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一只南瓜重达 1431.5 公斤，雕成南瓜灯后还能保持原来的重量吗？文章先介绍 10 月 30 日吉尼斯世界纪录的新认证：史上最重的南瓜在美国塞勒姆镇被雕成了史上最重的南瓜灯；再交代南瓜从哪里来、为什么选在以 1692 年“女巫审判”闻名的塞勒姆展出；然后讲 32 小时的雕刻过程，以及为何要加上许多小芜菁；接着转到英国萨福克郡，一位农场主和儿子比赛种南瓜，她分享了自己的照料方法；最后说明节后两只巨型南瓜的去向。阅读时可留意 because、while、so that、if 如何连接原因、对比、目的和条件，以及 then、earlier this month 等词如何交代先后顺序。

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Every autumn, people carve faces into pumpkins and put lights inside them for Halloween. This year, one jack-o’-lantern in Salem, a town in the US state of Massachusetts, was very different. It was made from the heaviest pumpkin ever grown, and on 30 October Guinness World Records said it had become the heaviest jack-o’-lantern of all time.

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每年秋天，人们都会在南瓜上刻出面孔，并在里面放灯来过万圣节。今年，美国马萨诸塞州塞勒姆镇的一盏南瓜灯与众不同。它用有史以来最重的南瓜制成。10 月 30 日，吉尼斯世界纪录宣布，它已成为史上最重的南瓜灯。

The pumpkin was grown by Ron Wallace, a well-known gardener of very large vegetables. Earlier this month, it won a giant pumpkin weigh-off in New England, in the north-east of the US, with a weight of 1,431.5 kilograms. Todd Graves, who started the restaurant chain Raising Cane’s, then got the pumpkin and brought it to Salem for the town’s 400th anniversary celebrations.

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这只南瓜由罗恩·华莱士种植，他是一位以种植超大蔬菜闻名的园丁。本月早些时候，它以 1431.5 公斤的重量在美国东北部新英格兰地区的一场巨型南瓜称重比赛中夺冠。随后，连锁餐厅 Raising Cane's 的创始人托德·格雷夫斯得到了这只南瓜，并把它带到塞勒姆，参加该镇的 400 周年庆典。

Salem is a fitting place for such a record. The town is known for its witch trials in 1692, in which about 20 people died. Today its Halloween festival, with ghost tours and costume parades, attracts more than two million visitors every October.

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塞勒姆很适合创下这样的纪录。小镇以 1692 年的女巫审判闻名，那次审判中约有 20 人死亡。如今，小镇的万圣节节庆活动有幽灵之旅和变装游行，每年 10 月吸引两百多万游客。

Turning the pumpkin into a jack-o’-lantern took a team of carvers 32 hours. They added bats, a witch and a skeleton, using pieces cut from the pumpkin to make shapes around its edge. They also added many small turnips, because the first jack-o’-lanterns were carved from turnips, not pumpkins. When the work was finished, a Guinness judge confirmed that it still weighed 1,431.5 kilograms. That beat the old record of 1,246.9 kilograms, set in 2023.

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一支雕刻团队花了 32 个小时把这只南瓜做成南瓜灯。他们刻上了蝙蝠、女巫和骷髅，并用从南瓜上切下的碎块在边缘做出各种造型。他们还加上了许多小芜菁，因为最早的南瓜灯是用芜菁而不是南瓜雕成的。完工后，一位吉尼斯认证官确认它仍重 1431.5 公斤。这打破了 2023 年创下的 1246.9 公斤的旧纪录。

Not every big pumpkin is grown for a world record. In Suffolk, in the east of England, farmer Frances Crickmore grows giant pumpkins in a family contest with her son. This year her pumpkin weighed 349 kilograms, while his weighed only 44. She told the BBC that she feeds hers a mix of manure and water twice a week. She also covered it every night with blankets, coats and towels, and she now hopes to break the world record.

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并不是每只大南瓜都是为了世界纪录而种的。在英格兰东部的萨福克郡，农场主弗朗西丝·克里克莫尔和儿子在家里比赛种巨型南瓜。今年她的南瓜重 349 公斤，而儿子的只有 44 公斤。她告诉 BBC，她每周给南瓜浇两次粪肥和水的混合液。她还每晚用毯子、外套和毛巾把它盖好，现在她希望打破世界纪录。

What happens after Halloween is also part of the story. The Salem jack-o’-lantern will stay on show until 1 November. Then it will be cut up and sent to a farm in New Hampshire as food for pigs. Crickmore has a similar idea. She plans to give away the pumpkin’s 400 to 500 seeds so that other people can try to grow their own, and the rest will feed the farm’s cows, if it can be cut up. She said they may need a chainsaw. In both places, a giant pumpkin brings people joy and then does not simply go to waste.

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万圣节之后会发生什么，也是故事的一部分。塞勒姆的南瓜灯将展出到 11 月 1 日，之后会被切开，送到新罕布什尔州的一家农场当猪饲料。克里克莫尔也有类似的想法。她打算把南瓜里的 400 到 500 颗种子送给别人，让他们也能试着自己种；如果南瓜能切得开，其余部分会拿去喂农场的牛。她说，他们可能需要一把电锯。在这两个地方，巨型南瓜先给人们带来快乐，之后也不会白白浪费。

新闻来源

• Guinness World Records · Heaviest pumpkin dons carved costume in Salem to turn into heftiest jack o’lantern ever (30 Oct 2026)
• BBC News · Farmer reveals recipe for scarily big pumpkins (30 Oct 2026)

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