假期的一件事英语作文带翻译最新20篇

In my heart, my father is a great man, he wakes up early and goes to work,

in the event, he goes home late. He is working so hard, all he does is for the

family and to support my education. Once I ask him if he is tired, he smiles and

says that I am his sweet burden. I feel so moved, his love for me is so

deep.

在我心里，我的爸爸是个伟大的人，他很早就起来上班，在晚上，他很晚才回家。他一直都很努力工作，他所做的一切都是为了家庭和支持我的教育。曾经我问他是否感到很累，他对我微笑，说我是他甜蜜的负担。我很感动，他对我的爱是如此的深。

may first international labor day w ǔ y ī guójìláo dòng jiéalso calls " may day " decides in every year on may 1. it isthe world not produces team level, working peoples common holiday. labor s day is on may 1st. labor s day is an internationalday for workers. working is glorious, and we should respect workers.

On Christmas morning， the children wake up very early. Some even turn on the light at two o‘clock， and most of them are awake by six o’clock although it is not light in England for another hour or two at this time of the year.

Children look for their presents ， and the young ones play while the dinner is prepared. At about one o‘clock in the afternoon， the Christmas dinner is brought in . The turkey or chicken is quickly eaten . Children search in their Christmas pudding for new coins which are hidden in it . The rest of the day is full of games and eating until the happiest of all Christmas hollidays comes to an end.

在圣诞节的早晨，孩子们很早就起床。有些人甚至在两点钟的时候开灯，但大多数人还是在六点钟醒的，虽然在英国这个时间就算再过一两个小时也还没有天亮。

在准备晚宴的时候，孩子寻找自己的礼物，年轻的玩耍。在下午约一点钟的时候，圣诞晚餐开始。火鸡或鸡肉被迅速吃掉。孩子们在他们的圣诞布丁寻找哪个隐藏了新币。在一天剩下的时间都充满了游戏和吃的，直到最幸福的各个圣诞假期结束。

It was sunny today. I was excited. I got up at a quarter to seven. I made a

appointment to meet at nine o’clock. After I had my breakfast, I went to the

Wanjia Market . It was hot outside. When I arrived, my friends didn’t arrive. I

waited for him in front of the KFC’s door. I haven’t seen them for a year. And

in a year, we didn’t come into contact with others frequently. About ten minutes

left, my friends arrived one by one. After we greeted,we went to play basketball

in Liwan Gymnasium. The match last for tow hours.Oh!I fill very happy today!

这是今天阳光明媚。我很兴奋。我得到了在六时四十五分。我的任命，以满足九点钟。之后，我有我的早餐，我去了万家市场。这是热外面。当我到达，我的朋友们并没有达成。我等待着他前面的肯德基的大门。我还没有看到他们为一年。并在一年内，我们没有接触到其他人频繁。约10分钟离开，我的朋友们来到一个又一个。在我们迎接，我们去打球荔湾体育馆。这场比赛最后的拖车小时.Oh

，我非常高兴今天填补!

Halloween

Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year. It means "holy evening," and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints Day. However, it is not really a church holiday, it is a holiday for children mainly.

Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside. It looks as if there were a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack-o-lanterns, which means "Jack of the lantern".

The children also put on strange masks and frightening costumes every Halloween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters. Then they carry boxes or bags from house to house. Every time they come to a new house, they say,"Trick or treat! Money or eat!" The grown-ups put treat-money or candy in their bags.

Not only children, but most grown-ups also love Halloween and Halloween parties because on this day,they can disguise themselves as personages or ghost as their imaginations will lead them. This bring them the satisfaction of being young.

