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他们，是圣诞节最核心的部分。让一棵冷杉树挤满你小小的起居室；吃一个外形奇怪的鸟兽；欢迎一个从烟囱闯进你家的“入侵者”；盯着第五块咸肉饼，好奇里面究竟会有些什么。How many of us stop to think how it all began? Let’s have a look where our festive traditions come from.有多少人会停下来想自己为什么要这样做？你真的懂圣诞吗？现在就来验证一下吧。圣诞老人Red robes, white beard, waist-slapping jollity and booming ho-ho-hos. He’s been around for ever, hasn’t he?身穿红色长袍，面长白色长胡，欢乐地拍打自己胖胖的腰部，发出“呵呵呵”的声音，他就是一直以这种形象陪伴我们成长，不是吗？Actually only since 1935, when Haddon Sundblo, a Madison Avenue advertising man, created Santa Claus for a Coca-Cola campaign.直到1935年，麦德逊大道（美国广告业中心）的广告人Haddon Sundblo为了可口可乐运动创造了圣诞老人。In previous lives he was thinner and paler, a character based on a 4th Century Asian bishop called Nicholas, who became the patron saint of children in most of Europe.先前他效仿四世纪一个叫的Nicholas亚洲主教，把自己弄得既瘦又苍白。在欧洲大部分地方，孩子们都把这位主教看成是自己的保护神。It was in Holland, where they called him Sinterklaas, that he earned his reputation for giving stuff away. A small pair of wooden shoes would be left by the fireplace and he would fill them with sweets.在荷兰，因为他经常派礼物给人们，赢得了不少名誉，人们称他为圣尼古拉。如果人们在火炉旁放置一对小小的木鞋子，他就会把它们塞满糖果。What about Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer? Debt-ridden shopworker Robert Mays invented him in 1947 as the hero of a bestselling book that made him a fortune.那红鼻子驯鹿鲁道夫又是怎么来的？负债累累的店员Robert Mays在1947年创造了它作为畅销书的主角，因此赢得了丰厚的回报。 |
