前夜

Nowthere is much more to be said about the exceeding strange and wonderfulevents of those days; how some Suits of Microsoft plotted war upon thePenguin, but were discovered on a Halloween Eve; how Gates fell amonglawyers and was betrayed and crucified by his former friends, theapostles of Media; how the mercenary Knights of the Red Hat brought thegospel of the Penguin into the halls of the Corporations; and even ofthe dispute between the brethren of Gnome and KDE over a trollishLicence.

那时诞生了很多值得记录的佳音和咄咄怪事。比如：微软高层如何策动一场对企鹅进攻，却在万圣节前夜破产；盖茨如何陷入律师的困境同时被他过去的盟友—— Media 的使徒出卖并送上绞架；贪婪的 Red Hat 爵士如何将企鹅推进公司的深渊；以及 Gnome 和 KDE 如何手足相残。凡此种种都被记载在《圣经》的《企鹅之书》和《四代记》中。我想，如果将它们全部写下来，足够装满一堆 DVD 。如同 Usenet 新闻组一样深邃而危险。译注：1。 crucified ，指在十字街上钉死。是长时间以来深受欧洲人喜爱的死刑执行方法。

I often stay up late on the eve of the final exam.

我考试前夜我睡的很晚。

But on the eve of war that is not good enough.

但仅此在战争开始的前夜这是远不够的。

He had been arrested instead, on the eve of war.

然而就在二战的前夜，他被捕了。

We stand on the threshold of change, and whether this will come to good or ill I do not know.

我们站在改变的前夜，我并不知道这改变的结果是好是坏。

On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them

在战争的前夜许多人来找我，我不使他们失望。

All Hallows Eve has been traditionally seen as the one night of the year when the veil that separates the worlds of the living and the dead is at its most thin and penetrable.

万圣节前夜被传统地认为是分开生与死两个世界的帷幔在一年当中最微薄的一个晚上。

Contrary to the information published by many organizations, there is no archaeological or literary evidence to indicate that Samhain was a deity.

在中世纪，人们穿上动物造型的服饰、的戴上可怕的面具是想在万圣节前夜驱赶黑夜中的鬼怪。

Wedged between loudly chewing scullions, his heart beating double time, Simon resisted the wild impulse to lash out and knock cups and crockery spinning to the rush-strewn floor. The conversation infuriated him with its irrelevance, and the shepherd's pie that Judith had prepared especially for Belthainn Eve was as tasteless and unchewable in his mouth as wood.

夹在大声咀嚼的洗碗的仆人之间，他的心跳是平常的两倍，Simon尽力控制住自己冲动的情绪，以免猛地爆发，把那些杯子罐子通通扫到地上，让它们散落在地板上飞转不已，Judith特别为Belthainn节日前夜准备的铺着马铃薯泥的肉饼，在他嘴里就象木头一样没有味道，难以下咽。

Lesley Spoor and Chris Lassiter got engaged the night before Thanksgiving.

莱斯利和克里斯在感恩节前夜订婚。

Do you know, i need you to come back

你知道吗，我需要你回来

Yang yinshu、Wang xiangsheng、Li decang,The first discovery of haemaphysalis conicinna.

1〕 杨银书，王祥生，李德昌。安徽省首次发现嗜群血蜱。