万圣节前夕

万圣节前夕是美国人年年都会庆祝的秋季节日。它的意思是“神圣的夜晚”，在每年的10月31日，也就是万圣节前夜。但实际上这不是一个真正的宗教节日，而主要是孩子们的节日。

每年秋天蔬菜成熟可以食用的时候，孩子们就会挑出大个儿的橙色南瓜。然后在南瓜上刻上一张脸，把一根点燃的蜡烛放在里面。看起来就好像有人在向南瓜外面张望。这些灯就叫做“iack-o-lantems”，意思也就是“杰克的灯”。

每年万圣节前夕孩子们还戴上奇怪的面具，穿上吓人的服装。有些孩子把脸刷成怪物。然后他们拿着盒子或袋子挨家挨户串门。每来到一个新房子他们就说：“不款待就捣乱!给钱还是吃的!”大人们就会把用来招待的钱或糖放在他们的袋子里了。

不仅孩子，许多成年人也喜欢万圣节前夕和万圣节前夕晚会。因为这一天他们可以根据自己的想象把自己装扮成名流或幽灵。这会带给他们年轻的快感。

Dear David,

Im glad youll come to Beijing to learn Chinese. Chinese is very useful, and many foreigners are learning it now. Its difficult for you because its quite different from English. You have to remember as many Chinese words as possible. Its also important to do some reading and writing. You can watch TV and listen to the radio to practise your listening. Do your best to talk with people in Chinese. You can learn Chinese not only from books but also from people around you. If you have any questions, please ask me. Im sure youll learn Chinese well.

Hope to see you soon in Beijing.

Yours,

Wang Ming

【翻译】

亲爱的大卫，

我很高兴你会来北京学习中文。中国是非常有益的，许多外国人正在学习，现在。这很难为你，因为它是相当的英语不同。你要记住尽可能多的中国话。同样重要的是做一些阅读和写作。你可以看电视，听广播练习你的听力。你最好不要谈论与中国人民。你可以学习汉语，不仅从书本上，而且从你周围的人。如果您有任何问题，请问我。我敢肯定你会学好中文。

希望能尽快看到你在北京。

此致，

王明

[高考满分英语作文附翻译

There are some pandas in the zoo. They look like a bear but they are not a bear. They live in China.

They have a small tail and fat body. They are black and white. They’re very clumsy but they can climb trees. They like to eat bamboo very much.

Look! The baby panda is under the mother panda they are sleeping. They look very lovely.

Pandas are my favourite animals.

动物园里有一些熊猫。他们看起来像熊，但他们不是熊他们生活在中国。

他们有一个小尾巴和胖胖的身体，它们是黑白相间的，他们很笨拙，但他们能爬树，他们非常喜欢吃竹子。

看!熊猫宝宝在熊猫妈妈的下面，他们正在睡觉。他们看起来很可爱。

熊猫是我最喜欢的动物。

My best friend is Jim. He is a cool boy. He has curly blond hair, big

eyes and a small mouth. He likes to eat strawberries and bananas, and he loves

sports. He often plays basketball in the school playground. He watches sports

every night. He has good manners and studies well, so everyone likes to make

friends with

him.

我最好的朋友是吉姆，他是一个很酷的男孩。他有一头金黄的卷发，大大的眼睛和小小的嘴巴。他喜欢吃草莓和香蕉，并且他十分热爱运动，他经常在学校的操场打篮球，每天晚上他都会看体育节目。他有礼貌，学习好，因此大家都喜欢和他做朋友。

This morning, my father took me to school by bike. I sat at the back of the bike, eating a banana. After I ate it up, I threw the skin onto the street randomly.

今天早晨，爸爸骑车带我去上学。我坐在后车座上，吃着香蕉。吃完后，我顺手将香蕉皮扔到了街上。

No sooner had I done this than I realized that I had done something bad to our environment. And maybe someone would step on it and tumble over. I must pick it up. Thinking of these, I asked father to stop. I jumped off the bike and ran back to pick up the banana skin and threw it into a roadside dustbin. Seeing this, father praised me and I felt very happy.

我马上意识到我的所作所为破坏了我们的环境，或许有人会踩在上面而跌倒，我必须把它拾起来。想到这些，我让爸爸停车。我跳下自行车，跑回去拾起香蕉皮，并扔到了路边的垃圾箱里。看到这些，爸爸表扬了我。我感到很高兴。

In future I will protect the surroundings more consciously and think more about others.

