Santa Claus Preps for Christmas

聖誕老人準備聖誕節

Daniel Chen

【新聞關鍵字】

1. prep v. 預備

2. humming adj. 嗡嗡聲的

3. Arctic Circle ph. 北極圈

4. pour in ph. 蜂擁而至

5. elf n. 精靈

6. go n. 忙個不停

Tonight is Christmas Eve. Things are humming in the village of Santa Claus in the Arctic Circle.

今晚就是聖誕節了。在北極圈聖誕老人的村落中，聖誕老人們正嗡嗡地進行準備工作。

Letters to Santa have been pouring in – sometimes up to 30 thousand a day.

寫給聖誕老人的信件蜂擁而至，有時甚至一日高達三萬封。

[Heidi, Santa’s Head Elf]:

“Santa gets a lots of lots of letters, we elves are very busy reading them through, but even if you send them at last minute they will be read through just before Christmas, so you don’t have to worry about anything."

[海蒂，聖誕老人的精靈頭子]：

「聖誕老人有好多好多的信，我們聖誕精靈們都在忙著幫他看信。但是你也不必耽心，即使是最後一分鐘才寄過來的信，我們也會在聖誕節之前把它看完。｣

All systems are a go for Santa’s historic journey on Christmas Eve.

在聖誕節前夕，所有的系統都為了聖誕老人在聖誕夜的歷史旅程而忙個不停。

But there is still some mail to be checked from the 13 million letters which have been delivered to him from almost 200 countries.

然而，在來自近200個國家，1300萬封給聖誕老人的信件中，仍然有些信還沒被看完。

Santa himself gets lots of Christmas greetings but he also has this message for

everybody:

聖誕老人他自己收到了許多聖誕節的祝賀，而他也有些話想對大家說：

[Santa Claus]:

“What do I want to wish to the children and the people? I hope that each and every one of you can spend the Christmas time with your loved ones, with your families and with your friends, those who are important and dear to you. And I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year."

[聖誕老人]：

「我有什麼祝福要對小朋友和人們說？我希望你們每一個人，都能在聖誕節陪你愛的人，你的家人、你的朋友，還有那些對你很重要且親近你的人。祝福你們擁有一個非常快樂的聖誕節，和一個非常快樂的新年。｣