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1、英美文化阅读1.海外文化:圣诞节袜子的传说It is said that there was a goodness man who went broke his domain . He lived a hard life and he had three daughters. The three daughters were being married but he didnt have money to buy dower for his daughters. On the happy Christmas Eve three girls went to bed early. They did
2、nt 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 mans daughters. They lived a happy life from then on. Christmas socks was origined by this.传说有个心地善良的没落贵族，生活非常艰难。三个女儿快要出嫁了，他为自己没有钱给
3、她们置办嫁妆而难过。喜庆的圣诞夜，三个姑娘早早地蜷在炕上睡觉了，剩下父亲在长吁短叹。圣诞老人决定帮助他们。他在他们家的烟囱里撒下了许多金子，落进姑娘们烤在火炉旁的长筒丝袜里。从此，他们过上了幸福而快乐的生活。圣诞节的长筒袜就这样产生的。2.圣诞老人的传说Chrismas Father was the descendant of a deity called Odin. Its also said that Chrismas Father comes from San Nichola, so he is also called St.Nicholas. He was the bishopof A
4、sia Minor city of Rafah and he was called a man of God after his death. He is an old man in red clothes and he wears a red hat. He has white mustache. He comes from the north on a blowmobileevery Chrismas Day. He went into peoples houses by the track and he put the presents into childrens socks. So
5、in western countries,parents put the gifts to their kids in kids socks and put them on the head of the bed on Chrismas Eve. On the second day, the first thing after kids wake up is to find the presents from Chrismas Fathers.圣诞老人为奥丁神后裔。 也传说称圣诞老人由圣尼古拉而来，所以圣诞老人也称St.Nicholas。据说他原是小亚细亚每拉城的主教，名叫圣尼古拉，死后被尊为
6、圣徒，是一位身穿红袍、头戴红帽的白胡子老头。每年圣诞节他驾着鹿拉的雪橇从北方而来，由烟囱进入各家，把圣诞礼物装在袜子里挂在孩子们的床头上或火炉前。所以，西方人过圣诞节时，父母把给孩子的圣诞礼物装在袜子里，圣诞夜时挂在孩子们的床头上。第二天，孩子们醒来后的第一件事就是在床头上寻找圣诞老人送来的礼物。3. 夏威夷印象 Hawaii For most of us, Hawaii begins to weave her spell（魅力）with some little glimmer（微光） of awareness. Golden beaches and golden people. Sun, s
7、and, sea, and surfAnd somewhere between the blue skies and the palm trees（棕榈树）were hooked（吸引）. The Hawaiian Islands are one of the most beautiful places on earth. The weather is friendly. The temperature ranges（在一定范围内变化）from 60-90 degrees all year long. Its a little warmer in summer, and a little co
8、oler in winter, but every day is a beach day for somebody. There are no strangers in Paradise. Perhaps the most beautiful part of Hawaii is the genuine（与生俱来的）warmth of people. We call it the spirit of Aloha（爱）. It has allowed a melting pot（熔炉）of cultures from all over the world to find common ground
9、（共同点）, and a new home, in this most gentle of places. 对于大部分人来说,那些星星点点的关于夏威夷的印象，足以让我们沉浸于她的魅力。金色的海滩金色的人们。阳光、沙子、大海、浪花在蓝天和棕榈树之间，我们流连忘返。 夏威夷岛是世界上最美丽的地方之一。这里天气晴朗，气温整年在华氏60-90度之间变化。夏天稍暖，冬天稍凉，但对于某些人来说每天都是晒太阳的好日子。 在这人间天堂没有陌生人。也许夏威夷人与生俱来地的热情才是这里真正魅力所在。我们称之为爱的精神。它是世界上最文明的地方之一，世界各地的文化都可以在这熔炉中找到共同点，生根发芽。4. Micha
10、el Joseph Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (Michael Joseph Jackson, on August 29, 1958 - June 25 of 2009), was the personages with symbolic pop culture in world, have extremely high popularity and enormous influence in the whole world, praised as the king (King of Pop) of the pop. He outstanding music
11、 versatile person, in write words, compose music, scene made, compose music, sing, dance, musical instrument play respect have remarkable achievement, he call as pop great immortal symbol most at the history jointly with cat king, unkempt person, the two after and its achievement has already been su
12、rmounted.The music video-tape of the single song Thriller is the first modern MV in the world, praised as greatest music video-tape in the history, He has the sales volume first of the special edition Thriller in the world, the sales volume has already been up to 110 million one 4 , its global sales
13、 volume of legal special edition has already exceeded 794 million, written into complete works of Guiness Book of Records . He is the first artist selling more than one hundred million records beyond U.S.A. in music history. 迈克尔约瑟夫杰克逊（Michael Joseph Jackson，1958年8月29日2009年6月25日），是世界流行文化象征性的人物，在全世界都拥
14、有着极高的知名度与巨大的影响力，被誉为流行音乐之王（King of Pop）。 他是出色的音乐全才，在作词，作曲，场景制作，编曲，演唱，舞蹈，乐器演奏方面都有着卓越的成就，他与猫王、披头士并称流行乐史上最伟大的不朽象征，而其成就已超越后两者。单曲Thriller的音乐录像带为全球第一支现代MV，被誉为史上“最伟大的音乐录像带”， 他拥有世界销量第一的专辑Thriller，销量已达1.1亿4张， 其正版专辑全球销量已超过7.94亿张，被载入“吉尼斯世界记录大全”。他是音乐史上第一位在美国以外卖出上亿张唱片的艺术家。5.为何快乐假期转瞬即逝? We have all experienced it
15、a holiday that whizzes by at the time, the Daily Mail reported. When we are on holiday, or doing something else new and exciting, the hours pass really quickly there and then. But all the new experiences lead to lots of new memories and when we look back at them, there are so many to go through, tha
16、t it feels as if we were gone for ages. In contrast, when we are at home or work and going about our normal routine, there are less interesting things and so fewer memories are laid down.This phenomenon has been called the holiday paradox by psychology lecturer Claudia Hammond. She said that our lives are normally so humdrum, that only six