将来我要更自觉地保护周围的环境，更多地为他人着想。

I have a good winner vacation!

In my winner vacation ,I often did my homework, and helped my mother clean rooms.

I sometimes went shopping with my friends . We had a good time! I also watched TV and played computer games. During Spring Festival ,I visited my grandparents.

I was very happy ,I think my winner vacation was very interesting!

今天我到下面院子里玩的时候，看见天上的云很像棉花糖，我就想飞上天吃云，可我没有飞行器，飞不了啊，飞机也不行，主要是我不知道云会不会一站在上面就掉到地上?我要登天是不太可能的。长大以后我要当科学家，做一艘火箭飞上天，去试一下云朵是什么味道。

Today, when I went to play in the yard below, I saw that the clouds in the

sky were like marshmallows. I wanted to fly to the sky and eat the clouds. But I

didnt have an aircraft. I couldnt fly. I couldnt fly either. I didnt know if

the cloud would fall to the ground as soon as I stood on it. Its impossible for

me to go to the sky. When I grow up, I want to be a scientist. I want to be a

rocket and fly to the sky. I want to try the taste of

clouds.

In the firecrackers, ushered in the traditional festival - the Lantern Festival in China.

The Lantern Festival, of course, in the morning should eat a bowl of steaming hot dumplings. Dumplings made with sticky dough rub, powder white, thin, on the pot steamed for a while. Cooked dumplings, like a lovely baby. A bite, very hot hot black sesame roll like water flowing into the lungs and mouth is filled with thick sesame flavor, emotions and thoughts on the tip of the tongue with that kind of sweet honey and taste, represents a HeHeMuMu life.

In the evening, I go play outside, streets are decorated, the most beautiful is the moat. City moat lights, thronged. I wander in the light of the world, watch carefully, lifelike gold fish lamp, image lifelike lotus lamp, of primitive simplicity and elegant palace lantern, all kinds of lights elegant, exquisite decoration, fine workmanship, really make a person dazzling, breathtaking. In a calm river, which reflects the light shadow, as if under the river also lit a lamp. There was a slight breeze, surface ripples, light shadow followed the wobbly.

"Good!" Attracted by a burst of cheers me, turned out to be nearby someone guess riddles. I also want to guess in the past, but we had too many people, formed a "person" wall, enclosed as the stage of guess riddles. I stand outside the people wall, listening to the sounds of laughter from inside. The host began to say lantern riddle: "a man a mouth (guess a word)." I thought to myself: what is that? Im thinking of, an old man raised his hand, replied: "is a or word." The host and smiling said: "congratulations to you, right." The words sound just fell and around there was a thunderous applause.

The Lantern Festival, the boisterous festival, in the laughter of people in the end.

在爆竹声中，迎来了我国的传统节日——元宵节。

元宵节，早晨起床当然应该吃一碗热气腾腾的汤圆。汤圆用黏黏的面团搓成，有大有小，有粉有白，放在锅里蒸上一会儿。煮好的汤圆，像一个个可爱的胖娃娃。咬一口，烫烫的黑芝麻像流水般滚入心脾，嘴巴里充满了浓浓的芝麻味，舌尖上留着那种甜蜜蜜的情思和味道，代表着一家和和睦睦的生活。

晚上，我到外边去玩，大街小巷都张灯结彩，最美的还要数护城河边了。护城河边灯光辉煌，人声鼎沸。我漫游在这灯的世界，细细观赏，栩栩如生的金鱼灯，形象逼真的莲花灯，古朴典雅的宫灯——各式各样的彩灯造型优美，装饰考究，做工精细，真让人眼花缭乱，美不胜收。在平静的河面上，映照出了灯的影子，好像河的底下也点着一盏似的。一阵微风拂过，河面上微波荡漾，灯的影子也跟着摇摇晃晃了。

