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，口红是什么时候开始使用呢？ 那么，口红是什么时候首次被人们使用？是：a）大约3000年前特人使用，b）大约4000年前埃及人使用， 还是c）大约5000年前苏美人使用？

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

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.

特人崇拜许多神祗，被称作“德鲁伊”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年历史木乃伊是赛特人。

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might have been to suppose it the person of one of the Celts who built the barrow, so far had all of modern date withdrawn from the scene.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，他本能反应或许会把那个人当做是时候建造那冢特人，感到老过去又在这副景致中再现。

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.

特人和本土不列颠人被逼到远离撒克逊人征服地区，如爱兰、苏格兰、威士和康沃，有些人甚至逃到布列塔尼，这就是布列塔尼这个听起像英国名字。

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，包括维京人在内代日耳曼人一直在庆祝圣诞节，特人也庆祝类似节日。

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

后罗马人入侵欧洲，他们接受了特人新年习俗，并在自己节日加入这些习俗。

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

特人相信，逝者灵魂会在10月31日这一天回到他们家中，这一天是秋季盛宴日子。

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

这一天也是特人认为凡人与超自然之间界限最薄弱一天。

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

2000多年前，大家所知道特人住在欧洲北部。

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

这就是有关特人最早故事之一。

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，特人全年庆祝八个不同宗教节日：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季节变化。

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

大约在公元前 1200 年，我们有这些叫做特人民族开始到达英国。

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，特人开始庆祝他们为期3天新年。

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是，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，这或许也是他们在战斗中无畏无惧部分原因。

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特人自何方，但到了亚历山大年代，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大西洋群岛与爱兰诸岛。

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

他们自豪地说自己是自遥远阿卑斯山 “Keltoi”，特人。

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

在大多数美国人与萨温节或特人没有直接联系时候，南瓜灯就已经开始流行起了。

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.

特人生活在现在爱兰、苏格兰、英国和北欧部分地区，他们日历是一个年轮。