450)h=450">Lenny下班等公車遇到同事Susan , 問Susan明天要裝扮成什麼，問得Susan一頭霧水。Lenny: Hey Susan, what are you coming as this year?Susan: Coming as?L: Halloween! We have a big office party tomorrow evening. There's a prize for best costume!S: Um...I have to confess, I haven't given it much thought. ---1---.原來是公司明天晚上要開萬聖節派對，萬聖節是Halloween 又稱鬼節，是美國最熱鬧的節日之一。Susan 說，I have to confess. confess 是主動交代的意思，Susan 說自己沒怎麼好好想。I haven't given it much thought. to give some thought to something 指對某事認真考慮，Susan說，中國不過萬聖節，這裏用的 celebrate 是慶祝的意思，可以說 Halloween is not celebrated in China; 也可以說 We don't celebrate Halloween in China. 主動，被動都可以。L: Really! You don't have some kind of Chinese ghost festival?S: . We have an entire month! In traditional Chinese culture, "Ghost Month" is ---2---.L: Cool! A whole month! What do you do during that month?S: Well, ---3---, ---4---. Mainly though, you need to feed the ghosts because they're n說，中國雖然不過萬聖節，但是農曆裏卻有整整一個月來祭奠陰間來訪的鬼，稱爲鬼月。祭奠的方式包括放鞭炮 set off firecrackers，燒紙錢burn paper money，到寺廟裏去燒香等，但是最重要的是要把餓鬼餵飽。L: Feed them? S: set up tables with food, fruit and drinks and offer that to the hungry ghosts.L: And then later everyone eats the food?S: Yes! How did you guess that?L: It makes sense, right? Who else is going to eat it?S: Good Point!L: But no dressing up like ghosts, right?S: No! (chuckle) Halloween essentially the same thing as "ghost month?"Susan說，鬼月的時候，大家會在桌子上擺放食物，水果，飲料等等，進奉給餓鬼。不過，在中國過鬼月，不用裝扮成鬼的樣子，people don't dress up like ghosts. dress up 可以指穿成某種樣子，也可以指穿得很正式，比如, I dressed up for a job interview today. 意思是我今天有個工作面試，所以穿正裝。那中國的鬼月跟西方的鬼節一樣嗎？我們下次繼續聽。I'm from China and Halloween really isn't celebrated therea period when the door between this world and beyond opens up and ghosts come back to earth for a visitpeople sometimes set off firecrackerssome people burn paper money as an offering and many people go to a temple to burn incense這篇材料你能聽出多少？點擊這裏做聽寫，提高外語水平>>
