Dialog-Ben is with his Chinese friend Wei-lin

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Ben: Hey! Some of my friends are having a Halloween party. Would you like to go?

  Wei-lin: A what party?

Ben: A Halloween party. Halloween is a traditional American holiday. It’s a day when people dress up like ghosts and witches and other evil things.

  Wei-lin: That sounds scary! It reminds me of the Ghost Festival that we celebrate in Taiwan every summer.

Ben: Is that something like Halloween?

  Wei-lin: Well, we don’t dress up like ghosts, but we offer food for the ghosts to eat and burn paper for then to use as money.

Ben: That sounds cool! But do the ghosts really eat the food?

  Wei-lin: I don’t know, but last year on the Ghost Festival we put some cookies outside our door and the next morning they were gone.

班：我有一些朋友要舉辦萬聖節舞會，你想不想去？

  偉霖：什麼舞會？

班：萬聖節舞會。萬聖節是一個美國的傳統節日，這一天人們會盛裝打扮成鬼啊、女巫啊、還有其他邪惡的東西。

  偉霖：那聽起來很可怕耶！它讓我想起了台灣每年夏天過的中元節。

班：那是不是就像萬聖節一樣？

  偉霖：嗯，我們不會打扮成鬼一樣，不過我們會供奉食物讓鬼食用，還會燒紙錢讓他們用。

班：聽起來很正點喔！不過，鬼真的會吃嗎？

  偉霖：我不知道，不過，去年中元節我們擺了一些餅乾在門外，第二天早上就不見了。