年圣誕節傳統習俗英語故事-為何要戴紙帽子 中英對照

2023年12月8日發(作者：成考分數)

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圣誕節傳統習俗英語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!

圣誕節當天，全英國的家庭都會坐在餐桌前，吃一頓傳統的圣誕大餐，塞滿了各種餡料的烤火雞。無論年齡老幼，所有人都會在頭上戴一頂彩色紙做成的紙帽子。據說，就連伊莉莎白女王也會戴紙帽子哦！

So why this quaint tradition? Where do the paper hats

come from? The answer is the Christmas Cracker.

那為什么會有這個古怪的傳統呢？戴紙帽子的傳統來源于哪里？答案就在另一項圣誕傳統活動——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。在拉炮里會有一個爆竹，當兩個人拉動拉炮兩端時，拉炮里的兩條浸漬紙就會發生摩擦，發出“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.

拉炮里會裝有紙做的皇冠、寫在紙上的名言或笑話，還會有一些小禮物。

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.

圣誕拉炮成為英國傳統的歷史可以追溯到維多利亞時期，約在19世紀xx年代早期，倫敦的一個糖果商湯姆-史密斯把寫有名言的紙片放在第 2 頁 共 3 頁

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