用英文翻译下面这篇关于圣诞节的英语小短文 很急 谢谢各位大神! 圣诞节的英语小短文

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Christmas

The Feast of Christmas
It is not easy to pin-point the origins of the Christmas feast, today the more important feast of the Christmas season in most western Christian churches. One can only say for certain that the birth of Jesus Christ was being celebrated in Rome by the year 336 A.D.; afterwards the feast was celebrated in other Christian churches throughout the world.

Why it was celebrated on December 25th is another question. No date for the birth of Jesus can be found in the New Testament, which is concerned more with the question "Who is Jesus?" than the date of his birth. Early Christian speculation about his birth date was influenced by the symbolism of the changing seasons, then popular in religious thought, which paid careful attention to the equinoxes and solstices of the sun. Christian scholars speculated that Jesus was conceived at the spring equinox (March 25th) and therefore was born on December 25th, the date of the winter solstice.

In many of the Christian churches, March 25th is still the Feast of the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that she was to be the mother of Jesus.

Possible impluse for the feast of Christmas may have came too from the establishment of the pagan feast of the "Unconquered Sun-God" by the Emperor Aurelian in 274 A.D. to be celebrated on December 25, the day of the winter solstice in Rome and throughout the empire. In response, Christians could celebrate the feast of the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4,2), Jesus Christ, who called himself " the light of the world."


Father Christmas

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.
圣诞

节日圣诞节
这是一个不太容易针点起源的圣诞大餐，今天更重要的节日圣诞节，在多数西方国家的基督教教堂。人们只能肯定地说，耶稣基督的诞生正在庆祝在罗马由一年336专案，后来这个节日的庆祝活动，在其他基督教会在整个世界。

为什么这是庆祝12月25日是另一个问题。没有日期为耶稣诞生的，可以发现在新约圣经，这是较为关注这一问题： "谁是耶稣" ？超过了自己的出生日期。早期基督教的揣测，他的出生日期是受象征主义的四季变化，那么受欢迎，在宗教思想，其中支付小心注意这个equinoxes和solstices的太阳。基督教学者推测，耶稣被构思在春分（ 3月25日） ，因此出生于12月25日，该日期的冬至。

在许多基督教教堂， 3月25日仍是盛宴的annunciation ，当天使加布里埃尔宣布玛丽说，她是为了母亲的耶稣。

可能impluse为节日圣诞节可能来得由设立该异教盛宴的" unconquered太阳神" ，由皇帝aurelian在274个专案，以庆祝12月25日，是日冬至在罗马和整个帝国。对此，基督徒可以庆祝的节日"太阳的正义" （玛拉基书4,2 ） ，耶稣基督，自称"世界之光" 。


圣诞老人

据称，在一年的300专案，有一种岁男子，他的名字是圣尼古拉斯。他总是愿意帮助穷人，并常常给予礼物给他们。

今天，圣诞老人是一个虚构的人物，但几乎所有的幼童相信他。他们觉得他是一个快乐岁男子与长长的白胡子和一个长的红色长袍。

对夜的第二十四届每年12月，父亲从圣诞节有些寒冷的北方地归结为烟囱的壁炉把礼物，由张病床的儿童，或填补他们的袜子。因此，当孩子上床当天晚上，他们坑了自己的长筒袜，并于圣诞节早晨醒来发现他们充满了礼物。当然，它的真正父母，填补袜子。

另一名称为父亲圣诞节是圣诞老人。

圣诞节的来历（中英文版）

Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. No one knows the exact date of Christ's birth, but most Christians observe Christmas on December 25. On this day, many go to church, where they take part in special religious services. During the Christmas season, they also exchange gifts and decorate their homes with holly, mistletoe, and Christmas trees. The word Christmas comes from Cristes maesse, an early English phrase that means Mass of Christ. The story of Christmas comes chiefly from the Gospels of Saint Luke and Saint Matthew in the New Testament.

The history of Christmas dates back over 4000 years. Many of our Christmas traditions were celebrated centuries before the Christ child was born. The 12 days of Christmas, the bright fires, the yule log, the giving of gifts, carnivals(parades) with floats, carolers who sing while going from house to house, the holiday feasts, and the church processions can all be traced back to the early Mesopotamians.

Many of these traditions began with the Mesopotamian celebration of New Years. The Mesopotamians believed in many gods, and as their chief god-Marduk. Each year as winter arrived it was believed that Marduk would do battle with the monsters of chaos. To assist Marduk in his struggle the Mesopotamians held a festival for the New Year. This was Zagmuk, the New Year's festival that lasted for 12 days.

The Persians and the Babylonians celebrated a similar festival called the Sacaea. Part of that celebration included the exchanging of places, the slaves would become the masters and the masters were to obey. The ancient Greeks held a festival similar to that of the Zagmuk/Sacaea festivals to assist their god Kronos who would battle the god Zeus and his Titans.

The Roman's celebrated their god Saturn. Their festival was called Saturnalia which began the middle of December and ended January 1st. With cries of "Jo Saturnalia!" the celebration would include masquerades in the streets, big festive meals, visiting friends, and the exchange of good-luck gifts called Strenae (lucky fruits). The Romans decked their halls with garlands of laurel and green trees lit with candles. Again the masters and slaves would exchange places.

"Jo Saturnalia!" was a fun and festive time for the Romans, but the Christians thought it an abomination to honor the pagan god. The early Christians wanted to keep the birthday of their Christ child a solemn and religious holiday, not one of cheer and merriment as was the pagan Saturnalia.

