准备好糖果和南瓜灯，一起来探秘万圣节的由来

Costumes and candy,
服饰和糖果，
spiders and scarecrows,
蜘蛛和稻草人，
haunted houses and jack-o'-lanterns.
鬼屋和南瓜灯。
There's nothing quite like the spooky fun of Halloween,
没什么比万圣节上的幽灵气息更有趣的了，
but, have you ever wondered where did Halloween come from?
但你是否曾想过，万圣节的由来呢？
Let's find out in today's episode.
让我们在今天的节目中揭晓答案吧。
Halloween dates all the way back to the ancient Celtic people,
万圣节这个节日可以追溯到古代凯尔特人那里，
who celebrated its Samhain,
他们为了庆祝萨温节，夏末的到来，
one of their most important holidays on November 1st.
由此，11月1日也是他们最重要的节日之一。
Samhain marked the end of the harvest and beginning of the cold dark winter.
夏末节标志着夏天正式结束，严酷的冬季开始的一天。
In Celtic lore, the boundary between the living and the dead becomes burned on the night before the new year,
在凯尔特人的传说中，生死之界会在新年前夕被烧毁，
October 31st.
也就是10月31日这天。
Ghosts roam near damaged property and cause all-around havoc.
鬼魂会在损毁的房屋附近游荡，并展开彻底的破坏。
The Celtic priests called druids built giant bonfires to combat the ghastly spirits.
于是，被称为“德鲁伊”的凯尔特牧师搭建了巨大的篝火来对抗这些可怕的鬼魂。
People would gather all around,
人们聚集在火堆周围，
wearing costumes made from animals,
穿着动物皮毛制作的服饰，
and would try to tell each other's fortune.
互相诉说彼此的命运。
Sounds a little familiar, right?
听起来有点耳熟吧？
Okay, so that's all it means origins,
没错，这就是万圣节的起源，
but when it become Halloween as we know it today?
但万圣节又是如何演变成今天的模样的呢？
Well, that started when the Romans invaded,
那是从罗马人入侵，
and eventually took control over the Celtic lands.
并彻底占领凯尔特人的领地开始的。
In order to ease the transition to Roman rule,
为了顺利向罗马统治制度过渡，
the Romans blended two of their own holidays with the old Celtic New Year traditions.
罗马人将他们自己的两个节日与古凯尔特人的新年传统结合在了一起。
One of the Roman holidays commemorated the dead,
罗马人的节日之一是为了祭奠死者的，
and the other celebrated the goddess of trees and fruit,
另一个节日是为了祭拜果树女神的，
and may have been the origin of bobbing for apples.
这也是咬苹果活动的起源。
This spooky blended holiday was forced to change once again,
当凯尔特教会创造了一个叫做万圣节的节日时，
when the Celtic Church established a festival called All Saints Day,
这个令人毛骨悚然的联合节日再一次被迫改变，
to be held every year on November 1st.
并在每年的11月1日举行。
The All Saints Day celebration was also called All Hallows or all hallow myths,
万圣节庆祝活动也被称为天下圣徒之日或所有神灵的神话日，
and the night before it-October 31st-the traditional night of sowing began to be called All Hallows Eve and, overtime, Halloween.
且该节日的前夜，也就是10月31日，传统的播种之夜又被重新命名为万圣节前夜或提前到来的万圣节。
When a wave of European immigrants came to the United States in the eighteen hundreds,
在十八世纪，当一波欧洲移民来到美国时，
they brought their hodgepodge halloween holiday traditions with them.
他们也带来了大杂烩式的万圣节传统。
In the late 1800s, the U.S. tried to sanitize the holiday into a night of community gathering,
在19世纪末，美国试图将这个节日净化成一个社区范围内聚会的夜晚，
rather than a celebration of ghosts and ghouls.
而不是庆祝鬼魂和食尸鬼的节日。
But clearly, that didn't work.
但很显然，没起到任何效果。
Because by the turn of the 20th century,
因为到了20世纪初，
Halloween parties with costumes games and seasonal food quickly became the most popular way to celebrate Halloween.
万圣节聚会、奇装异服、各种游戏以及季节性食物很快成为了庆祝万圣节最受欢迎的方式。
So over time, Halloween went from an ancient fall harvest festival to attained mostly about candy,
因此，随着时间的推移，万圣节从一个古老的秋收日开始，逐步演变成了伴有糖果、
costumes tricks, treats, and spooky fun.
奇装异服、宴会和幽灵表演元素的节日。