Take Away English-Advent (耶稣)降临节
时间：2019-01-02 作者：英语课 分类：Take Away English
Christmas shopping is exciting for children
“Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat.”
Christmas is the biggest festival in Britain and is celebrated 1 on 25th December. The four weeks before Christmas are called Advent 2, and are traditionally 3 celebrated in churches by lighting 4 a candle each Sunday during Advent.
Nowadays, many people in Britain are not very religious 5, but they still celebrate Christmas. But watch out - the preparations begin long before Advent. In fact as early as September or October, you start to see signs that Christmas is on the way.
The first places to tell us that we should be thinking about Christmas are the shops. People in Britain spend on average over £600 (around $1000) per person on Christmas every year, and the shops encourage people to spend more and more.
Shops put up Christmas decorations and play cheesy Christmas songs or carols; and some shop workers wear Christmas hats. Some big shops on Regent Street and Oxford 6 Street in London create wonderful displays in their windows with moving characters, falling snow, colourful lights and music.
So what do people buy in preparation for Christmas? Well, Christmas decorations; Christmas cards to send to your friends and relatives; presents for your loved ones and wrapping 8 paper to wrap 7 them up with.
And of course food! Apart from the special Christmas dinner of roast 9 turkey or goose, people buy lots of chocolates, nuts and snacks for everyone to enjoy.
But the children are the most excited that Christmas is coming. They start making lists of presents they would like, and give them to their parents, or send them to Santa Claus. In December, they can also open their Advent calendars.
Advent calendars are a way of counting down to Christmas. They have a window to open for every day from 1st – 24th December (Christmas Eve).
A basic Advent calendar has a Christmassy picture behind each window, but the children’s favourite is usually a chocolate Advent calendar, with a chocolate for every day of the month. It’s a great build up to the overeating that goes on at Christmas!
GLOSSARY 词汇表
traditionally
传统上的
on the way
即将来临
on average
平均
per person
每一个人
encourage
鼓励
cheesy
俗套的
carols
圣诞颂歌
Christmas decorations
圣诞装饰
loved ones
亲人
wrapping paper
（礼品）包装纸
apart from
除…之外
snacks
小吃
Santa Claus
圣诞老人
calendars
日历
Christmassy
圣诞的
favourite 最喜欢的
最喜欢的
build up
累积
overeating
大吃大喝；过量吃喝
- He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
- The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
- Swallows come by groups at the advent of spring. 春天来临时燕子成群飞来。
- The advent of the Euro will redefine Europe.欧元的出现将重新定义欧洲。
- Traditionally,people clean the house before the Spring Festival.传统上，人们在春节前打扫房子。
- Medicine is traditionally the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year.根据传统，医学奖是诺贝尔奖每年颁发的第一个奖项。
- The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
- The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
- She is very religious person who goes to church every Sunday.她十分虔诚，每个星期天都上教堂。
- It is hard for me to reject religious beliefs.要我抛弃自己的宗教信仰是困难的。
- At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
- This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。
- You'd better wrap it with a piece of clean cloth.你最好用一块干净的布把它包起来。
- You can wrap the skirt around your waist.你可以把裙子围在腰间。
- He spent the evening wrapping up the Christmas presents. 他花了一个晚上的时间把圣诞礼物都包了起来。
- She tore the cellophane wrapping off the box. 她把包装盒子的玻璃纸撕了下来。