英語句子學習：聖誕節的文化

Presents are bought and wrapped, and traditionally placed under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Christmas is both a secular and a religious holiday, and many families like to attend a midnight service at church on Christmas Eve, or celebrate Christmas in church on Christmas morning.

禮物是買來包好的，通常都是在聖誕夜擺放在聖誕樹下的。聖誕節也是世俗的宗教節日，許多家庭喜歡在聖誕夜去教堂參加午夜活動，或者在聖誕節早上去教堂慶祝聖誕。

The excitement begins for children on Christmas Eve, when they hang up their stockings(an old sock or, more ambitiously, pillow cases) around the fireplace or at the foot of the bed for Father Christmas to fill with presents. The English Father Christmas or Santa Claus is first recorded in his traditional red and white outfit in a woodcut of 1653, but the story of Santa arriving in his reindeer-drawn sleigh and descending down the chimney to fill children’s stockings with presents derives from the USA.

聖誕節最興奮的要屬孩子了，他們在壁爐邊或者牀角掛起襪子(一隻舊襪子，或者貪心點，一個枕頭)，來裝聖誕老人的禮物。英國的聖誕老人或者叫Santa Claus最先在1653年被木刻下來，穿着傳統的紅白服飾，但是關於聖誕老人坐馴鹿拉的雪撬來，並且下到煙囪裏給孩子送禮物的故事卻是來源於美國的。