In Old English the word weird meant "fate" so calling the witches the weird sisters was equivalent to calling them prophetic.
在古英语中，weird是命运的意思，所以把女巫们叫做weirdsisters就好比称她们为预言者。
He well knew the futility of trying to contend against witches, so he gave up discouraged.
他深知与女巫斗争是徒劳无益的，所以他灰心丧气地放弃了。
Women were burned as witches in the Middle Ages.
在中世纪女人被当作巫婆烧死。
Long ago, people believed that witches gathered together and ghosts roamed the world on Halloween.
很久以前，人们相信女巫聚集在一起，鬼魂在万圣节前漫游世界。
Witches ain't got no power in the daytime.
女巫在白天没有法力。
They get caught in trees (hence the epithet "Witches' Knickers"), take hundreds of years to decompose and push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.
它们挂在枝头（由此而得“巫婆的灯笼裤”之名），需要数百年才能分解，它们助长石油需求，正是石油用于制造塑料。
In the movies we have all seen witches cursing people and turning their lives to hell but did you know that humans curse each other and force each other to live miserably without noticing?
在电影中，我们曾经都看到过女巫诅咒他人，并且将他人的生活变成地狱。但是，你并不知道人们也会暗中互相诅咒，使他人的生活陷入糟糕的境地。
One in particular concerns Gallows Hill, the site of several hangings, which is said to be haunted by the spirits of the 19 people lynched for being witches.
其中特别提到绞刑山，即几个绞刑的执行地，据说那被指责为巫婆而私刑绞死的19个人的鬼魂经常在那里出现。
What are our learned men save the descendants of witches and hermits who crouched in caves and in woods brewing herbs, interrogating shrew-mice and writing down the language of the stars?
我们的学者不过是那些蹲在洞穴和森林里熬药草、盘问地老鼠或记载星辰的语言的巫婆和隐士们的后代，要不，他们还能是什么呢?
Here I am in a pulpit, dressed like a Puritan minister -an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the extirpation of witches.
站在这个讲坛上，我穿得像个清教徒教长——一个可能会吓到我的杰出前辈们的怪物，或许使他们中的一些人重新致力于铲除巫婆的事业上。
Here I am in a pulpit, dressed like a Puritan minister - an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the extirpation of witches.
站在这个讲坛上，我穿得像个清教徒教长——一个可能会吓到我的杰出前辈们的怪物，或许使他们中的一些人重新致力于铲除巫婆的事业上。
Witchcraft, also called black magic, is the power or practices of witches.
巫术，也称黑魔法，是巫师，尤其是女巫施行的法术。
There were witches here before the Spanish. Here there is a mix of everything, even of God.
“这里可以追溯至古代，”他说，“这里比西班牙更早有女巫，这里是一切的混合，甚至包括上帝。”
The Knight Bus (below) ferries lost witches and wizards to their destinations late in the evening.
深夜骑士公车(下图)载着迷路的男巫和女巫，把他们送达了目的地。
Still, even at the height of hysteria, witches in England were rarely burned.
同时，即使是在这项行动的巅峰时期，在英格兰的女巫还是极少有被烧死的。
Yet on the Chitila River in southern Romania, other witches gathered around a fire Thursday and threw corn into an icy river to celebrate Epiphany.
然而在罗马尼亚南部Chitila河边，一些巫婆聚集于此，往结冰的河里投掷玉米庆祝主显节。
As for Rajkrishna Babu, he contented himself with admonishing me to be careful to keep the language and metre of the Witches' parts different from that of the human characters.
至于拉吉克里许那先生，他没有多言，只是告诫我，在女巫角色这一部分，所使用的语言和韵律，要仔细地使它与用在其他人物角色上的区分开来。
And in the Middle Ages deadly nightshade was believed to help witches fly.
在中世纪，致命的茄属植物还被认为能帮助巫婆飞起来。
The town holds an International Congress of Witches on the first Friday of every March.
这个镇在每年三月的第一个周五都会举办国际巫师代表大会。
But both of the accused and one of the accusers fail to sink in the river, thus indicating that they are witches.
但是两名被告和其中一名原告在河里沉下去了，这表明了他们都是女巫。
On Halloween day, I stood before a class of ghosts, witches, and hoboes, the only pirate in the school, probably the whole county.
万圣节当天，整个教室里都是鬼怪、巫婆和流浪人，我是学校里惟一的海盗，说不定在全国也是独一无二的。
As he pointed out about another work, "the Witches", it was "a book for children and I don't give a bugger what grown-ups think about it".
正如他在另一部作品《女巫》中所指出的，它是“一本适合儿童的书，我也管不着大人们是怎么想的”。
The belief in witchcraft is predominant amongst the underprivileged rural class, and it holds that child-witches bring destruction, waste, hardship, disease and death to their families.
在底层农村阶级中，巫术的信仰占着主导地位，这种信仰相信中了巫术的孩子会给他们的家庭带来毁灭、浪费、困苦、疾病和死亡。
Yet in purposely trying to rectify this so-called fault by creating what he called "active and dynamic" women in "The Witches of Eastwick" and "s," he only succeeded in making things worse.
针对对他的批评，他在《依斯特微克的女巫们》和《S》中创作出他称为“充满活力和积极向上的”女性，但是这些创作使事情更糟了。
In some cultures, spirits are held responsible, while in others, individuals are identified as witches and blamed for the misfortune.
在某些文化中，他们将之归咎于灵魂，但在另一些文化中，个人会遭到责难，被当成是带来厄运的巫师。
At first it was the province of gods, then sorcerers and witches.
最初，这是上帝的专能；后来巫师也会了。
And quite right, too. They get caught in trees (hence the epithet "Witches' Knickers"), take hundreds of years to decompose and push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.
塑料袋的确危害很大，它们挂在枝头(由此而得“巫婆的灯笼裤”之名)，需要数百年才能分解，它们助长石油需求，正是石油用于制造塑料。
And quite right, too. They get caught in trees (hence the epithet "Witches' Knickers"), take hundreds of years to decompose and push up demand for oil, used to make plastics.
塑料袋的确危害很大，它们挂在枝头(由此而得“巫婆的灯笼裤”之名)，需要数百年才能分解，它们助长石油需求，正是石油用于制造塑料。
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