VOA常速英语2018--华盛顿居民健康跑庆万圣（在线收听）

Cartoon characters, movie villains, superheroes and angels, hundreds of exotically addressed runners took part in the 5k race through the congressional cemetery in Washington DC. The race appropriately for Halloween is called the Dead Man’s Run, the many tomb stones, ominous music and approaching nightfall served as a backdrop for this event. It’s become a tradition in Washington for runners to combine celebrating Halloween and keeping fit.

卡通人物、电影反派、超级英雄和天使，数百名充满异国情调的赛跑者参加了在华盛顿特区国会墓地举行的5公里赛跑。这场为万圣节而举行的比赛被称为“死人赛跑”，许多墓石、不祥的音乐和临近的黄昏成为了这场比赛的背景。在华盛顿，跑步者把庆祝万圣节和保持健康结合起来已经成为一项传统。

“I think it’s awesome, yeah, I mean cemeteries are, can give this spooky aura to them, but they’re also like essentially like a park. I mean in the Victorian era people would actually like go on a picnic in graveyards.”

我觉得这太棒了，是的，我是说墓地可以给人们带来这种恐怖的气氛，但它们本质上也像一个公园。在维多利亚时代，人们会喜欢在墓地里野餐。

“It’s my local cemetery, I supported at every turn as I can. I’m actually dying to get into this race.”

这是我当地的墓地，我尽我所能地支持。我真的很想参加这场比赛。 

And the entry fees for the race help to maintain the historic graveyard.

比赛的报名费有助于维护这片历史悠久的墓地。 

“It’s actually a good annual fundraiser for us, we’ve done it about seven years in a row now. Main goal is to bring new people into the cemetery that have never been here before, so it kind of live-ins up a cemetery, if you will and of course to raise money, it raises about 10000 dollars for us every year. ”

对我们来说，这实际上是一个很好的年度筹款活动，我们已经连续七年这么做了。主要的目标是把以前从未来过的新人带进墓地，是为了长眠于此，当然也是为了筹钱，我们每年可以借此筹款十万美金。

Runners of all ages came from around the city to race through the cemetery.

各个年龄层的跑步者从城市各处赶来参加墓地跑。 

“We are doing out senior prom or eternal senior prom, because we never went to our senior prom, so we thought we’d dress for the occasion and stroll the area.”

“我们要参加毕业舞会，或者永远的毕业舞会，因为我们从来没有参加过毕业舞会，所以我们想穿衣服去参加毕业舞会，然后去附近逛逛。”

“Oh, I like doing it, it’s fun. It’s a nice evening race because I am not a morning person, so it’s very conveniently time and it’s a fun race. It’s a good theme and it’s a fast course and it’s fun to see all the costumes.”

哦，我喜欢这样，很有趣。这是一个不错的晚会，因为我不是一个爱早起的人，所以这个时间点非常方便，这是一个有趣的比赛。这是一个很好的主题，它是一个快速的过程，看到所有的服装很有趣。

“And we’re not trying to win we’re trying to finish that’s our goal.”

我们不是在努力赢得胜利，我们是在努力完成我们的目标。 

“I walk my dogs here just about every morning and so we’re part of the cemetery community. And it’s a great community and these races are a great way to get people to turn out who support what’s going on at cemetery.”

我几乎每天早上都在这里遛狗，所以我们是墓地社区的一员。这是一个很棒的社区，这些比赛是一个很好的方式，让人们知道谁支持在墓地发生的事情。

Prizes were awarded in four categories, man’s, woman’s, kids and Best Costume.

奖项分为四个类别，男士，女士，儿童和最佳服装。