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麻烦英语高手们帮我翻译一下这篇文章，感激不尽~~

在太古时期，有一种凶猛的怪兽，散居在深山密林中，人们管它们叫“年”。“年”的形貌狰狞，生性凶残，专食飞禽走兽、鳞介虫豸，一天换一种口味，从磕头虫一直吃到大活人，让人谈“年”色变。慢慢地，人们掌握了“年”的活动规律，原来它每隔365天窜到人群聚居的地方尝一次口鲜，而且出没的时间都是在天黑以后，等到鸡鸣破晓，它们便返回山林中去了。男男女女便把这可怕的一夜视为关煞，称作“年关”，并且想出了一整套“过年关”的办法：每到这一天晚上，家家户户提前做好晚饭，熄火净灶，再把鸡圈牛栏全部拴牢，然后把宅院的大门封住，躲在屋里吃“年夜饭”——由于这顿晚餐具有凶吉未卜的意思，所以置办得很丰盛，除了要全家老小围在一起用餐表示和睦团圆外，还须在吃饭前先供祭祖先，祈求祖先的神灵保佑他们平平安安地度过这一夜。吃过晚饭后，谁都不敢睡觉，挤坐在一起闲聊壮胆。

天色渐渐黑了下来，“年”从深山老林里窜了出来，摸进人群聚居的村落。只见家家户户宅门紧闭，门前还堆着芝麻杆，街上却瞧不见一个人影儿。转了大半个晚上的“年”毫无所获，只好啃些芝麻杆充饥。再过些时，公鸡啼晓，这些凶残而又愚蠢的怪物只得怏怏返回。熬过“年关”的人们欣喜不已，要感谢天地祖宗的护佑，要互相祝贺没有被“年”吃掉，还要打开大门燃放鞭炮，去同邻里亲友见面道喜……

这样过了好多年，没出什么事情，人们对年兽放松了警惕。就在有一年三十晚上，年兽突然窜到江南的一个村子里。一村子人几乎被年兽吃光了，只有一家挂红布帘、穿红衣的新婚小两口平安无事。还有几个童稚，在院里点了一堆竹子在玩耍，火光通红，竹子燃烧后“啪啪”地爆响，年兽转到此处，看见火光吓得掉头逃窜。此后，人们知道年兽怕红、怕光、怕响声，每至年末岁首，家家户户就贴红纸、穿红袍、挂红灯、敲锣打鼓、燃放爆竹，这样年兽就不敢再来了。在《诗经·小雅·庭燎》篇中，就有“庭燎之光”的记载。所谓“庭燎”就是用竹竿之类制作的火炬。竹竿燃烧后，竹节里的空气膨胀，竹腔爆裂，发出噼噼啪啪的响声，这也即是“爆竹”的由来。

可是有的地方，村民不知年兽怕红，常常被年兽吃掉。这事后来传到天上的紫微那儿，他为了拯救人们，决心消灭年兽。有一年，他待年兽出来时，就用火球将它击倒，再用粗铁链将它锁在石柱上。从此，每到过年，人们总要烧香，请紫微星下界来保平安。

这种现象逐渐蔚成了绵绵相传的“过年”和“拜年”的风俗，“拜年”的风俗内容丰富，通常的顺序是：先拜天地，次拜祖宗，再拜高堂，然后出门去拜亲朋友好，亦有初一拜本家、初二拜岳家、初三拜亲戚……等各种讲究，直至拜到正月十五，所谓“拜个晚年”。
望大家为本小姐性命担忧一下，帮着翻译下啊~~~感激不尽，感激不尽啊~~~

Answer 1

这是”年兽“传说嘛 呵呵 正好有篇译文 ^_^

In the Pacific time, there is a ferocious monster, scattered in the dense forests and mountains, the people they called "years." "" The morphology ferocious, brutal nature, the fresh Feiqinzoushou, putting scales referred insects a day for a taste from kowtow to eat the pest has been living, people talk about "the" colors. Slowly, people mastered the "in" activities of the original it every 365 days and fled to the settlement of the crowd a taste of fresh mouth, and appeared in the dark all the time, the cock crow until dawn, they returned to the mountains in went there. Men and women who put this terrible night as clearance rack, known as the "New Year", and come up with a set of "New Year off" approach: to this day every night, every household in advance to dinner, net stove off, and then Niulan tying all the chicken circle jail, and then shut the door of the house, hiding in the house to eat "dinner" - as this Dayton dinner with Xiongji uncertain meaning, setting up very rich, in addition to the family youngest Wai said that dining together in harmony reunion, they also need to eat before the first for the ancestors, pray for ancestors and the gods bless them safely through the night. After dinner, no one dared not sleep, crowded chat embolden them to sit together.

And the weather gradually down, "" come from the mountains, channeling out Mojin villages inhabited by the crowd. Chemen closed only households, also Duizhao sesame-front, and the streets are not a Renyinger discovered. To the more than half of the evening "," There is no acquired, but chew on some sesame-eat. In a some time, the Jiti-known of these heinous and stupid monster only Yangyang return. Get through the "Year" delight of the people, we should thank the护佑ancestral world, we should not congratulate each other "," eat, but also open the door to set off firecrackers to meet with neighborhood friends and relatives Daoxi……

This has been good for many years, did not Chushenmashi situation, people, animals relax vigilance. 30 in a year on the evening of the beast of a sudden he went Jiangnan village. A village was almost in animal Qiguang, only a link red curtains, wearing a red wedding the couple safely without incident. Several Tongzhi in the courtyard of a pile of bamboo points in the play, red flames, burning bamboo after "Papa" to Baoxiang, the beast go here, see the Flames make a U-turn run scared. Since then, the people know the animals afraid of red, Boguang, afraid beep, to the end, living each and every household to paste the Red Canvas, wearing Dahongpao, hanging red, Qiaoluodagu, fireworks and firecrackers in such a beast will not dare to come back. "The Book of Songs xiaoya Chamber Liao" in the article, there is "the light of the Court of Liao" records. The so-called "Liao Court" is produced by bamboo pole like a torch. Bamboo poles combustion, the air in the expansion of bamboo, bamboo cavity burst issued Pipipa popping beep, that is, "firecrackers" Origin.

But in some places, the villagers do not know the animal afraid of red, the animals are often eaten. Later, the matter reached the heavens Zi-wei there, in order to save his people, to the eradication of the beast. One year, he was a beast coming out of the question, it will be knocked down by a fireball, and then rough chains will be locked in stone on it. Since then, every New Year, people have to burn incense, purple MSI lower bound to security and peace.

This phenomenon has gradually become continuous spread the "New Year" and "New Year's" customs, "New Year's" customs rich content, usually in the order: first Baitiande, the ancestral Baidoa, Zaibai GAO Tang, and then go out Qubai friends and family friendly also thanks his household in early, the first two days of Baidoa Yuejia, the third day of Baidoa, and other relatives…… stress until the fifteenth day thanks to the so-called "happy new old age."

Answer 2

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