Name: 聖誕快樂學習英語習語和北美節日習俗 (MERRY CHRISTMAS! Learn English idioms & North American customs for the holidays)
Uploaded: 2025-07-23T18:26:24.000Z
Duration: 29 min 1 s

I want to discuss today some Christmas idioms that you may hear your English colleagues or friends using and might be confused by, but today you're going to become a master of merriment and learn about Christmas idioms.

今天我想討論一些聖誕成語，你可能會聽到你的英語同事或朋友使用這些成語，可能會感到困惑，但今天你將成為一個歡快的主人，瞭解聖誕成語。

Well, ho, ho, ho is said by a very famous guy in...

嗯，嗬，嗬，嗬是一個非常有名的人在...

In North America, we call him Santa Claus.

在北美，我們稱他為聖誕老人。

In England, they call him Father Christmas or you might say the British Cycle of Father Christmas.

在英國，人們稱他為聖誕老人，或者可以說是聖誕老人的英國循環。

He's known by many names, but with this gentleman who's a little bit rotund, sort of like myself right now, and wearing a special hat, come a few things, a few, you might say, activities that we do from trimming a tree, decking the halls, and you're like, what is he talking about?

他有很多名字，但這位先生有點胖，就像現在的我一樣，戴著一頂特別的帽子，講述了一些事情，一些你可以說是我們做的活動，從修剪樹木到裝飾大廳，你會想，他在說什麼？

這就是你們今天要學習的內容。

So, we're going to go to the board and what I'm going to do is I'm going to tell you what these things are and I also want to give you a little bit of history and that way you can appreciate some of the culture that you find in people who speak English or I wouldn't say European, but English speaking peoples.

所以，我們要去黑板上看看，我要做的就是告訴你們這些東西是什麼，我還想給你們講一點歷史，這樣你們就能體會到說英語的人身上的一些文化，或者我不會說是歐洲人，而是說英語的人身上的一些文化。

The first thing I want to look at is stocking stuffer.

It's really weird because stocking stuffer is almost nothing like it is today.

這真的很奇怪，因為現在的絲襪幾乎和以前沒什麼兩樣。

When you go to somebody's house, if they have a fireplace, you know, so here's some fire, yay for fire, they will have these giant socks here.

當你去別人家時，如果他們家有壁爐，你知道，這裡有火，對火讚不絕口，他們就會在這裡擺上這些巨大的襪子。

Well, in the old days, socks used to be referred to as stockings.

Not socks, but stockings, because you would put them on your feet and you would pull them, there we go, yeah, like that, all the way up, see?

不是襪子，是絲襪，因為你會把它們穿在腳上，然後拉起來，就這樣，對，就像這樣，一直往上拉，看到了嗎？

好吧，我已經老得不能再老了。

好吧，他們穿的是長筒襪，不是襪子。

Now, stocking stuffer is a little present.

For instance, if my watch is coming here, if I got something this small and I put it inside the stocking, it's very small.

例如，如果我的手錶在這裡，如果我有這麼小的東西，我把它放在襪子裡，它就非常小了。

Usually, stocking stuffers are not big and not expensive, but there is an interesting story that goes with a stocking stuffer.

一般來說，絲襪塞並不大，也不昂貴，但絲襪塞卻有一個有趣的故事。

A long time ago in Germany, where this originates from, Germany, there's a story about three young girls, or an old...

很久以前，在這個故事的發源地德國，有一個關於三個年輕女孩的故事，或者說是一個老...

A man who had three daughters, and he really wanted his daughters to marry and be happy, but he had no money to give them to help them get married.

一個男人有三個女兒，他非常希望女兒們能嫁得幸福，但他沒有錢給她們，幫助她們結婚。

So, he prayed and he prayed, and Santa Claus...

於是，他不停地祈禱，聖誕老人...

I really should draw a picture of him, but I'm sure there'll be a picture of him right there.

我真應該給他畫張像，不過我相信那裡肯定會有他的照片。

Santa Claus overheard this man talking about, I cannot get someone for my daughters to marry them, so what I want to do, I don't know what I'm going to do.

聖誕老人無意中聽到這個人在說，我不能為我的女兒們找一個人結婚，所以我想做什麼，我不知道我要做什麼。

And Santa Claus knew that this man did not accept charity.

聖誕老人知道，這個人不接受施捨。

In other words, this man would not take anything for free, he always wanted to work for it.

換句話說，這個人不會白要任何東西，他總是希望通過自己的努力來獲得。

So, he decided instead of giving presents like he normally did, he was going to throw three bags of gold down the chimney one night so the man could receive them, and each bag would be for the daughters.

於是，他決定不再像往常那樣送禮物，而是在一天晚上從煙囪裡扔下三袋金子，讓那個人收到，每袋都是給女兒們的。

The daughters were unaware of this, and they were wearing their...

女兒們並不知道這一點，她們穿著...

Remember we talked about stockings, these things?

They put their stockings to dry at night by the fireplace because they had washed them.

他們晚上把絲襪放在壁爐邊晾乾，因為他們已經洗過絲襪了。

So, of course, when they woke up in the morning, their stockings, the three of them, were filled with gold.

