年圣誕節(jié)傳統(tǒng)習(xí)俗英語(yǔ)故事-為何要戴紙帽子 中英對(duì)照

2023年12月8日發(fā)(作者：超越自己作文)

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圣誕節(jié)傳統(tǒng)習(xí)俗英語(yǔ)故事為何要戴紙帽子

All over Britain on Christmas Day, families can be

found sitting around their dining tables enjoying a

traditional lunch of roast turkey with all the trimmings -

and all, regardless of age, wearing coloured paper hats. It

is rumoured that even the Queen wears her paper hat over

lunch!

圣誕節(jié)當(dāng)天，全英國(guó)的家庭都會(huì)坐在餐桌前，吃一頓傳統(tǒng)的圣誕大餐，塞滿了各種餡料的烤火雞。無(wú)論年齡老幼，所有人都會(huì)在頭上戴一頂彩色紙做成的紙帽子。據(jù)說(shuō)，就連伊莉莎白女王也會(huì)戴紙帽子哦！

So why this quaint tradition? Where do the paper hats

come from? The answer is the Christmas Cracker.

那為什么會(huì)有這個(gè)古怪的傳統(tǒng)呢？戴紙帽子的傳統(tǒng)來(lái)源于哪里？答案就在另一項(xiàng)圣誕傳統(tǒng)活動(dòng)——圣誕拉炮！

A Christmas Cracker is a cardboard paper tube, wrapped in

brightly coloured paper and twisted at both ends. There is

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a banger inside the cracker, two strips of chemically

impregnated paper that react with friction so that when the

cracker is pulled apart by two people, the cracker makes a

bang.

圣誕拉炮是用硬紙板做的紙筒，再用色彩鮮艷的彩紙包裹在外面，兩端擰緊。在拉炮里會(huì)有一個(gè)爆竹，當(dāng)兩個(gè)人拉動(dòng)拉炮兩端時(shí)，拉炮里的兩條浸漬紙就會(huì)發(fā)生摩擦，發(fā)出“嘣”的響聲。

Inside the cracker there is a paper crown made from tissue

paper, a motto or joke on a slip of paper and a little gift.

拉炮里會(huì)裝有紙做的皇冠、寫(xiě)在紙上的名言或笑話，還會(huì)有一些小禮物。

Christmas crackers are a British tradition dating back to

Victorian times when in the early 1850s, London confectioner

Tom Smith started adding a motto to his sugared almond

bon-bons which he sold wrapped in a twisted paper package.

圣誕拉炮成為英國(guó)傳統(tǒng)的歷史可以追溯到維多利亞時(shí)期，約在19世紀(jì)xx年代早期，倫敦的一個(gè)糖果商湯姆-史密斯把寫(xiě)有名言的紙片放在第 2 頁(yè) 共 3 頁(yè)

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