“好!”一阵喝彩声吸引住了我，原来是不远处有人在猜灯谜。我也想过去猜猜，可无奈人太多，形成了一堵‘人’墙，把猜灯谜的舞台围得水泄不通。我站在‘人’墙外，听着里面传来的阵阵欢笑声。主持人开始说灯谜了：“一人一张嘴(猜一字)。”我心想：那是什么呢?我正想着，一位老爷爷举起了手，回答道：“是个‘合’字。”主持人笑眯眯地说：“恭喜您，答对了。”话音刚落，周围就响起了一阵雷鸣般的掌声。

元宵节，这个热闹非凡的节日，在人们的欢笑声中结束。

Today, I saw a roadside beggar. He is a middle-aged man, only two arms, and no legs. His arms come the hard ground prowling, also holding the hand of a begging bowl. Really pathetic, I can not help giving him 10 yuan. If we sacrificed our love, the world will be brighter.

今天，我在路边看到了一个乞丐．他是一个中年男子，只有两只胳膊，双腿都没有了．他用胳膊撑着地面艰难地潜行，手中还拿着一个乞讨用的碗．真的很可怜，我不由自主地给了他十块钱．如果我们多献出我们的爱情，世界将更美好。

Nothing is difficult if you put your heart into it. Nothing is easy if you

don’t try your best.

We often hear people say, “Never give up.” A person who believes in these

words will keep trying to pursue his goal no matter how many times he fails. In

my opinion, the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have.

Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.

One reason is that if we give up easily, we will achieve nothing. It is not

unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not

feel discouraged. Besides, if we always give up when fail happens, we will can

not develop new skills. Finally, we should never give up because as we work to

reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed

in other areas of our lives.

Probably the greatest example of persistence is Abraham Lincoln. Born into

poverty, Lincoln was faced with defeat throughout his life. He lost eight

elections, twice failed in business and suffered a nervous breakdown. He could

have quit many times - but he didnt and because he didnt quit, he became one

of the greatest presidents in the history of America.

Lincoln was a champion For the reason that ---he ,never gave up.

In short, no matter you succeed or not, you can learn something, no matter

what we learn will help us to become more confident. If we give up, we have no

chance to make our dreams come true, if we keep trying, there is always a

chance, that we will succeed one day. Thank you very much!

世上无难事，只怕有心人。如果你不努力，没有什么是容易的。

我们经常听到人们说:“永不放弃。”一个相信这些话的人，无论失败多少次，都将继续追求他的目标。在我看来，成功的决心是很重要的。因此，我认为我们不应该放弃。

一个原因是，如果我们轻易放弃，我们将一事无成。我们第一次尝试新事物时失败并不罕见，所以我们不应该感到气馁。此外，如果我们总是在失败的时候放弃，我们就无法发展新的技能。最后，我们永远不应该放弃，因为当我们努力实现我们的目标时，我们会建立信心，这种信心能帮助我们在生活的其他方面取得成功。

也许最伟大的坚持就是亚伯拉罕·林肯。林肯出身贫寒，一生都面临失败。他在8次选举中失败，两次失败，并经历了精神崩溃。他本可以放弃很多次，但他没有，因为他没有放弃，他成为了美国历史上最伟大的总统之一。

林肯是一个冠军，因为他从不放弃。

总之，无论你成功与否，你都可以学到一些东西，无论我们学到什么都会帮助我们变得更加自信。如果我们放弃，我们就没有机会实现我们的梦想，如果我们继续努力，总有机会，我们终有一天会成功。非常感谢!

I made a decision today. Becuase I often lose my confidence, I decide tell myself ‘go’ in front of mirror after getting up every day. I believe this will make me confident. Thus, I can do things I want bravely. Now, I will say, ‘Keep going’.

今天，我做了一个决定，有的时候我会不自信。所以我要每天早上起床后对着镜子说一遍加油。因为我认为那样会使我变得自信。那样，我就可以大胆的去做一些我想要做却会紧张的事。现在，我要说一句：加油!

May Day Holiday at last came! I have lood forward to it for a long time. Because I studied very hard in my school life and L was always thinking of having a holiday and relax myself.

During this holiday, at first I spent two days finishing my homework. Then I spent three days visiting my relatives. At last I spent two days reviewing my lessons.

