每日口說挑戰【聖誕英文】小時候你是不是也這樣幻想聖誕老公公(People Tell Childhood Stories About Santa Claus)

Santa is what compels you to want to spend time with family, to want to give back to the community, to want to be and share your life with people that you love.
他是一個把喜樂帶給所有人的精神象徵，可以體現於任何人身上。聖誕老公公會激發你想要跟家人一起共度時光、想要做些事情回饋社會、想要跟你所愛的人在一起，並且共同分享你的人生。
【Fun Song一下】(聽了星期一Lovely爸的分享，忍不住利用請假日錄唱一段:p) Merry Christmas!!!（可惜聖誕節還是要上班> <)
■spirit [ˋspɪrɪt]精神、心靈；熱情、活力；工業酒精(溶液)
spirits情緒、心境
精神、本意、本質；聖靈
鬼魂、幽靈；烈酒
使精神振作；鼓勵，鼓舞；迅速而神祕地帶走；拐走；偷走
■embody [ɪmˋbɑdɪ]體現、使具體化、具體表達；包含，收錄
■compel [kəmˋpɛl]強迫、逼迫、迫使；引起、激起
■community [kəˋmjunətɪ] 社區、社會團體、群體；(動植物的)群落
the community社會，公眾

耶！我的聲音差不多恢復九成了，這是最棒的聖誕禮物了。
之前喉嚨怪怪，鼻子又塞，講話超難過，現在要來開嗓一下～


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He's a spirit that brings joy and can be embodied in everyone and anyone. Santa is what compels you to want to spend time with family, to wanna give back to the community, to want to be and share your life with people that you love.

Merry Xmas.....

But....I need to overwork this night because I think to finish the new web service before the end of this week.

[Response]
@Dolphin Tsou
XD 聖誕快樂~~去酒店可以試喝一杯~~~誤~~~

可以呀! Dolphin要一起去嗎(欸

@Ann
讚啦!

XDDD

@Verna
Merry Xmas \(^o^)/

Merry Xmas!!

@Gavin
超讚的啦^^

thx

@unickname
讚^^

Yeah!!!

[Note]
He's a spirit that brings joy and can be embodied in everyone and anyone. Santa is what compels you to want to spend time with family, to wanna give back to the community, to want to be and share your life with people that you love.

他是個會帶來歡樂的精神象徵，在任何人身上都可以體驗到。聖誕老人激發你，讓你想花時間和家人相處，讓你願意和社群裡的人互動，願意和你愛的人分享你的生活。



1. _
* spirit [ˋspɪrɪt] (n.) 精神；主導精神
- Team spirit is critical to their performance.
+ 團隊精神對他們的表現至關重要。
* spiral [ˋspaɪrəl] (v.) （費用、價格等）急遽成長，急速上升
- The spiraling cost has squeeze profits and we can predict that the price will go up soon.
+ 急遽成長的成本壓縮利潤，我們可以預測價格會很快上漲。
+ The spiraling cost => 急遽成長的成本
+ squeeze profits => 壓縮利潤

2. _
* embody [ɪmˋbɑdɪ] (v.) 體現，使具體化
- The statue in bodies the spirit of the country.
+ 雕像在體現國家精神。
* embroider [ɪmˋbrɔɪdɚ] (v.) 刺繡
- I'm practicing how to embroider my name on the handkerchief.
+ 我正在練習如何在手帕上繡上我的名字。
+ handkerchief => 手帕

3. _
* compel [kəmˋpɛl] (v.) 激起，引發
- compel => 有激起的意思，不完全是負面的強迫之意。
- Her hard work has compelled everyone's trust and respect.
+ 她的辛勤工作激起每個人都信任和尊重。
* compatible [kəmˋpætəb!] (adj.) 能共處的；相容的
- 這個字很常用在軟體有無相容。(compatible/incompatible)
- Many couples fight a lot when they start to live together because they would soon find out that they are not compatible.
+ 許多情侶在他們開始生活在一起時會打很多，因為他們很快就會發現他們不兼容。
+ not compatible => 不合

