本周的探索新闻，我们来关注关于圣诞树和圣诞驯鹿的故事。我同时用了两种叫法，是因为我发现驯鹿在北美洲被叫做 "caribou"。
In this week's Discovery News story concerning Christmas trees and reindeer, I use both words, noting that reindeer are called "caribou" in North America.
天知道，但是圣诞老人的驯鹿绝对是非常强壮的。
他说，为了“烘托圣诞气氛”，他们在圣诞老人的新头盔上装上了红色的驯鹿角。
Santa's new hard hat has been decorated with red reindeer antlers to "Christmas it up a bit," he added.
他说，为了“烘托圣诞气氛”，他们在圣诞老人的新头盔上装上了红色的驯鹿角。
Santa's new hard hat has been decorated with red reindeer antlers to "Christmas it up a bit, " he added.
员工和海獭扮成圣诞老人和驯鹿的样子令在场的观众很高兴。
Employees, and sea otters are dressed as Santa Claus and reindeers, attracting the audience.
这是因为北极与格陵兰相连驯鹿们往往可以把小孩子的信带到居住在格陵兰的圣诞老人手中。
The North Pole is connected to Greenland via ice, and the reindeer post can therefore always reach its correct destination regardless of where in Greenland Santa Claus actually is.
孩子们会准备好牛奶和饼干才上床睡觉，那是给圣诞老人和他的驯鹿享受。
Children leave out milk and cookies before they go to bed, for Santa and his reindeer to enjoy.
小孩子们相信：在圣诞节的前一夜，圣诞老人乘坐驯鹿拉的雪橇从空中而来，他从壁炉的烟囱进入到每家每户，他把给孩子们的圣诞礼物放在圣诞树下。
They believe that — on the night before Christmas — he travels through the air in a sleigh pulled by reindeer. He enters each house from the top by sliding down the hole in the fireplace.
圣诞小鹿，这种生长于北美洲的驯鹿，能直接帮助并促进树木在野外的生长。
Reindeer, known as caribou in North America, can directly aid such trees by promoting their growth in the wild.
我喜欢有关雪的一切，即使住在热带关岛的时候，我还喜欢圣诞老人、精灵、驯鹿、雪人，还有拐杖糖。
I love the snow-themed everything, even when I was living on tropical Guam, and Santa and elves and reindeer and snowmen and candy canes.
束紧驯鹿身上的挽绳，将礼物装上雪橇车，中欧和东欧大地一片银装素裹。圣诞老人将会给这个地区带来什么礼物呢？
THE reindeer are straining at the harness, the sledge is packed and snow is falling softly all over central and eastern Europe. So what should Santa bring the region?
他们有数百年的经验，已经造出了‘相对云’，可以将圣诞老人以及他的雪橇和所有驯鹿置于其中。
"With their hundreds of years of experience," says Dr Silverberg, "they've made 'relativity clouds' that fit around Santa, his sleigh, and all of the reindeer."
幸好圣诞老人想到了鲁道夫，虽然鲁道夫的红鼻子使其他的驯鹿不愿意与他为伍，但它发亮的红鼻子却为圣诞老人照亮了前进的路。
Luckily Santa think to use Rudolph, who had just spent 90 minutes of a movie being ostracized for being different, as lead reindeer, lighting the way with his glowing red nose.
“为了成为今天的冠军，”节目主持人微笑着拉着长音说道，“圣诞老人的两头驯鹿取名字。”
"To be today's champion, " the show's smiling host intoned, "name two of Santa's reindeer."
我很喜欢圣诞节，喜欢和雪有关的一切，即使住在炎热的关岛也不例外。圣诞老公公，淘气精灵，驯鹿，小雪人，糖果拐杖都令我着迷。
even when I was living on tropical Guam, and Santa and elves and reindeer and snowmen and candy canes.
为寻找有力证据，你可以实际上过去拜访圣诞老人，并看看精灵、玩具、驯鹿和邮局，这些使得芬兰的声明相当有力。
For the evidence inclined, you can actually go visit Santa and see the elves, toys, reindeer and post office, which makes Finland's claim pretty strong.
没有雪花飞舞，没有驯鹿踟蹰，圣诞依然光顾；有了祝福，虽是寒冬冷酷，温暖依旧如故。圣诞节，我祝福：愿快乐从此为你停住！
No snow, no reindeer along, Christmas visit; Have a blessing, although it was winter cold and warm remains unchanged. Christmas, I wish: may the joy and stop for you!
在教室里，可以用圣诞树、锡箔装饰和驯鹿来庆祝圣诞节，却绝对不能提及那个出生日被纪念的人。
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers but there must be no mention of the Man whose birthday is being celebrated.
到我们家做客的人能看到雪人、驯鹿，当然还有圣诞老人了。
People who visit our house will see snowmen (and snowwomen), reindeer, and of course, Santa Claus.
义乌一整年都在售卖圣诞老人主题商品和LED驯鹿，使得这里的人们好像每天都在庆祝圣诞节一样。
Santa Claus-themed items and LED reindeer are sold in Yiwu through the year, making it seems that people here celebrate Christmas every day.
要是今年负责拉雪橇的驯鹿集体感染了类似疯牛病的“疯鹿病”，圣诞老人被迫取消节日怎么办？
What if this year the reindeer all fall ill, perhaps due to Crazy Reindeer disease (the analog to Mad Cow) and Santa is forced to cancel Christmas?
那时，我最擅长画猫，狗，驯鹿和圣诞老人。
Cats, dogs, reindeer , and Santa Claus were my specialties then.
那时，我最擅长画猫，狗，驯鹿和圣诞老人。
Cats, dogs, reindeer , and Santa Claus were my specialties then.
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