西瓜英语怎么读经典圣诞节英语小故事

2021年1月11日发(作者：田澄)
经典圣诞节英语小故事

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!

圣诞节当天，全英 国的家庭都会坐在餐桌前，吃一顿传统的圣诞
大餐，塞满了各种馅料的烤火鸡。无论年龄老幼，所有人都 会在头上
戴一顶彩色纸做成的纸帽子。据说，就连伊莉莎白女王也会戴纸帽子
哦！

So why this quaint tradition? Where do these paper hats
come from? The answer is the Christmas Cracker.

那为什么会有这个古怪的传统呢？戴纸帽子的传 统来源于哪里？
答案就在另一项圣诞传统活动——圣诞拉炮！

A Christmas Cracker is a cardboard paper tube, wrapped in
brightly coloured paper and twisted at both ends. There is 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.

圣诞拉炮是用硬纸板做的纸筒， 再用色彩鲜艳的彩纸包裹在外面，
两端拧紧。在拉炮里会有一个爆竹，当两个人拉动拉炮两端时，拉炮< br>里的两条浸渍纸就会发生摩擦，发出“嘣”的响声。

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.