2016托福备考_2015圣诞节的由来和习俗 【中英对照_英语作文素材】

圣诞节（Christmas）又称耶诞节，译名为“基督弥撒”，西方传统节日，在每年12月25日。圣诞节吃苹果、带圣诞帽、寄送圣诞贺卡，参加圣诞派对，圣诞购物等成了中国人生活的一部分。更多托福写作素材, 托福词汇, 英语作文范文, 英语写作素材敬请关注上海新东方托福网。

“圣诞节”这个名称是“基督弥撒”的缩写。弥撒是教会的一种礼拜仪式。耶诞节是一个宗教节日。这一天是为了庆祝耶稣诞生。有特别的礼拜仪式在基督教教堂遍布世界各地。但是许多庆祝圣诞节的没有任何与宗教。交换礼物,寄圣诞卡普天同庆的圣诞节,在世界上。

　　耶稣诞生的故事:在拿撒勒、就是加利利的一座城。圣母名叫马利亚许配了约瑟。迎娶,她怀了孕的圣灵。她丈夫约瑟把他偷走了。虽然他考虑这些事情,加百列阿、有主的使者向他梦中显现,说他并不害怕采取玛丽为妻。和玛丽会生一个儿子。他必给他起名叫耶稣,因他要将他的百姓从他们的罪。

　　在耶稣基督出生,约瑟和马利亚来到Quirnius是治理亚兰人的王。所以去登记时,每个人都对自己的城市。约瑟也从加利利的拿撒勒城,往犹太去,大卫的城,名叫伯利恒,因为他的房子和大卫的血统,登记,他与玛丽订婚的妻子,她怀了孕。因此,他们在那里的时候,天已经完成她bedelivered。她等他生了头胎的儿子,并把他包在襁褓布料,放在马槽里,因为它们没有他们的地方。

　　并且,圣诞节www.3gmfw.cn是耶稣诞生的节日,在每年12月25日)。但是没人知道耶稣的生日。圣诞节已经成为最受欢迎的,在圣诞卡片出现在1846年的概念和欢乐的圣诞老人最早是在19世纪流行。

　　The name Christmas is short for "Christ's Mass". A Mass is a kind of Church service. Christmas is a religious festival. It is the day we celebrate as the birthday of Jesus. There are special christmas services in Christian churches all over the world. But many of the festivities of Christmas do not have anything to do with religion. Exchanging gifts and sending Christmas cards are the modern ways of celebrating the Christmas in the world.

　　The birth of Jesus had a story: In Nazareth, a city of Galilee. The virgin's name was Mary was betrothed to Joseph. Before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Joseph her husband was minded to put her away secretly. While he thought about these things, Gabriel, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and told him did not be afraid to take Mary as wife. And Mary will bring forth a Son, and he shall call his name, Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.

　　Before Jesus births, Joseph and Mary came to Quirnius was governing Syria. So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city. Joseph also went up out of Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and of the lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child. So it was that while they were there, the days were completed for her to bedelivered. And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped him in swaddling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

　　And that, Christmas is the feast of the nativity of Jesus, is on 25th, December every year. But nobody know the actual birthday of Jesus. And the Christmas has become popular when Christmas cards appeared in 1846 and the concept of a jolly Santa Claus was first made popular in nineteenth Century.

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