It is said that there was a goodness man went broke his domain. He lived a hardlife and he has three daughters. The three daughters were being married but he didn‘t have money to buy dower for his daughters. On the happy Chrismas Eve three girls went to bed early. They didn‘t know that their father was so worried. At last the Chrismas father decided to help them . He besprinkled gold through the stack and the gold fell into the socks of the man‘s daughters. They lived a happy life from then on… Chrismas socks was origined by this.
趣味英语――圣诞老人
圣诞老人
词典
Santa Claus
中文语义：
圣诞老人 [shèng dàn lǎo rén]
[Santa Claus] 基督教传说中在圣诞节晚上到各家给儿童送礼物的老人。西方国家有在圣诞节夜晚扮圣诞老人给儿童送礼物的风俗
中英互译：
1.圣诞老人穿上了他的红色夹克和红色帽子。
Santa puts on his red jacket and his red hat.
2.荷兰人有一套自己的风俗，孩子们会将鞋子放在外面，圣诞老人到来时便会在里面装满礼品。
The Dutch developed a custom by which children put out shoes which Saint Nicholas would fill with gifts when he came visiting.
3.19世纪，圣诞老人的习俗似乎又传回了欧洲。
In the 19th century, the Santa Claus tradition seems to have been transplanted back to Europe
4.那我不睡觉了。我要等着圣诞老人来。
I am going to wait for father christmas.
5.你和圣诞老人说了什么?
What do you say to santa's dwarves?
6.我拿着自童年起就陪伴我的圣诞老人，谢谢你和我做了将近50年的朋友。
I held the Santa from my childhood. Thanks for being my friend for almost fifty years.
7.圣诞前夜，我们每个人都从圣诞老人那儿得到了一份礼物。
On the Christmas eve, everyone of us got a gift from father christmas.
8.亲爱的圣诞老人，我知道您很可爱，但是我有一种爱的感觉。
Dear santa, I know that you are cute, but I have a feeling of love!
9.圣诞.节就要到了，他想打扮成圣诞老人。
Christmas is coming He wants to Father Christmas.
10.我们把爷爷化装成圣诞老人。
We get grandfather up as father christmas.
圣诞老人的由来英语
“American Origins: (As sent to me by Brian Dodd)Quote from ENCARTA 95
The American version of the Santa Claus figure received its inspiration and its name from the Dutch legend of Sinter Klaas, brought by settlers to New York in the 17th century。
As early as 1773 the name appeared in the American press as ”St. A Claus,“
but it was the popular author Washington Irving who gave Americans their first detailed information about the Dutch version of Saint Nicholas. In his History of New York, published in 1809 under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker, Irving described the arrival of the saint on horseback (unaccompanied by Black Peter) each Eve of Saint Nicholas。
This Dutch-American Saint Nick achieved his fully Americanized form in 1823 in the poem A Visit From Saint Nicholas more commonly known as The Night Before Christmas by writer Clement Clarke Moore. Moore included such details as the names of the reindeer; Santa Claus's laughs, winks, and nods; and the method by which Saint Nicholas, referred to as an elf, returns up the chimney. (Moore's phrase ”lays his finger aside of his nose“ was drawn directly from Irving's 1809 description。)
The American image of Santa Claus was further elaborated by illustrator Thomas Nast, who depicted a rotund Santa for Christmas issues of Harper's magazine from the 1860s to the 1880s. Nast added such details as Santa's workshop at the North Pole and Santa's list of the good and bad children of the world. A human-sized version of Santa Claus, rather than the elf of Moore's poem, was depicted in a series of illustrations for Coca-Cola advertisements introduced in 1931 that introduced and made the red Santa Suits an icon. In modern versions of the Santa Claus legend, only his toy-shop workers are elves. Rudolph, the ninth reindeer, with a red and shiny nose, was invented in 1939 by an advertising writer for the Montgomery Ward Company.
In looking for the historical roots of Santa Claus, one must go very deep in the past. One discovers that Santa Claus as we know him is a combination of many different legends and mythical creatures.
