanterns is a Halloween custom also dating back to Ireland. A legend grew up about a man named Jack who was so stingy that he was not allowed into heaven when he died, because he was a miser. He couldn't enter hell either because he had played jokes on the devil. As a result, Jack had to walk on the earth with his lantern until Judgement Day. So Jack and his lantern became the symbol of a lost or damned soul. To scare these souls away on Halloween, the Irish people carved scary faces out of turnips, beets or potatoes representing "Jack of the Lantern", or Jack-o-lantern. When the Irish brought their customs to the United States, they carved faces on pumpkins because in the autumn they were more plentiful than turnips. Today jack-o-lanterns in the windows of a house on Halloween night let costumed children know that there are goodies waiting if they knock and say "Trick or Treat!"

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One story about Jack， an Irishman， who was not allowed into Heaven because he was stingy with hismoney. So he was sent to hell. But down there he played tricks on the Devil (Satan)， so he was kicked out ofHell and made to walk the earth forever carrying a lantern.

Well， Irish children made Jack's lanterns on October 31st from a large potato or turnip， hollowed out withthe sides having holes and lit by little candles inside. And Irish children would carry them as they went fromhouse to house begging for food for the village Halloween festival that honored the Druid god Muck Olla. TheIrish 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 justchildren's fun night. Halloween celebrations would start in October in every elementary school.

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Well, Irish children made Jack's 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 wouldcarry 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 children's 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 you'd 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 witch's broom.

And on Halloween night we'd dress up in Mom or Dad's 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 we'll play a trick on you!" The people inside were supposed to come to the door and comment on our costumes.

Oh! here's a ghost. Oh, there's a witch. Oh, here's 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 we'd 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.

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Bad omens are also part of Halloween celebrations. A bad omen is something that is believed to bring bad luck, like black cats, spiders or bats.

惡兆也是萬(wàn)圣節(jié)慶祝活動(dòng)的一部分。人們相信惡兆會(huì)帶給壞運(yùn)氣，黑貓、蜘蛛或者蝙蝠都算是惡兆。

趁著西方萬(wàn)圣節(jié)之際分享一些和恐懼有關(guān)的常用英語(yǔ)短語(yǔ)吧!不過(guò)要記住美國(guó)前總統(tǒng)羅斯福的那句話喲：The biggest fear is fear itself!

1.to be scared stiff - 嚇呆了

形容一個(gè)人被什么東西嚇得魂不附體不能動(dòng)彈。

例句：Linda was scared stiff of giving her solo performance in front of the whole school.

林達(dá)嚇呆了，因?yàn)樗鎸?duì)全校師生獨(dú)自表演。

2.to scare away/off - 嚇跑

這個(gè)動(dòng)詞短語(yǔ)用來(lái)表達(dá)用某種辦法來(lái)嚇跑某人或某物，讓他們走開(kāi)。

例句：I still remember that my grandpa used to tie a scarecrow, Harold, to a pole in the garden to scare away the birds.

我仍然記得我爺爺總是把一個(gè)稻草人，哈羅德綁在菜園的一根竿子上，用來(lái)嚇跑那些麻雀。

3.a skeleton in the cupboard

不為人知的家丑

這個(gè)短語(yǔ)的原意是“柜櫥里的骷髏”，不過(guò)現(xiàn)在通常用來(lái)形容不可告人的家丑。

例句：We found out that Mr Smith's got a skeleton in his cupboard. Some years ago he was caught stealing money from his firm.

我們發(fā)現(xiàn)了史密斯先生有著一段不可告人的丑聞。數(shù)年前他偷公司的錢被人抓住。

4.in cold blood 殘忍地

這個(gè)副詞短語(yǔ)用來(lái)形容做事殘忍，冷血無(wú)情。

例句：The young man killed his ex-girlfriend in cold blood.

這個(gè)年輕人殘酷無(wú)情地殺死了他的前女友。