The estimate is backed up by payments company Visa Europe, which expects 960,000 transactions worth 36 million pounds will be made on Visa cards on Christmas Day.

支付公司维萨欧洲证实了上述预期。 据维萨欧洲预测，消费者在圣诞节将通过维萨卡进行96万笔网购，消费金额高达3600万英镑。

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With a Christmas tune occasionally squeaking out of a small black radio held together by brown rubber bands, the family was already thinking how they would celebrate the biggest day of the year.

圣诞节的乐曲从一个被褐色橡皮带捆起来的黑色小收音机里稀舒的传出来，这个家庭已经在考虑如何庆祝这个一年中的最重要的日子。

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A game organised by English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish ex-pats led to the creation of the Calcutta Rugby Club on Christmas Day 1872.

来自英格兰、威尔士、苏格兰和爱尔兰的侨民在加尔各答组织了一次比赛，之后的1872年圣诞节，加尔各答橄榄球俱乐部宣告成立。

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And then you know, I just had to watch "The Nightmare Before Christmas" by myself in my apartment and called it a day, so.

然后我只得一个人在公寓看《圣诞夜惊魂》。一天就过去了。

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Washington (CNN) -- One hundred and fifty new full-body scanning machines are set to be placed in airports across the United States as federal authorities work to close security loopholes exposed by the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner.

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He was detained by police in Lusaka on Christmas Day, then charged with knowing about preparations for an attempted coup in October 1997.

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And after several days of violent street battles with secret policemen still loyal to the dictator, Nicolae Ceasescu and his wife Elena were caught, tried, and executed by a revolutionary court on Christmas Day, 1989.

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