英文原版对话1000个:933 Sharron's Christmas

Dai: OK so Christmas is coming around the corner. How do you feel about that?

Sharron: I love Christmas. I love the time with the family, the time off work to relax and enjoy each other's company and just time at home with everyone.

Dai: So, what do you .... what's like a traditional Christmas for you then?

Sharron: Well, the build-up is a bit of a nuisance¹ really. It's a lot of money, but it's good fun and it's great. The end result, Christmas morning, watching everybody opening the presents that I've bought and things, but, yeah, a traditional Christmas would be rushing around Christmas Eve getting all the last minute things. Probably up 'till very late, wrapping² presents, and then up early Christmas morning, opening presents, a family visit to see our daughter opening her presents as well, and then it's normally³ shared around some of the family. We do a different Christmas dinner every year. Either we ...

Dai: Christmas dinner? What kind of ... ?

Sharron: Right! Christmas dinner back home is a big roast⁴ turkey and all the trimmings: stuffing⁶, vegetables ...

Dai: Stuffing?

Sharron: Stuffing. It's like herbs⁷ and breadcrumbs and onions and things. All made up and you stuff⁵ it under the skin of the turkey and when the turkey roasts⁸ it cooks in there as well. It's really, really tasty. So we have sort of a family meal and one year we'll go to one of the parent's houses or they'll come to us. We just change it 'round every year. And then normally, it's sort of a lazy afternoon after we've eaten far too much, and watching some of the traditional British television: The Queen's speech at 3 o'clock every Christmas Day.

Dai: So the Queen gives a speech?

Sharron: Yeah. Tells everybody how her year has been and what she thinks Britain has achieved in the last twelve months and how she thinks things are going to go for the next twelve months and it's on for about twenty minutes I suppose. Not everybody watches it. Sometimes people, after their large lunch, have fallen asleep in the chair by the time it's on the TV, so ...

Dai: Right.

Sharron: But Christmas night then, it's normally cold turkey sandwiches, pickled onions, crisps⁹.

Dai: Crisps? Like ...

Sharron: Like ...

Dai: Potato chips?

Sharron: Potato chips, yeah, sorry, potato chips, yeah. We call them crisps back home so ...

Dai: OK.

Sharron: Sit in front of the TV again. It's just a generally family time.

Dai: Sounds pretty lazy.

Sharron: It is. Very lazy. Boxing Day then is ...

Dai: Boxing Day?

Sharron: Yeah, now Boxing Day is the day after Christmas Day.

Dai: So the 26th?

Sharron: The 26th of December. Saint¹⁰ Steven's Day, but we have another day's holiday then so ...

Dai: Why is it called Boxing Day?

Sharron: I haven't got a clue¹¹. Not a clue.

Dai: Think it's cause everyone gets rids of their boxes?

Sharron: Could be. After all the Christmas gifts, yeah. But we generally have a busier day the next day. There's a lot of sports activities going on where we live. In Temby, which is a local seaside town, they have a big Boxing Day swim, which is unheard of in the winter. Nobody goes in the sea much in the summer, where we live.

Dai: Right, it must be really cold.

Sharron: Very cold.

Dai: Like, what would that be in degrees?

Sharron: Oh, I don't know, but people dress up and run in the sea for charity¹². People give donations¹³ for money and it's all in a good cause and it's a bit of fun. But there's also football matches and rugby matches and things.

Dai: So you generally have a good time.

Sharron: Yeah, most people go out on Boxing Day. It's a more active day than Christmas Day. Christmas Day is the day where most people tend to stay in and be with the family and Boxing Day we will go out and meet up with friends generally.
 

1 nuisance   

n.讨厌的东西，讨厌的人

参考例句：

• The dog is a terrible nuisance.这只狗真令人讨厌。
• What a horrid nuisance!真讨厌！

2 wrapping   

n.包装材料；包装纸v.包，裹住(wrap的现在分词)adj.包装用的

参考例句：

• He spent the evening wrapping up the Christmas presents. 他花了一个晚上的时间把圣诞礼物都包了起来。
• She tore the cellophane wrapping off the box. 她把包装盒子的玻璃纸撕了下来。

3 normally   

adv.正常地，通常地

参考例句：

• I normally do all my shopping on Saturdays.我通常在星期六买东西。
• My pulse beats normally.我脉搏正常。

4 roast   

v.烤，炙，烘；n.烤肉；adj.烤(烘)过的

参考例句：

• There's a piece of roast beef.这儿有一块烤牛肉.
• Put the meat into the oven to roast.把肉放到炉子里去烤。

5 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

6 stuffing   

n.填充物vt.填充(stuff的现在分词)

参考例句：

• We had a chicken and stuffing, and new potatoes from the garden. 我们吃了只百宝鸡，还有园子里种的新鲜马铃薯。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She had already mixed the stuffing for the dumplings. 她已经把饺子馅和好了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

7 herbs   

草本植物( herb的名词复数 )； 药草，香草

参考例句：

• the curative properties of herbs 药草治病的功效
• the therapeutic properties of herbs 草药的医疗效用

8 roasts   

n.烤肉( roast的名词复数 )；户外烧烤野餐；以取笑方式赞扬某人一生行事的聚会v.烤，烘，焙( roast的第三人称单数 )；嘲讽；（对某人）非常生气，严厉批评

参考例句：

• Enjoy this wine year round with pizza, grilled steak, roasts and barbecues. 此酒也适合配合批萨，烤肉，烧烤饮用，不分季节。 来自互联网
• The boastful boy roasts a cast loaf on the coast. 牛皮男孩在海岸上烤一条丢弃的面包。 来自互联网

9 crisps   

n.炸马铃薯片( crisp的名词复数 )v.（使）变脆( crisp的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• It'says on the packet that these crisps contain no additives. 包装上说这些炸薯片不含添加剂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She skipped normal meals to satisfy her craving for chocolate and crisps. 她不吃正餐，以便满足自己吃巧克力和炸薯片的渴望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 saint   

n.圣徒；基督教徒；vt.成为圣徒，把...视为圣徒

参考例句：

• He was made a saint.他被封为圣人。
• The saint had a lowly heart.圣人有谦诚之心。

11 clue   

n.线索；提示；词语

参考例句：

• She will clue you in about this.她将为你提供这方面情况。
• No clue to his whereabouts has been found.至今没有找到有关他行踪的线索。

12 charity   

n.慈悲，博爱，慈善团体，施舍

参考例句：

• He founded the charity in memory of his late wife.他兴办那个慈善机构以纪念他已故的妻子。
• He gave a handsome sum of money to charity.他向慈善团体捐了一笔相当可观的钱款。

13 donations   

n.捐赠( donation的名词复数 )；赠送；捐款；捐赠物

参考例句：

• The hospital receives a good deal of money in donations. 这家医院收到捐赠来的大笔款项。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The charity is completely reliant on public donations. 这一慈善团体完全依靠公众捐款。 来自《简明英汉词典》