Some legends claim that the Christian "Christmas" celebration was invented to compete against the pagan celebrations of December. The 25th was not only sacred to the Romans but also the Persians whose religion Mithraism was one of Christianity's main rivals at that time. The Church eventually was successful in taking the merriment, lights, and gifts from the Saturanilia festival and bringing them to the celebration of Christmas.

The exact day of the Christ child's birth has never been pinpointed. Traditions say that it has been celebrated since the year 98 AD. In 137 AD the Bishop of Rome ordered the birthday of the Christ Child celebrated as a solemn feast. In 350 AD another Bishop of Rome, Julius I, choose December 25th as the observance of Christmas.

The birth of Jesus had a story: In Nazareth, a city of Galilee. The virgin's name was Mary was betrothed to Joseph. Before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband was minded to put her away secretly. While he thought about these things, Gabriel, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and told him did not be afraid to take Mary as wife. And Mary will bring forth a Son, and he shall call his name, Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

Before Jesus births, Joseph and Mary came to Quirnius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up out of Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and of the lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

And that, Christmas is the feast of the nativity of Jesus, is on 25th, December every year. But nobody knows the actual birthday of Jesus. And the Christmas has become popular when Christmas cards appeared in 1846 and the concept of a jolly Santa Claus was first made popular in nineteenth Century.

The custom of giving gifts to relatives and friends on a special day in winter probably began in ancient Rome and northern Europe. In these regions, people gave each other small presents as part of their year-end celebrations.

In the 1800's, two more Christmas customs became popular--decorating Christmas trees and sending Christmas cards to relatives and friends. Many well-known Christmas carols, including ``Silent Night" and ``Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," were composed during this period. In the United States and other countries, Santa Claus replaced Saint Nicholas as the symbol of gift giving.

The word Xmas is sometimes used instead of Christmas. This tradition began in the early Christian church. In Greek, X is the first letter of Christ's name. It was frequently used as a holy symbol.

“圣诞节”这个名称是“基督弥撒”的缩写。弥撒是教会的一种礼拜仪式。耶诞节是一个宗教节。我们把它当作耶稣的诞辰来庆祝，因而又名耶诞节。这一天，世界所有的基督教会都举行特别的礼拜仪式。但是有很多圣诞节的欢庆活动和宗教并无半点关联。交换礼物，寄圣诞卡，这都使圣诞节成为一个普天同庆的日子。

圣诞节是基督教世界最大的节日。4世纪初，1月6日是罗马帝国东部各教会纪念耶稣降生和受洗的双重节日、称为“主显节”Epiphany，亦称“显现节”即上帝通过耶稣向世人显示自己。当时只有耶路撒冷的教会例外，那里只纪念耶稣的诞生而不纪念耶稣的受洗。

后来历史学家们在罗马基督徒习用的日历中发现公元 354年12月25日页内记录着：“基督降生在犹大的伯利恒。”经过研究，一般认为12月25日作为圣诞节可能开始于公元336年的罗马教会。12月25日原来是波斯太阳神（即光明之神）密特拉（Mithra）的诞辰，是一个异教徒节日，同时太阳神也是罗马国教众神之一。这一天又是罗马历书的冬至节，崇拜太阳神的异教徒都把这一天当作春天的希望，万物复苏的开始。可能由于这个原因，罗马教会才选择这一天作为圣诞节。这是教会初期力图把异教徒的风俗习惯基督教化的措施之一。后来，虽然大多数教会都接受12月25日为圣诞节，但又因为各地教会使用的历书不同，具体日期不能统一，于是就把12月24日到第二年的1月6日定为圣诞节节期（Christmas Tide），各地教会可以根据当地具体情况在这段节期之内庆祝圣诞节。

Six days after is the Christmas in the west, Christmas is a time of important, this is to commemorate the day of Jesus, they dress up the Christmas tree to eat Turkey on that day every family will sing Christmas songs give gifts to each other.But young children believe that Santa Claus.They will socks hanging in the head of a bed on Christmas Eve because Santa Claus will put gifts into the socks at night, of course, the real Santa Claus is their parents!In China many families will celebrate Christmas they pasted on the Windows snowflakes hanging lights send each other apple which is a symbol of happiness!
Now, I have three questions want to ask you
How do you spend Christmas in the west people?
Who is really is a Santa Claus?
Do you know what Christmas song is?How to sing?
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Christmas Day, which is an important festival in commemoration of Jesus in the Western world, is to come in six days. Turkey then will inevitably be the staple diet for every household; Christmas trees will be decorated to add more ambiance; Chorus of Christmas songs will ring through the house; And, not to mention the delicate gifts people send to each other as a means of expressing blessings.
Cuddly children who are credulous to the lore of Santa Claus, however, are the ones that parents should take tender care of. To achieve the kids' wishes for obtaining Christmas gifts from socks hanging at the head of the bed from Father Christmas, parents have to cast in the role of him.
Nowadays in China, Christmas is already a household name and a festival to be celebrated. Snowflakes are glued to the windows while colored lights are dangled around the room. Apples are a good choice as a gift to send to each other, which symbolize hapiness and peace.
Now, I have three questions for all of you.
First, how do Western people celebrrate Christmas Day ?
Second, who are the real Father Christmas?
Last but not least, how is a Christmas song like and do you know how to sing it?

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提问者正在等待您的回答Six days after is the Christmas in the west, Christmas is a time of important, this is to commemorate the day of Jesus, they dress up the Christmas tree to eat Turkey on that day every family will sing Christmas songs give gifts to each other.But young children believe that Santa Claus.They will socks hanging in the head of a bed on Christmas Eve because Santa Claus will put gifts into the socks at night, of course, the real Santa Claus is their parents!In China many families will celebrate Christmas they pasted on the Windows snowflakes hanging lights send each other apple which is a symbol of happiness!