如今,许多企业、组织和家庭都试图通过向食品银行捐款、向穷人捐赠礼物或帮助有需要的家庭来保持节礼日的传统精神。
Today, many businesses, organizations and families try to keep the traditional spirit of Boxing Day alive by giving away money to Food Banks, providing gifts for the poor, or helping families in need.
节礼日是12月26日,起源于圣诞节时期,在这个时期许多富裕家庭会给必须工作的穷人送礼物。
Boxing Day, the 26th of December, got its name from a time when many rich families gave boxes of gifts to poor people who had to work at Christmas.
他们保留着古老的记忆——一位和蔼的老牧师将小礼物送给穷人以让其准备基督诞生的盛会。
They had kept alive an old memory - that a kindly old cleric brought little gifts to the poor in the weeks leading up to the Feast of the Nativity.
应用推荐