Then one Christmas I received a surprise gift—a large, beautifully made wooden chest.

后来，有一年圣诞节，我收到了一份惊喜礼物———个制作精美的大木箱。

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One Christmas, Celina received a special gift: a blue plastic piece.

有一年圣诞节，塞丽娜收到了一份特别的礼物——蓝色的塑料片。

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One Christmas Eve, Scrooge sees the ghost of Jacob Marley, his dead business partner.

一个圣诞夜，斯克鲁奇看到了他死去的商业伙伴雅各布·马利的鬼魂。

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Then in preparing for the show, one of the children tells about the true meaning of Christmas.

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Once you get that, once you get the value, "Christmas tree," as opposed to "red lights," "red lights" being perhaps a part of some Christmas trees, then you see that you're back in a semiotic system and a very obvious one, because a Christmas tree is a not-menorah, not-Kwanzaa candles.

一旦认识到这点，红灯，指的其实是圣诞树“,红灯是圣诞树的一部分，那么你会发现你回到了符号学的解释中，圣诞树不用于犹太教或者非洲人的节日。

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because they have one of the biggest Christmas trees there, and it's just beautiful and

因为那儿有一棵最大的圣诞树，它很漂亮，

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But the general feeling is that for one Christmas, it will be worth it.

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One Christmas he persuaded a shop to use white lights for its big displays instead of coloured ones.

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She sat chained in a van outside Scotland Yard all one Christmas, in 1974, while a friend blew the lights on the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square.

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