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mischief night

  • 恶作剧之夜:一种在美国部分地区流行的传统活动,通常在万圣节前夜(10月30日)举行,年轻人会在这一夜进行各种恶作剧行为。

英英释义

Mischief Night

  • abstract: Mischief Night (also known as Devil's Night, Hell Night, Cabbage Night, Gate Night, Mizzy Night, Miggy Night or Goosing Night) is an annual tradition in parts of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States when people (primarily teenagers and preteens) take a degree of license to play pranks and do mischief in their neighbourhoods. The most common date for Mischief Night in England and North America is October 30, the day before Halloween.

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  • The restless energy of the "mischief night" found expression in new surroundings: rowdy boys knocked down fences tipped over outhouses and wreaked other havoc.

    恶作剧之不安能量环境有了新的表达方式,闹哄哄男孩子推倒围栏,弄小屋,到处惹是生非

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  • The restless energy of the "mischief night" found expression in new surroundings: rowdy boys knocked down fences, tipped over outhouses, and wreaked other havoc.

    恶作剧之不安能量环境下有了新的表达方式,闹哄哄男孩子推倒围栏,弄小屋,到处惹是生非。

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  • Long ago, British children believed that every year they were entitled to one lawless night of pranks they could not be punished for, and this was called Mischief Night.

    从前英国孩子相信他们每年有权力晚上随心所欲,恣意妄为并且做什么不会惩罚。 他们还一晚美其名曰“淘气之夜”。

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  • "Where the Wild Things Are. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another " It was a spot near the trees that frame the South lawn, where books borrowed from a local library were read aloud.

    VOA: standard.2009.04.13

  • For sheer gratuitous destruction, you'd have to conjure a suburban teenager on Mischief Night.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Five patients from McNamara's old hospital sat in the front row on opening night, "laughing like drains" at seeing their mischief portrayed on stage.

    BBC: Ouch

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