The basis for the Christian-era Santa Claus is Bishop Nicholas of Smyrna (Izmir), in what is now Turkey. Nicholas lived in the 4th century A.D. He was very rich, generous, and loving toward children. Often he gave joy to poor children by throwing gifts in through their windows.
The Orthodox Church later raised St. Nicholas, miracle worker, to a position of great esteem. It was in his honor that Russia's oldest church, for example, was built. For its part, the Roman Catholic Church honored Nicholas as one who helped children and the poor. St. Nicholas became the patron saint of children and seafarers. His name day is December 6th.
In the Protestant areas of central and northern Germany, St. Nicholas later became known as der Weinachtsmann. In England he came to be called Father Christmas. St. Nicholas made his way to the United States with Dutch immigrants, and began to be referred to as Santa Claus.
In North American poetry and illustrations, Santa Claus, in his white beard, red jacket and pompom-topped cap, would sally forth on the night before Christmas in his sleigh, pulled by eight reindeer, and climb down chimneys to leave his gifts in stockings children set out on the fireplace's mantelpiece.
Children naturally wanted to know where Santa Claus actually came from. Where did he live when he wasn't delivering presents? Those questions gave rise to the legend that Santa Claus lived at the North Pole, where his Christmas-gift workshop was also located.
In 1925, since grazing reindeer would not be possible at the North Pole, newspapers revealed that Santa Claus in fact lived in Finnish Lapland. ”Uncle Markus“, Markus Rautio, who compared the popular ”Children's hour“ on Finnish public radio, revealed the great secret for the first time in 1927: Santa Claus lives on Lapland's Korvatunturi - ”Ear Fell"
The fell, which is situated directly on Finland's eastern frontier, somewhat resembles a hare's ears - which are in fact Santa Claus's ears, with which he listens to hear if the world's children are being nice. Santa has the assistance of a busy group of elves, who have quite their own history in Scandinanvian legend.
Over the centuries, customs from different parts of the Northern Hemisphere thus came together and created the whole world's Santa Claus - the ageless, timeless, deathless white-bearded and red suited man who gives out gifts on Christmas and always returns to Korvatunturi in Finnish Lapland.
Since the 1950s, Santa has happily sojourned at Napapiiri, near Rovaniemi, at times other than Christmas, to meet children and the young at heart. By 1985 his visits to Napapiiri had become so regular that he established his own Santa Claus Office there. He comes there every day of the year to hear what children want for Christmas and to talk with children who have arrived from around the world. Santa Claus Village is also the location of Santa's main Post Office, which receives children's letters from the four corners of the world.
圣诞老人英语小作文
On the night before Christmas, all across the world, millions of children will be tucked in their beds while visions of sugarplums dance in their heads. When they awake they will check their stockings to see if Santa Claus has come.
Santa Claus has become the most beloved of Christmas symbols and traditions. The image of the jolly old elf flying in a sleigh pulled by reindeers and leaving toys and gifts for every child is know worldwide.
Just like the season of Christmas, the history of the origins of Santa Claus is influenced by the customs and cultures of many countries, beginning in Asia Minor sometime around the 4th century AD. It was here that Bishop Nicholas became renowned for his exceptional generosity, especially to the very young. Many years later he became known as Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children.
As time went on, adults began to dress in the manner of Saint Nicholas, dressed in Bishops vestments and carrying a staff., to re-enact the kindness of the saint. They went from house to house, asking if the children who lived there had been well behaved. In response to these visits, the children left their shoes outside the doors of their houses so that next morning they might find them filled with sweets and trinkets.
An Anglo-Saxon version eventually evolved and was known as Father Christmas. His character was a mixture of the Saint Nicholas and earthly perceptions of the gods Thor and Saturn. He wore robes decorated with ivy and holly and carried a switch to threaten unruly children, as well as a bag of toys to reward the well behaved.
