Christmas是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 圣诞节，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A Christmas CarolBy Charles DickensDownload free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook.
-- Once upon a time of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
-- 'Christmas a humbug, uncle!'
-- Merry Christmas!Out upon merry Christmas!What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?
-- returned the uncle sternly, 'keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After some men-tal debating of the point, he came to the conclusion that it would be as well to get all the preliminaries done with, and they could then arrange at their leisure whether he should give her his hand a week or two before Michaelmas Term, or in the little Christmas vacation between it and Hilary.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When Christmas came, quite young trees were cut down: trees which often were not even as large or of the same age as this Fir Tree, who could never rest, but always wanted to be off.
-- 'That is still better than to cross the sea!What a longing do I suffer!Were Christmas but come!I am now tall, and my branches spread like the others that were carried off last year!Oh!were I but already on the cart!Were I in the warm room with all the splendor and magnificence!Yes; then something better, something still grander, will surely follow, or wherefore should they thus ornament me?
-- and towards Christmas he was one of the first that was cut down.
-- In the court-yard some of the merry children were play-ing who had danced at Christmas round the Fir Tree, and were so glad at the sight of him.
-- 'Only look what is still on the ugly old Christmas tree!'
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such was the hour before Christmas vacation when Roscoe Geake rose to glory.
-- III Through the storm of his Christmas examinations, Martin had an intensified need of Leora.
-- Then, I should think there should be no objection to market production, but in ve-ry small quantities and in fair competition with others, not under patents, as if this was a dinglebat toy for the Christmas tradings!"
-- One out of every three persons above the age of sixty has spent a winter in California, and among them are the champion horseshoe pitcher of Pasadena and the woman who presented the turkey which Miss Mary Pickford, the cinema princess, enjoyed at her Christmas dinner in 1912.
-- He could not comprehend that he was really going to a place of palm trees and brown faces and languid Christmas Eves.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Only once at Christmas she sent them all presents of pies and rolls.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her sister, though comparatively but little removed by matrimony, being settled in London, only sixteen miles off, was much beyond her daily reach; and many a long October 6 Emmaand November evening must be struggled through at Hart-field, before Christmas brought the next visit from Isabella and her husband, and their little children, to fill the house, and give her pleasant society again.
-- Emma shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings John and Isabella.
-- 'Christmas weather,' observed Mr. Elton.
-- At Christmas ev-ery body invites their friends about them, and people think little of even the worst weather.
-- No intercourse with Harriet possible but by note; no church for her on Sunday any more than on Christmas Day; and no need to find excuses for Mr. Elton's absenting himself.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No Christmas robin detained by a window-pane ever pulsed as did Bathsheba now.
-- When the weeks intervening between the night of this conversation and Christmas day began perceptibly to diminish, her anxiety and perplexity increased.
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