【话匣子英语】圣诞节礼物

圣诞节送礼物，人们一般都会选择亲近的好友和家人送，还有自己亲手制作的礼物，一定很特别吧。

 

Maura: Usually if it’s a close friend or family member, you might want to spend a little bit more money, but really it’s hard to say for sure. A lot of the time as well, people don’t exchange presents.

Harp¹: It’s usually an unspoken agreement² with the person if you’re going to give them a gift or not.

Maura: Sometimes you might be surprised when someone gives you a gift that you weren’t expecting. I personally³ don’t exchange gifts with a lot of my friends. That’s because we don’t need to spend all that money. We don’t need to buy each other a gift, and we just spend time together instead, so a lot of people chose to do that.

Harp: Yeah. Same thing with my friends. Sometimes we’ll exchange presents that we’ve made for each other. One of my favourite gifts that my friend ever gave to me was a hand knit⁴ scarf, so she made it, it wasn’t expensive.

1 harp   

n.竖琴；天琴座

参考例句：

• She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
• He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。

2 agreement   

n.协定；协议；契约；达成协议；同意，一致

参考例句：

• Finally we reached an agreement.我们最终达成了协议。
• The two countries signed a cultural agreement.两国签订了文化协定。

3 personally   

adv.亲自，直接，个人，就我个人来说

参考例句：

• I handed the book to him personally.书是我亲自交给他的。
• Personally,I prefer fall weather.我个人比较喜欢秋天的天气。

4 knit   

vt.编织，密接，结合，皱眉；vi.编织，变得紧凑，愈合；n.编织

参考例句：

• She could knit up a baby's coat in an afternoon.她能在一个下午织好一件婴儿的衣服。
• Our letters enabled us to knit up our old friendship.通信使我们恢复了旧日的友谊。