年圣诞节传统习俗英语故事-为何要戴纸帽子 中英对照

2023年12月8日发(作者：超越自己作文)

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圣诞节传统习俗英语故事为何要戴纸帽子

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 the 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

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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.

拉炮里会装有纸做的皇冠、写在纸上的名言或笑话，还会有一些小礼物。

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.

圣诞拉炮成为英国传统的历史可以追溯到维多利亚时期，约在19世纪xx年代早期，伦敦的一个糖果商汤姆-史密斯把写有名言的纸片放在第 2 页 共 3 页

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