Some folk kill two birds with one stone: by booking a short holiday abroad they can escape miserable winter weather and the strained atmosphere of a family Christmas with the relatives.

一些人选择一举两得的做法：短期的出国度假。这样一来，不仅避开了冬季的糟糕气候，还摆脱了与家庭亲友共度圣诞的紧张气氛。

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It could still pull off an attack that would kill hundreds, as the most recent plot to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009 attests.

他们仍能实施造成上百人死亡的袭击，就像他们最近一次被证实的在去年圣诞节密谋炸毁西北航空253航班的尝试。

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Oh, they think I'm too old now and I can't work anymore, so they want to kill me and by the way they can eat my flesh, for Christmas dinner.

他们认为我太老了，再也不能工作了，所以他们要杀了我，把我的肉拿去当作圣诞大餐。

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Films will also be shown in HD, with Hollywood blockbusters Kill Bill and Sin City promised for Christmas.

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Optimists in both camps still talked about how they would reach out to the other side when it was all over, like the World War I infantrymen who played soccer on Christmas Day before going back to their trenches to try to kill each other again.

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His hesitation has been understandable: powerful lobbies on one side have insisted that fast-track deals must be Christmas-treed with onerous labour and environmental provisions, while free-market Republicans vowed to kill any fast-track so adorned.

ECONOMIST: The United States looks south