For some people it's a religious occasion.

对有讲这是个具有宗教色彩的节日。

Brides are given jewellery as part of their dowry and it is deemed auspicious to buy bullion around certain religious festivals.

珠宝往往会作为新娘的嫁妆，而且某宗教节日期间购买金条被视为种吉兆。

U.S. officials say they'll continue efforts to bring an end to the violence and work to extend the ceasefire to which both sides agreed during a religious holiday, though there are reports that the fighting still continued during that time.

美国官员表示，他将继续努力结束暴力，并努力延长双方宗教节日期间达成的停火协议，尽管有报道称战斗那段时间仍继续。

While Qingming Jie is not strictly a religious festival, some families will pray to their ancestors or to other deities to seek blessings for those still on earth.

虽然清明节严格说并不是个宗教节日，但是家庭也会向他的祖先或其他神灵祈祷，为世的祈福。

First, some saw Thanksgiving as a religious holiday. They noted the president could not use the power of the federal government to urge Americans to follow -- or not follow -- a religious tradition.

首先，有把感恩节视为宗教节日。 他指出，总统不能利用联邦政府权力敦促美国遵循或不遵循某种宗教传统。

That is the main feast day of a religious holiday honoring Saint Joseph.

这是个纪念圣约瑟夫的重要宗教节日。

Christmas is now celebrated again, but it's mostly a religious holiday.

现圣诞节又可以庆祝了，但是它主要是个宗教节日了。

They're about spending time with your family whether you celebrate the religious meaning or not, you spend time with your family, you appreciate what you have and you just spread the love.

不管你是否庆祝宗教节日，它都是和家的时光，你花时间和家，你珍惜你所拥有的，你只是传播爱。

It is an integral part of religious and cultural festivals, social celebrations, and gatherings.

它是宗教和文化节日、社会庆典和聚会的重要组成部分。

The Church honored him with a holy day in the 17th century.

17世纪的时候，教堂为了纪念他，就设立了个宗教节日。

First, some saw Thanksgiving as a religious holiday.

首先，认为感恩节是个宗教节日。

Can you name some festivals of religious nature?

你能说出几个由宗教的节日吗？

It's a holiday for all religions and people.

这是所有宗教和民的节日。

It also shifted from a more religious holiday to a secular one.

它也从个具有宗教色彩的节日转变为个世俗节日。

Easter, of course, is a religious festival.

毋庸置疑，复活节是个宗教节日。

The Elizabethans didn't invent theater; they have ancient Greece to thank for that, and during the medieval period in England, morality plays, mystery plays, and other performances during religious holidays and ceremonies were staged.

伊丽莎白时代并没有发明戏剧；这要归功于古希腊，中世纪时期的英国，道德剧、神秘剧和其他宗教节日和仪式上上演的表演。

So I originally thought sort of Middle East, and when he said it was perhaps a religious festival and a saint, I then started thinking of sort of like Christian Orthodox and Catholic countries.

我开始想到的是中东，当他说这可能是宗教节日，还说到信徒时，我开始想到基督教东正教和天主教国家。

Back then, for Catholic families, it was the day you had to go to church, you were required to go to Mass on that day. It had much more the feeling of a religious holiday than a public holiday.

" 以前的时候，信奉天主教的家庭会去教堂，要做弥撒。这个节日更像是个宗教节日而不是大众的节日" 。

In the seventeenth century days of thanksgiving were religious holidays, days of fasting and prayer, giving thanks to God for things like rain ending a drought or success in battle, as well as for good harvests.

17世纪，感恩节是宗教节日，是斋戒和祈祷的节日，是感谢上帝让雨水结束干旱，战争中胜利，让取得良好的收成。

No one seems to know for sure if December 25th was actually the date of Christ's birth, but it is possible that Christian leaders in Ancient Rome wanted to replace pagan religious holidays that occurred around the same time.

好像没有能肯定12月25日就是基督的实际诞生日，而更有可能的是，古罗马的基督教领导想要以此取代几乎同时举行的异教徒的宗教节日。