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The origin of Santa Claus
History tells usthat the origin of Santa Claus begins in the 4th century with Saint Nicholas,Bishop of Myra (an area in present day Turkey). One of the legends tellsabout that he acquired a fortune when his parents died while he was still in histeens. By nature St.Nicholas was a generous and honest man, particularlydevoted to children. He also cared deeply for the poor. He brought variousgifts, money and other useful items to the houses of the poor. He did this atnight, and in secrecy, so that no one knew, as he wanted no glory, he justwanted to help people. He became widely known for his generosity.
据史料记载，圣诞老人的原型是公元4世纪的圣尼古拉斯，他是米拉(位于今土耳其境内)的主教。有一种传说认为在他十多岁的时候父母双亡，给他留下一大笔财产。圣尼古拉生来就是个慷慨正直的人，尤其喜爱孩子，还很关心穷苦人，给穷人家里送去各种礼物、钱以及其他有用的物品。他一般都是在夜里秘密地做这些事，这样就没人知道，因为他并不想获得什么赞颂，只是想帮助别人。很快，他就因自己的慷慨而广为人知。
There is one famous legend about SaintNicholas. The story tells of Nicholas hearing one day of three beautifulsisters who lived in a miserable hut on the edge of Myra. The three sisters were very poor. Theycould barely earn enough to keep themselves and their old mother from starvingto death. When Nicholas heard of their plight, he was very concerned. Hedecided to do something to help them.
有一个关于圣尼古拉斯的著名传说，讲的是有一天，尼古拉斯三联阅读3lian.com/zl/转载请保留听说在米拉镇边界上一所简陋的小屋里住着美丽的三姐妹。她们非常穷，赚钱很少，几乎难以保证自己和老母亲不被饿死。尼古拉听说了三姐妹的悲惨境况后非常担忧，决定帮助她们。
One night, when everyone was asleep, Nicholascrept through the streets to the edge of town. Quietly, he tiptoed up to thehut where the three sisters lived. He climbed onto the roof and dropped threebags of gold through the hole in the roof where the smoke from the fire cameout. Now it so happened that the three sisters has washed their stockingsbefore they went to bed. The stockings has been hung by the fire to dry. WhenNicholas dropped the gold through the smoke hole, each bag of gold fell into astocking.
一天夜里，当大家都入睡后，尼古拉斯蹑手蹑脚地穿街走巷，来到了小镇边界。他悄悄地踮起脚走到三姐妹住的小屋旁，爬上屋顶，把三袋金子顺着房顶炉火冒烟的洞口扔了下去。而三姐妹上床前恰巧刚洗完自己的长袜，把它们挂在炉火旁烘干。就在尼古拉斯把金子透过烟囱扔下去时，每袋金子分别落入了一只袜子中。
The three sisters were overjoyed to findthree bags of gold in their stockings when they woke up the next morning. Soon,the story began to spread. Other people began to hang up stockings in the hopeof finding bags of gold when they woke up in the morning. From this legendsprang the custom of hanging stockings up by the chimney on Christmas Eve. Overthe years, Saint Nicholas became associated with Christmas.
第二天一早，三姐妹醒来，发现她们的长袜里竟然有三袋金子，她们欣喜若狂。很快，这个故事便流传开来。其他人也开始把袜子挂起来，希望第二天早上醒来也能发现一袋袋的金子。圣诞夜那天把袜子挂在烟囱旁的习俗就是由这个传说而来。多年来，人们就把圣尼古拉斯与圣诞节联系在了一起。
After his death around 350 A.D. he was buried in Myra,but in 1087 Italian sailors purportedly stole his remains and removed them to Bari, Italy,greatly increasing St. Nicholas' popularity throughout Europe.His kindness and reputation for generosity and love for children gave rise toclaims that he could perform miracles and devotion to him increased. St.Nicholas became the patron saint of Russia, where he was famous for hisred cape, flowing white beard, and bishop's mitre. In Greece, he is the patron saint of sailors; in France he was the patron of lawyers, and in Belgium thepatron of children and travelers. The Dutch kept the legend of St. Nicholasalive. In 16th century Holland,Dutch children would place their wooden shoes by the hearth in hopes that theywould be filled with a treat and goodies.
