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Dracula’s castle will have overnight guests on Halloween, marking the first time since 1948 that anyone has slept in the Transylvanian fortress.

德古拉城堡將在萬聖節有賓客過夜，為1948年以來首度有人在這座外西凡尼亞的要塞內睡覺。

The site’s actual name is Bran Castle, and two people will get to sleep there Oct. 31 thanks to a promotion by Airbnb. The guests will be wined and dined, then left alone to lie down in red velvet-trimmed coffins just as Dracula did in the Bram Stoker horror novel that popularized the legend.

此處真正的名稱是布蘭城堡，拜Airbnb促銷活動之賜，2名幸運兒得以於10月31日在此過夜。賓客將接受美酒與美食招待，然後獨自躺進有紅絲絨花邊裝飾的棺材裡，一如讓吸血鬼傳奇廣為流傳的伯蘭．史杜克恐怖小說中描述的吸血鬼德古拉。

The castle is famous for its connection to Vlad the Impaler, a real-life prince who stayed there in the 15th century and had a cruel habit of using stakes to impale his victims. Vlad inspired Stoker’s story of Count Dracula.

該城堡以其與弗拉德三世有關而聞名，這位伯爵確有其人，15世紀時住過這座城堡，並有以棍樁穿刺受害者的殘忍習慣。弗拉德三世是史杜克創作出小說虛構人物德古拉公爵的靈感來源。

The castle is one of Romania’s top tourist attractions, with more than 630,000 visitors a year. （AP）

這座城堡是羅馬尼亞最主要的觀光景點之一，每年吸引超過63萬人造訪。（美聯社）

新聞辭典

leave someone or something alone：慣用語，讓某人獨處，或不理會某事物；不要去打擾某人或某事物。例句：Why don’t you just leave me alone!（你可不可以不要來煩我！）

lie down：慣用語，躺下。例句：I have a lower back pain and have to lie down on my stomach for a while.（我下背痛，得去趴一下。）

descendant：名詞，後裔，子孫。反義詞，ancestor，祖先。

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