It was fun to communicate with my relatives,especially my cousin Li Ping.Li Ping and I are very good friends. We have a lot in common.But he lives in another city which is far from mine. So we seldom have a chance to play together.

This holiday, I went to his city and we spent two days togrther. He ledme to many places of interest in his city. And together we played many games. we talked a lot about our schools,our school lives and our friends. We also talked about the best ways to learn well, especially about how to learn English well. Because he was good at English, he gave me some useful advice on it. How I wish I could stay with him for a longer time!

Dear teacher,

Well have a class meeting this afternoon. All of us students hope that you

can attend it. Please accept our sincere invitation. I

n the class meeting, we will make some plans about all the subjects,

including English. We do have some puzzles and we need your help. So we hope you

can set some time aside to be with us in the class meeting. We will feel honored

if you can come to attend our class meeting.

Looking forward to your coming.

Yours

___

亲爱的老师：

今天下午我们将举行一次班会.我们所有的学生希望您能出席.请接受我们真诚的邀请.

在班会上，我们将制作关于所有学科的计划，包括英语.我们确实有一些疑惑并且需要您的帮助.所以我们希望您能腾出些时间来与我们一起上班会.如果您能来出班我们的班会，我们将感觉非常荣幸.

盼望您的到来.

___

The first time of eating buffet

This morning，my bset friend XiaoLuo called me out for buffet dinner. I have

never gone to eat buffet before.

we met at the gate of buffet restaurant of HanTingXuan near the Center

square in GuiLin downtown at 11 am.After buying tickets we went into

therestaurant excitedly.As a food junkie，to be honest，I was totally stunned by a

whole bunch of

delicious!grill，hamburger，cake，sushi，drinks，seafood，iscream，hotpot，ect. In

total， I ate four piece of cake，five sushis，a plate of grill，an iscream，a cup of

lemon juice，five dumplings，a fly rice，a cup of pudding，a plate of fruit

sala，some popcorn，two puffs and some Canonese Dim Sum.After two hours eating，I

felt extreamely stuffed that my belly were going almost burst !To relieve

stomach tension，then we hang around the town.

Stuffed and tired，but I felt very happy!

参考翻译

第一次吃自助餐

今天早上，我最好的朋友小罗打电话叫我和他一起去吃自助餐，在这之前我从未吃过自助餐。

上午11点，我们在桂林市区中心广场附近的汉庭轩自助烤肉餐厅门口见面，买票之后我们激动的进入自助餐馆。说实话，对于一个大吃货来说，看到满目琳琅美食的我简直完全惊呆了!烤肉、汉堡、蛋糕、寿司、饮料、海鲜、不冰淇淋、火锅……总共的，我吃了四块蛋糕、五个寿司、一盘烤肉、一个冰淇淋、一杯柠檬汁、五个饺子、一份炒饭、一杯布丁、一盘水果沙拉、一些爆米花、两个泡芙和一些广式点心。我们吃了两个小时，我简直撑得肚子都要爆炸了!为了缓解肚子，我们然后就去逛街。

虽然又撑又累，但是我觉得非常开心!

Cooperation and competition are both important. They are attributes(归因于,属性) which are equally necessary for a person to achieve success in his life.

Learn to be cooperative. No one likes a selfish, greedy, or arrogant(自大的) individual. However, everyone likes a considerate(体谅的) and cooperative person. Everything we do today, whether in doing business or making friends, depend upon our ability to get along with one another. In our society, most tasks demand the cooperation of many individuals so that they can be accomplished effectively. In this situation, we must be supportive(支援的) and cooperative. Each person is like a small part of a machine. If only one part is out of order, the machine can’t be running well. Besides, transportation and communication systems are rapidly developing and people all over the world can get in touch with each other more easily. It is hard for a person who is isolated(孤立的) from the society to have a deep understanding of the world he lives and to accomplish(实现) a feat(功绩) in his career. Cooperation is becoming more and more important for a person to earn a good life.