4. _
* give back [] (ph.) 歸還、恢復
- return
- Did you give the money back to her?
+ 你把錢還給了她嗎？
+ give sth back to sb => give back sth to sb.
* give sth up as a bad job [] (ph.) 認為某事無望而放棄它
- 簡單說就是坐下去沒有未來就是會這樣說
- After taking the test for so many times he finally gave it up as a bad job.
+ 經過這麼多次考試後，他終於把它放棄了。

約在六歲時，我對聖誕老公公就已破滅了！

當時我雀躍的對著襪子裡的禮物笑，大姊卻對著我說：「傻妹妹，世界上根本沒有聖誕老公公！你看看垃圾桶裡的包裝袋是證據，這些禮物都是爸媽送的啦！」

註: 那時她很迷亞森羅蘋和福爾摩斯的小說...

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He's a spirit that brings joy and can be embodied in everyone and anyone. Santa is what compels you to want to spend time with family, to wanna give back to the community, to want to be and share your life with people that you love.

Lunar New Year is a symbol that brings reunion and can be embodied from generation to generation. It compels you to wanna give back to the community, to want to be and share your life with people that you care...

Team spirit(團隊精神) is critical to their performance.

*Spiral:螺旋型，或當動詞螺旋上升的、（價格）下跌或急升

*Downward spiral:想像反向螺旋就是價格不斷下降和惡化
*The downward spiral of house prices 房市價格的惡化、下跌

The spiralling cost（急升的成本） has squeezed profits(壓縮利潤) and we can predict that the price will go up soon.

The statue embodies (內嵌，體現)the spirit of the country.

I’m practicing how to embroider(刺繡) my name on the handkerchief（手帕）.

Her hard work has compelled(激發;正面引發) everyone’s trust and respect.

*His wayward(反覆無常的) decisions have compelled（逼迫） me to work overtime these days.

Many couples fight a lot when they start to live together because they would soon find out that they are not compatible(他們很快發現他們不相容/不合).

Give sth up as a bad job:因爲沒希望了而放棄某件事

After taking the test for so many times(經過那麼多次的考試）, he finally gave it up as a bad job.

His irresponsible speech caused outrage(憤怒) among the local community.

*The local community was outraged at his irresponsible remark.

*Outrageous : To describe something or someone that is shocking because they are unusual or strange

（因反常或怪異）嚇人的，驚人的，令人震驚的

*An outrageous housing prices超高的住房價

有彩蛋XDD聖誕節快樂!!!我愛大家<3

Thanks Priscilla and every friend~
Santa Claus is coming to town~

#叮叮噹～叮叮噹～錢聲多響亮
#Santa賜我今天還是有錢賺，有鈔數！人生多正面啊～

He is a spirit that brings joy to and can be embodied in everyone and anyone. Santa is what compels you to want to spend time with family, to wanna give back to the community, to want to be and share your life with people that you love.

今天看到一篇文章，引用自瞿欣怡:

"今天一直有人傳「聖誕快樂」的訊息來，我覺得厭煩又生氣，
可是人家是好意，我只好回「新年快樂」。這幾年我其實都這麼回。
晚上去買燒仙草時，跟舀仙草的老太太多要一包花生，結果她給我三包，
笑咪咪說：「今天是平安夜嘛。」我要離開時，她還是慈祥地笑著說：「平安夜快樂喔！」
我對聖誕節的討厭，似乎融化一點點了。
不是基督的錯，是扭曲基督經典教義的人的錯。
我才不要因為那些壞人，讓自己心生憤恨。
怨恨是很耗能量的，是讓人痛苦的。我們痛苦時，惡人正在歡慶。
陌生老太太的微笑，化解了我對聖誕節的憤怒。
她應該也不是教友，只是單純想在寒流來襲的夜晚，
一個大家都在歡慶的夜晚，祝福每一個人平安。
願陌生人平安快樂，才是愛。那深深的祝福與性別無關，與宗教無關。
如果真的神愛世人，那就保護同志們夜夜都是平安夜吧。"