尼古拉斯在约公元350年去世后，被葬于米拉;但据称在1087年，意大利水手们偷走了他的遗骨，转运到了意大利的(东南部港市)巴里，从而大大提升了尼古拉斯在整个欧洲的知名度。他的善良、慷慨以及对孩子的喜爱都让人们认为他会施魔法，人们更加热爱他了。尼古拉斯成了俄罗斯人的守护神，在那里，他以身披红斗篷，留着飘逸的白胡须，戴着主教法冠而闻名。在希腊，他是水手的守护神;在法国，他是律师的庇佑人;在比利时他则是孩子和旅行者的保护神。荷兰人一直都传颂着圣尼古拉的传说。在16世纪的荷兰，孩子们会把他们的木鞋放在壁炉边，希望里面会装满礼物和糖果。
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Santa claus(圣诞老人)也被称为: Father Christmas, Father Frost, Joulupukki, Kris Kringle, Pere Noel, Sabdiklos, Saint Nicolas
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Santa Claus[sAntE 5klC:z]n.圣诞老人Santa ClausSan.ta ClausAHD:[s²n“t… klôz”] D.J.[6s#n7t* kl%8z]K.K.[6s#n7t* kl%z]n.（名词）The personification of the spirit of Christmas, usually represented as a jolly, fat old man with a white beard and a red suit, who brings gifts to good children on Christmas Eve.圣诞老人：圣诞神灵的化身，常被描述成为一个快乐的，胖胖的，长着白胡子并穿红衣服的老人，他会在圣诞夜中给表现好的孩子带去礼物Probably alteration of Dutch Sinterklaas 可能为 荷兰语 Sinterklaas的变化 from Middle Dutch Sinterclaes [St. Nicholas] 源自 中古荷兰语 Sinterclaes [圣尼古拉斯] sint [saint] from Middle Dutch from Old French saint * see saint sint [圣人] 源自 中古荷兰语 源自 古法语 saint *参见 saintheer [lord] * see mynheer heer [主人] *参见 mynheerclaes short for Niclaes [Nicholas] claes Niclaes的简写 [尼古拉斯]
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Father Christmas- -圣诞老人It is said that in the year of 300 AD, there was a kind old man and his name was Saint Nicholas. He was always ready to help the poor and often gave presents to them.Today, Father Christmas is an imaginary figure, but nearly all young children believe in him. They think he is a happy old man with a long white beard and a long red robe.On the night of the twenty-fourth of December every year, Father Christmas from some cold northern land comes down the chimney of the fireplace to put presents by the beds of children or to fill their stockings. So when children go to bed that night, they hang up their stockings, and on Christmas morning they wake to find them full of presents. Of course, it's really their parents who fill the stockings.Another name for Father Christmas is Santa Claus.
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“圣诞老人”英文表达：Santa Claus、Santa、Kriss Kringle、Father Christmas
1、Santa Claus
读音：英 [ˈsæntə klɔ:z] 美 [ˈsæntəˌklɔz]
例句：Because I said Santa Claus: I need the gift what is a good friend like you!
因为我对圣诞老人说过：我需要的礼物就是一个你这样的好朋友！
2、Santa
读音：英 [ˈsæntə] 美 [ˈsæntə]
释义：[美]=Santa Claus. n. 圣诞老人
例句：Santa is riding on the sleigh pulled by reindeers.
圣诞老人驾着驯鹿拉的雪橇。
3、Kriss Kringle
读音：英 [ˌkrɪs'krɪŋɡl] 美 [ˌkrɪs'krɪŋɡl]
释义：n. 圣诞老人
例句：Some gifts from Kris Kringle are better kept wrapped.
耶诞老人给的某些礼物最好要有包装。
4、Father Christmas
读音：英 [fɑːðə ''krɪsməs] 美 [fɑːðə ''krɪsməs]
释义：圣诞老人
例句：Children didn't know who Father Christmas was.
孩子们不知道圣诞老人是谁。
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圣诞节相关英文
1、reindeer
读音：英 [ˈreɪndɪə(r)] 美 [ˈreɪndɪr]
释义：n.<动>驯鹿
例句：Reindeer receded northward and eastward, and bison and horse followed.
驯鹿向北方和东方撤退，野牛和马也随之而去。
2、Christmas tree
读音：英 [ˈkrisməs tri:] 美 [ˈkrɪsməs tri]
释义：圣诞树
例句：They decorated the Christmas tree with tinsel.
他们用亮金属片装饰圣诞树。
3、Christmas Eve
读音：英 [ˈkrisməs i:v] 美 [ˈkrɪsməs iv]
释义：n.圣诞节前夕(12月24日)
例句：We had a big family reunion on Christmas Eve and we had a wonderful night.
圣诞前夜我们全家大团圆，过了愉快的一晚。
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Santa Claus 圣诞老人（Santa Claus）西方童话故事人物．源于欧洲的民间传说。据说是一个穿红袍黑靴头戴红尖帽，坐着雄鹿的白须老人，在圣诞节夜到各家分送礼物给儿童.
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Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897 We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'Hanlon Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!
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圣诞老人（Santa Claus）是圣诞节的象征，源于欧洲民间传说，各国叫法和解释略有不同。传说每到12月24日晚上，神秘的圣诞老人会驾乘由驯鹿拉的雪橇从北方而来，挨家挨户地从烟囱进入屋里，然后偷偷把礼物放在好孩子床头的袜子里，或者堆在壁炉旁的圣诞树下。虽然没有人真的见过这个神秘人的样子，但人们通常认为他头戴红色圣诞帽子，大大的白色胡子，身穿红色棉衣，脚穿红色靴子，因为总在圣诞节前夜出现派发礼物，所以习惯地称他为“圣诞老人”。Santa Claus is a symbol of Christmas, originated from the European folklore, the called by countries and explain slightly different. According to the legend, on the night of December 24, The mystery Santa would ride by the sleigh pulled by reindeer and coming from the north, door to door from the chimney into the house, and then secretly put the present on their children bed of the socks, or pile in front of the fireplace under the Christmas tree. Although no one has ever really seen this mysterious person, But people usually thinks he's wearing a red Christmas hat, large white beard, dressed in red cotton-padded jacket, wearing red boots, because always appear distributing gifts on Christmas Eve, so used to call him "Santa Claus".
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