Halloween means Hallows' Evening. It is the evening before All Hallows' Day (now called All Saints'Day), a Christian holiday, celebrated on the November 1st.

　　萬圣節(jié)的晚上是圣徒。這是前一天晚上所有圣徒日(現(xiàn)在稱為萬圣節(jié))，一個基督教節(jié)日，在十一月一日慶祝。

　　History traces Halloween back to the ancient religion of the Celtics. The Celts were the ancestors of the present-day Irish, Welsh and Scottish people. In the 5th century BC, in Celtic Ireland, summer officially ended on October 31st. On the November 1st, Celtic peoples celebrated the festival of Samhain,which marked the beginning of winter and the Celtic New Year. Celts thought the division between the natural world and the supernatural world became very thin and all time and space was abruptly suspended on October 31st, and then the spirits of the died would come back and move freely looking for living bodies to possess.

　　萬圣節(jié)前夜的歷史可以追溯到凱爾特人的古老的信仰。凱爾特人是現(xiàn)在的愛爾蘭人的祖先，威爾士人和蘇格蘭人。在公元前第五世紀(jì)，愛爾蘭的凱爾特人，夏天在十月三十一日正式結(jié)束。在十一月一日，凱爾特人慶祝Samhain節(jié)，這標(biāo)志著冬天的開始和凱爾特人的新年。凱爾特人認(rèn)為自然與超自然世界的劃分變得非常薄，時間和空間會突然暫停十月三十一日，于是死者的靈魂會回來和自由移動，尋找生活的機(jī)構(gòu)擁有。

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