"There’s no problem," responded brassard, who then went on to ask her about the "Halloween atmosphere in England at the moment...

“没问题。”布拉萨尔回答说，跟着继续问她“现在英国万圣节前夕的气氛如何,…

brassard: "I will send you the fax with the text, and then if you want to dress for Halloween just put on a hat."

布拉萨尔:“我将通过传真给陛下一个文本。另外，如果您参加万圣节要穿礼服的话，请戴上礼帽。”

Pumpkins are used in the U.S. for Halloween decorations.

番瓜在美国也作为万圣节前夕的装饰品。

Children would make halloween decorations, all kinds of orange-paper jack-o-lanterns

孩子们会制作万圣节的装饰品:各种各样桔黄色的南瓜灯。

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

还有一个典型的万圣节花招是把一卷手纸拉开，

Masks worn on holidays such as Halloween and Mardi Gras signal festivity and license.

节日里戴的面具，比如万圣节或者四旬斋前的最后一天所戴的面具是一种庆祝和许可的表示。

A lantern made from a hollowed pumpkin with a carved face,usually displayed on Halloween .

杰克灯，南瓜灯把南瓜挖空并雕成人面形状，通常在万圣节出现

Movies on DVD were supposed to be copy-proof, So why are illegal copies getting stamped out faster than Halloween sequels

数字视盘(DVD)电影应该是能防止盗版翻录的，但非法拷贝的产出速度为何比万圣节连续剧推出的速度还要快?

They bobbed for apples at a Halloween party

他们在万圣节前夕的晚会上，玩咬线挂苹果的游戏。

Halloween was called Samhain by the Irish. It came to be known as Halloween sometime around the fifth century A.D. .

万圣节在爱尔兰被叫做Samhain,公元第5世纪开始被称为万圣节。

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

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。

President George W. Bush, who was spending Halloween at his Texas ranch, has never reported seeing a ghost, Walters said

沃尔特说，布什总统的万圣节是在德克萨斯的农场度过的，他从未听布什总统说起过撞到鬼。

Chiao, 44, sent in his ballot Sunday night--"Halloween night and maybe that’s kind of appropriate."

现年44岁的焦立中是在周日晚上寄出选票的，他说:“万圣节的夜晚或许是个合适的时机。”

The traditional halloween you can read about in most books was just children’s fun night

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。

One kind of halloween mischief

一种万圣节的恶作剧。

halloween celebrations would start in October in every elementary school

在小学校里，万圣节是每年十月份开始庆祝的。

This yearly festival was later brought to the other regions of the world, including continental Europe and North America. Irish immigrants brought several customs with them, including one of the symbols most commonly associated with Halloween--the "Jack Lantern".

这一年一度的节日后来传到了世界各地，包括欧洲大陆和北美。爱尔兰移民带来一些他们的习俗，包括与万圣节相关的符号之一--“杰克灯笼”。

||1: To judge from opinion polls, this effort is succeeding, even if some of the metaphorical flourishes are in poor taste.||2:Some people seem to be confused about who does the chasing in a witch-hunt: at Halloween Republicans sold t-shirts depicting Democratic leaders as witches.||3:Actual coups, meanwhile, involve the telegenic seizure of the presidential palace with tanks, not expert testimony in plodding congressional hearings.||4:Lynching is an offensive analogy as well as an inapposite one; the murder of black Americans, often for imaginary transgressions, has little in common with the attempted removal of the world’s most powerful man by constitutionally sanctioned means.

||1:从民意调查来看，这种努力是成功的，即使一些隐喻性的华丽辞藻不合时宜。||2:有些人似乎搞不清到底是谁在进行政治迫害：在万圣节前夕，共和党人出售将民主党领导人描绘成女巫的t恤。||3:与此同时，真正的政变是用坦克占领总统府，而不是在冗长的国会听证会上提供专家证词。||4:私刑是一个令人不快的类比，也是一个不恰当的类比；对美国黑人的谋杀，通常是出于想象中的越轨行为，与试图通过宪法批准的方式罢免世界上最有权势的人几乎没有什么共同之处。

||1: BLISS spreads across Lalo’s face as his glossy black locks are blown dry by cooing stylists. ||2: Dogs big and small are beautified for 100 pesos ($7.70) in the back of a perspex-walled van run by Fluffy Shower, a mobile pet-salon that visits Mexico City’s posh neighbourhoods to apply shampoo and ribbons to upper-class animals. ||3: The sharpest dogs sport green, white and red jerseys to mark Independence Day on September 16th. ||4: Next month pet boutiques will sell Halloween pumpkin outfits and dainty witches’ hats.

||1:小狗拉罗的脸庞看上去喜气洋洋，因为设计师一边对它轻柔细语，一边吹干了它乌黑亮泽的毛发。||2: 移动宠物沙龙Fluffy Shower的小货车的车身是有机玻璃做的，花上100比索（7.70美元），无论大狗小狗都可以在车上做美容；Fluffy Shower经常到访墨西哥城的富人社区，给上层阶级的宠物打上香波和缎带。 ||3:为纪念9月16日的独立日，最机灵的狗狗要穿上绿白红相间的毛绒衫。||4:下个月，宠物精品店将会出售万圣节南瓜套装和华丽的女巫帽子。

This year Americans spent more than $400m on Halloween costumes for pets.

今年，美国人为宠物的万圣节装扮花费超过4亿美元。

As an example of what could happen, Halloween costumes from China often get stuck at Britain’s border while customs officials work out whether they are toys or children’s clothes, which attract different duties.

例如，可能会发生这样的情形：来自中国的万圣节服饰经常会困在英国边境，因为海关官员需要确定它们是属于玩具还是儿童服装——不同的类别对应不同的税率。

Next month pet boutiques will sell Halloween pumpkin outfits and dainty witches’ hats.

下个月宠物精品店还会推出万圣节南瓜装和精致的女巫帽。

The clothing of choice is usually sweatshirts and sunglasses or a Halloween mask, she added.

“（一般抢劫者）都会选择穿无领长袖运动衫和墨镜或者万圣节面具。”，她补充到。

The jack-o-lantern is the symbol of Halloween .

“空心南瓜灯”是万圣节的象征。

"My office right now is full of pumpkin seeds people sent in after Halloween , " he says.

“万圣节刚过，我的办公室里就堆满了人们寄来的南瓜种子。”他说。

"I wanted to make something that looks so real that when you go out for Halloween no one can tell, " Slusser said.

“我只想创作一些看起来更真实的东西，让大家在万圣节都辨认不出来，”Slusser这样说。

"My boobs, " she said. "but only on Halloween , and only for my friends. "

“最多会展示下胸部吧，”她说，“而且只在万圣节前夜，只对我的朋友公开。”

1880s: The Wunderie Candy Company created candy corn, the king of disappointing Halloween candy.

19世纪80年代：万德瑞糖果公司做出了糖果粒，令人失望的万圣节糖果之王。

Halloween parties can create a lot of waste, dropped sweet wrappers, discarded plastic masks, and unwanted pumpkins.

Halloween派对会滋长浪费，留下许多丢弃的糖纸和塑料面具，还会留下许多被抛弃的南瓜。

Customers include Halloween revelers, theme parks and a few TV shows and horror movies, Slusser said.

Slusser说，目前公司的主要客户是：万圣节狂欢者，主题公园，几家电视节目和几部恐怖电影。