While these ghostly lights are usually confined to the Poles, extremely strong solar storms can drive them closer to the Equator.

虽然这种鬼火般的光通常只出现2极，极端剧烈的太阳风暴也会让它们出现赤道附近。

These ghost lights—variously called jack-o'-lanterns, hinkypunks, hobby lanterns, corpse candles, fairy lights, will-o'-the-wisps, and fool's fire—are created when gases from decomposing plant matter ignite as they come into contact with electricity or heat or as they oxidize.

这些幽灵灯— — 各种称为南瓜灯、 基朋克、 爱好灯笼、童话灯、 鬼火和愚人之火— — 是当分解植物物质的气体进入时点燃时产生的与电或热接触或氧化。

The late 1500s also gave us the first use of the term will-of-the-wisp, which referred to ghostly lights found in swamps and bogs that were believed to be caused by fairies.

16世纪末还首次出现了“鬼火” 一词，指的是和泥炭地中发现的幽灵般的光芒， 人们相信这是由妖精引起的。

" That is an ignis fatuus, " was my first thought; and I expected it would soon vanish.

“那是鬼火，”我首先想到；我期待它很快就会消失。