當然，當他們早上醒來時，他們三個人的長襪裡都裝滿了金子。

And that's why you find a lot of times when people have stockings, they get chocolate coins that are covered in gold inside their stockings.

這就是為什麼很多時候人們會在襪子裡塞滿金幣巧克力的原因。

And they're like, I know some things you do.

他們會說，我知道你做的一些事情。

So, the first one I talked about is the stocking stuffer.

Little presents that go inside the stockings that used to be on fireplaces, but maybe if it's not by a fireplace now, you'll find them on the wall or by people's stairs, and they'll have their names on it, and people will put chocolate inside of it, or markers or pens or something small that somebody might have fun with, but not expensive.

人們會在襪子裡放巧克力、記號筆、鋼筆或一些小東西，這些東西可能會讓人覺得有趣，但並不昂貴。

The second one I want to talk about is to trim the tree.

我要談的第二個問題是修剪樹木。

If you ask any North American about trimming the tree, or English person for that matter, they will tell you trimming the tree is putting, as you can see, I have some balls up here, and this would be called tinsel.

如果你問任何一個北美人或英國人關於修剪樹木的問題，他們都會告訴你，修剪樹木就是在樹上放一些東西，正如你所看到的，我在這裡放了一些球，這就是所謂的彩條。

They would say putting balls and tinsel on the tree to make it look very nice.

他們會說，在樹上掛上綵球和綵帶會讓樹看起來非常漂亮。

好吧，那麼，這是從哪裡來的呢？

Trimming the tree came from, actually, sailors.

Nautical sailors a long time ago, and it was to be trim and in fighting shape, which meant to get rid of the fat, not be fat, but be slim and muscular and fighting shape, to be trim, to cut.

很早以前的航海家們就說過，要修身，要有戰鬥力，這意味著要去掉脂肪，不是肥胖，而是要苗條，要有肌肉和戰鬥力，要修身，要削減。

I know, you're very smart, and you're saying to me, how does trim a tree, a sailor, have anything to do with each other?

我知道，你很聰明，你會對我說，修剪一棵樹和一個水手有什麼關係？

A long time ago, most people didn't have artificial trees.

很久以前，大多數人還沒有人造樹。

In fact, when I was a child, most of the trees that I knew were real.

事實上，在我小時候，我認識的大多數樹都是真的。

People would go out and actually cut down a tree and put it inside their house.

人們會出去砍一棵樹，然後把它放在家裡。

Yes, you heard me right, you new people, you new kids.

是的，你們沒聽錯，就是你們這些新人，你們這些新來的孩子。

We'd actually go outside, cut it, pick it up, carry it into the house, put it in.

實際上，我們會走到外面，把它剪下來，撿起來，搬進屋裡，放進去。

And really far back, they actually used to put candles, yes.

在很久以前，他們還真的放過蠟燭，是的。

They used to put fire in the tree in the house.

他們經常在房子裡的樹上點火。

Hey, I don't know how humanity has made it this long, but you know, whatever.

嘿，我不知道人類是怎麼活到現在的，但你知道，管它呢。

So, trimming the tree was, when you had the tree, sometimes there would be an extra branch sticking out that could poke you or hurt you, so you would cut this off to make the tree perfect to put in your house.

是以，修剪樹枝就是，當你有一棵樹時，有時會有多餘的樹枝伸出來，可能會戳到你或傷害到你，所以你會把它剪掉，讓這棵樹完美地安放在你的房子裡。

修剪，因為修剪實際上是一個動詞。

意思是砍掉多餘或多餘的部分。

I'll give you another little thing that you're going to like a lot as well.

我再給你一件小東西，你也會非常喜歡的。

Sometimes you'll hear people say, I want a turkey dinner with all the trimmings.

有時你會聽到有人說，我想吃一頓火雞大餐，還有所有的配菜。

No, they're not asking for the pieces of the tree that fell down.

不，他們不是要那棵倒下的樹的碎片。

So, when you get turkey dinner, you get turkey, and then you get potatoes.

所以，當你吃火雞大餐時，你會吃到火雞，然後你會吃到洋芋。

Okay, that's like a normal meal, and maybe some carrots.

好吧，這就像一頓正常的飯菜，也許還有些胡蘿蔔。

With the trimmings, you're going to get cranberry sauce, gravy, stuffing, and some other stuff that people like to eat that I think is disgusting, but whatever, I don't know.

有了這些配料，你就會得到紅莓醬、肉汁、餡料，還有一些人們喜歡吃的東西，我覺得這些東西很噁心，但不管怎樣，我不知道。

But all the trimming means all the extra.

但所有的修剪都意味著所有的額外費用。

In fact, people even say outside, they'll go, I want all the trimmings.

事實上，人們甚至會在外面說，我想要所有的裝飾品。

When you get a haircut and you say, I just want to trim, they're only going to cut a little bit of hair.

當你理髮時，你說，我只想修剪一下，他們只會剪掉一點點頭髮。

Not only did you learn an idiom, you've learned about verbs.

你不僅學到了一個成語，還了解了動詞。

So, trim the tree means to decorate the tree, but before that, it meant to cut the tree properly, so you could decorate the tree.

是以，"修剪樹木 "的意思是裝飾樹木，但在此之前，"修剪樹木 "的意思是正確地砍伐樹木，以便裝飾樹木。

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