So, when was lipstick first used? Was it: a) around 3000 years ago by the ancient Celts, b) around 4000 years ago by the ancient Egyptians, or c) around 5000 years ago by the ancient Sumerians?

那么，口红什么时候开始使用的呢？ 那么，口红什么时候首次被人们使用？：a）约3000年前由古凯尔特人使用，b）约4000年前由古埃及人使用， c）约5000年前由古苏美尔人使用？

The Celts believed that there was a natural barrier between the living and the dead.

凯尔特人认为生者和亡者之间存在一道天然屏障。

The Celts worshipped many gods, and priests known as druids oversaw this worship.

凯尔特人崇拜许多神祗，被称作“德鲁伊”的祭司负责主持宗教信仰仪式。

I know. For example, they think the 4000-year-old mummies were Celts.

我知道。比如说，他们认为有4000年历史的木乃伊赛尔特人。

The first instinct of an imaginative stranger might have been to suppose it the person of one of the Celts who built the barrow, so far had all of modern date withdrawn from the scene.

如一位陌生人富于想像力，他的本能反应或许会把那个人当做古时候建造那古冢的凯尔特人，感到古老的过去又在副景致中再现。

The Celts and native Britons were forced into areas away from the Saxon conquest to places like Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall and some even fled to Brittany which is where Brittany got its British-sounding name from.

凯尔特人和本土的不列颠人被逼到远离撒克逊人征服的地区，如爱尔兰、苏格兰、威尔士和康沃尔，有些人甚至逃到布列塔，布列塔个听起来像英国名字的由来。

Yuletide has been celebrated for centuries by the ancient Germanic people, including the Vikings, and similar festivals were also celebrated by the Celts.

几个世纪以来，包括维京人在内的古代日耳曼人一直在庆祝圣诞节，凯尔特人也庆祝类似的节日。

Later, when the Romans invaded Europe, they adopted the Celts' New Year customs and used them in their own festivals.

后来罗马人入侵欧洲，他们接受了凯尔特人的新年习俗，并在自己的节日加入些习俗。

The Celts believed that spirits of the dead would return to their homes on October 31, the day of the autumn feast.

凯尔特人相信，逝者的灵魂会在10月31日一天回到他们的家中，一天秋季盛宴的日子。

This was also the day during which the Celts believed that the veil between the mortal and the supernatural was thinnest.

一天也凯尔特人认为凡人与超自然之间的界限最薄弱的一天。

Over 2000 years ago, people known as the Celts lived in Northern Europe.

2000多年前，家所知道的凯尔特人住在欧洲北部。

This is one of the earliest stories about the ancient Celts.

有关古凯尔特人的最早的故事之一。

Thousands of years ago, the Celts celebrated eight different religious festivals throughout the year: four solar festivals (winter solstice, spring equinox, summer solstice, and fall equinox) and four seasonal festivals, each marking a significant seasonal change.

几千年前，凯尔特人全年庆祝八个不同的宗教节日：四个太阳节（冬至、春分、夏至和秋分）和四个季节性节日，每个节日都标志着重要的季节变化。

In around 1200 BCE, we have these guys called the Celts who started to arrive in Britain.

约在公元前 1200 年，我们有些叫做凯尔特人的民族开始到达英国。

On the night of 31 October, after their crops had been harvested and stored for winter, the Celts began a 3-day New Year holiday.

在10月31日晚上，在庄稼丰收并做好冬储后，凯尔特人开始庆祝他们为期3天的新年。

Somewhat unusually for the time, the Celts believed in reincarnation — that they would be reborn on Earth to live and feast and fight again, which may have contributed to their fearlessness in battle.

在当时多少有点格格不入的，凯尔特人信奉灵魂转世——他们相信自己会再度降生到世界上，再次生活、宴饮、战斗，或许也他们在战斗中无畏无惧的部分原因。

While we don't know where the first Celts came from, by Alexander's time they had spread across Europe from Asia Minor in the east to Spain and the Atlantic islands of Britain and Ireland in the west.

虽然我们并不知道最初的凯尔特人来自何方，但到了亚历山的年代，他们已经散居到了欧洲各地，东至小亚细亚，西至西班牙及不列颠西洋群岛与爱尔兰诸岛。

They proudly said they were Keltoi or Celts who came from the far-away Alps.

他们自豪地说自己来自遥远的阿尔卑斯山的 “Keltoi”，凯尔特人。

And jack-o-lanterns first caught on at a time when most Americans had no direct connection to Samhain or the Celts.

在多数美国人与萨温节或凯尔特人没有直接联系的时候，南瓜灯已经开始流行起来了。

The Celts, who lived in what is now Ireland, Scotland, the UK, and parts of Northern Europe, based their calendar on the wheel of a year.

凯尔特人生活在现在的爱尔兰、苏格兰、英国和北欧部分地区，他们的日历一个年轮。