英语博客-北美风情 183、Christmas

  Merry Christmas everyone! We know we’re early this year, but we wanted time to get you in the Christmas spirit¹. This holiday season, Harp² and Maura look at Christmas over the years, talking about their own Christmas traditions³ and how things change as we grow up. They also talk about what’s new and happening this Christmas. Whether you celebrate this holiday or not, learn more about how it happens in Canada.

　　Maura: First we’re gonna talk about Christmas past; then we’re gonna talk about the present, what’s happening right now; and the future, upcoming Christmases.

　　Harp: Yes. So let’s get started, Maura.

　　Maura:Oh, Christmas past. I like thinking⁴ about past Christmases; I feel so nostalgic.

　　Harp: I know, me too. I love Christmas. I love the Christmas season.

　　Maura:You know, it’s interesting, though, how things change as the years go by and things are different now from when we were young. Do you have any good Christmas stories from when you were younger, Harp?

　　Harp: I just remember waking up on Christmas morning and my mom would never know what to get us when we were in our teenage years…

1 spirit   

n.烈酒（常用复数）；精神；情绪

参考例句：

• You're feeling her spirit.你感受着她的精神。
• His selfless spirit is worth praising.他的无私精神值得赞扬。

2 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。

3 traditions   

n.传统( tradition的名词复数 )；惯例

参考例句：

• one of the theatre's most hallowed traditions 戏院最受尊崇的传统之一
• He said that the new building merely aped the classical traditions. 他说那栋新建筑只是模仿古典传统。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 thinking   

n.思考，思想；adj.思考的，有理性的；vbl.想，思考

参考例句：

• All thinking men will protest against it.凡是有思想的人都会抗议这件事。
• Thinking is mainly performed with words and other symbols.思想主要是用言语和其他符号来表达的。