世界上有圣诞老人吗？这是曾经小小的我的一个极大的疑惑，有时甚至逢人就问这个问题，得到的答案各种各样，完全得不到统一。但是，现在的我却可以很确定地说：“世界上绝对有圣诞老人。”
当然，得到这个答案是需要一定过程的，有一段时间，我可以说是完全否定圣诞老人的存在。那是在我知道所谓的圣诞礼物，不过是父母在晚上偷偷把礼物放在孩子的长筒袜子里才出现的之后，就开始觉得圣诞老人不过是一个哄骗小孩的把戏，不久之后我就对圣诞节这种东西不感兴趣了，以前买来的小圣诞树也给扔掉了。
这种感觉随着时间一点一点地消逝掉了，到了六年级的时候，一帮同学们在圣诞节前一个星期商量着要互赠圣诞礼物，把我也拉了过去。我很高兴地答应了，接着很快就开始为她们着手准备起来，就凭自己平时对她们的了解，一一对应的准备好了礼物，同时也期待着自己将收到怎样的惊喜。
过了平安夜，圣诞节总算是到了，一大早就将自己准备的礼物放在她们每个人的抽屉里，悄悄期待同学们的反应。把自己收到的礼物收好放在书包里，回家后一一拆开，各式各样的惊喜不停地出现在我面前。它们虽然不是什么极其贵重的物品，却代表了同学们重重的情谊，以至于这些礼物在毕业后依然静静地待在我的书桌上。
这些礼物是圣诞老人给的吗？客观来讲——当然不是，它们虽然有的放在大礼盒里，有的放在小长袜里，但那是同学们给的，明显不是圣诞老人。但是，你却又可以说是圣诞老人给的，因为，能主动送出这些礼物的人，心中肯定充满了真诚、信赖、友情、爱心等一切美好的、闪闪发光的东西，她们难道不就是彼此的圣诞老人吗？
在世上有些东西是看不见的，但却不代表它不存在。要是世界上没有圣诞老人，孩子们就要失去一个乐趣、一个美好的希望，这是多么令人悲哀啊！不管这个圣诞老人是住在天上，骑着驯鹿的，还是住在心里，怀中抱着爱的，他们都是圣诞老人，他们都是那样美好的东西啊。其实圣诞老人就活在我们的心中，活在我们的身边。
大家都知道白胡子白头发的圣诞老人吧？
你们知道圣诞老人的故乡在哪里吗？圣诞老人住在芬兰和俄罗斯的交界处，芬兰人把一个村名字取名叫圣诞老人村。圣诞老人就住在圣诞老人村里头，但是你刚进入圣诞老人村的时候迎接你的不是真正的圣诞老人，而是由专人打扮的圣诞老人。
圣诞老人可不和我们一样是住在一个一个的套房里面，而它是住在圣诞老人村的一个小花园里。那里的任何一物都是用木头做的，他的房子是一幢木房子，篱笆也是木头做的，还有他的办公室也是木头做的。他穿着红色的大外套，带着一顶红色的圣诞帽他和他的圣诞太太都爱吃圣诞节蛋糕，爱喝热巧克力。
圣诞老人有一个非常完美的家，花园附近有一个圣诞老人超市（不是我编的），超市里有一些圣诞树、圣诞卡片、圣诞帽、圣诞挂钟还有圣诞老爷爷和罕见的圣诞太太以及孩子们需要的圣诞袜。圣诞超市真是个有趣而新奇的地方。
圣诞老人一年只工作一次，但他那一天是很忙的。他要给全世界的每一个孩子礼物。不管是贫穷的孩子还是富裕的孩子礼物他都给。他都把礼物放在孩子们准备好了的圣诞袜里面或者是枕头底下。
那你们知道圣诞袜的来历吗？
从前，有一个富裕的家庭，他们有三个女儿。不知什么时候，她们的母亲因病重而去世了。又因为他们做过很多试验都没有成功，所以前就逐渐变少了，所以他们只好搬到一个农舍里去住。
不知道是什么时候，他的女儿们快要出嫁了。但是他的钱不够买嫁妆。他的女儿们正好在圣诞节的那天把几条长袜挂在火炉边烤，这是被一个牧师看到了。于是，他在他们家的人都睡着了之后把几代金币从烟囱里丢了进了那几条长袜里。
第二天早上，她们发现长袜里装着满满的金币，那些前已经足够买嫁妆了。她们出嫁后过上了幸福、快乐的生活。