Being competitive also has a place in life. If you want to achieve more success and be better than others, you must work harder, study more diligently(勤奋地), and adapt yourself to competition. The desire to succeed and do better than others inspires(激励) us to work harder. If there were no competition, a sports meet would never be exciting and successful, and we would never have champions(冠军的地位).

No doubt, we often find there is an inseparable(不可分离的) relationship between competition and cooperation. In a football match, either team is competing with other. But each member of the team is cooperating with his teammates.

We cooperate with others to be more competitive; we compete to earn a better environment for cooperation. Thus we can make progress(前进) continuously. Only competition together with cooperation leads us to realizze our goals and satisfy our needs.

合作和竞争都很重要。他们的属性（归因于，属性）这对于一个人生活中取得成功。

学会合作。没有人喜欢自私，贪婪，傲慢（自大的）个人。然而，每个人都喜欢一个体贴的（体谅的）合作的人。我们今天所做的一切，无论是做生意还是交朋友，都取决于我们与他人相处的能力。在我们的社会中，大多数的任务需要许多人的合作，使他们能够有效地完成任务。在这种情况下，我们必须支持（支援的）合作。每个人都像一台机器的小部分。如果只有一个零件是无法运行的，机器就不能正常运行。此外，交通和通信系统正在迅速发展，世界各地的人们可以更容易地接触到彼此。一个人是孤立的很（孤立的）从社会有很深的了解他生活和世界（实现）完成的壮举（功绩）在他的职业生涯。合作变得越来越重要，为一个人赚一个好的生活。

竞争也在生活中有一席之地。如果你想取得更大的成功，要比别人更好，你必须更努力，更勤奋的学习（勤奋地），和适应竞争。对成功的渴望，比别人做的更好（激励）激励我们更努力的工作。如果没有竞争，运动会不会有令人兴奋的成功，我们也不会有冠军（冠军的地位）。

毫无疑问，我们经常发现有一个不可分割的（不可分离的）竞争与合作的关系。在一场足球比赛中，任何一支球队都在与其他球队竞争。但是团队中的每一个成员都与队友合作。

我们与其他人合作，以更具竞争性；我们竞争以获得更好的合作环境。因此，我们可以不断进步（前进）。只有竞争，合作，使我们实现我们的目标，满足我们的需求。

[关于竞争与合作的英语作文及翻译

When I was sick, someone will always give me warm. When I was the most depressed, someone will always come and cheer for me! And the man, she is my mommy.

Is she gave me life. Its her, since I was born to take care of me. I was her, for I often shed tears.

Mother, although no great effort, she always take care of me. Anyway, the in the mind only their own children.

There is one thing, from birth to now, I remember clearly.

It was a winter night, outside the wind blowing violently. My sleeping was awakened by the wind. I woke up feeling was hot, so call up mom. "Mom, mom, Im hot." Hear my cry, hurriedly put on the clothes. She touched my forehead. "Oh, very hot." I wear good clothes, back me to the hospital.

On the backs of mother thin, fragile, I felt a kind of never warm. Mothers footsteps is that panic, afraid to delay my best time.

I was diagnosed with encephalitis. I was only four years old, in the hospital for a month of wasted time, become fat. The mother lost many in this month. Accordingly, the mother illness fee, a lot of attention for me. The gaunt. At this moment, I feel the greatness of a never found. That is the great mother.

A few months later, the mother fell ill. I learned from grandma: Im in a month of encephalitis, basic no mother to eat.

At this moment, my eyes moist. Yeah! In this world to the selfless contributions to their own children, Im afraid she was the only one!

在我生病的时候，总会有人给予我温暖。在我最沮丧的时候，总会有人为我加油、打气!而这个人，她就是我的——妈妈。

是她，给予了我生命。是她，从我一出生就照顾着我。还是她，为了我常常掉眼泪。

妈妈，虽没有很大力气的她，一直照顾着我。不管怎样，心里只有自己的儿女。

有一件事，从出生到现在，我记得清清楚楚。

那是一个初冬的晚上，屋外的风猛烈地刮着。我的熟睡被风声惊醒了。我醒来时感觉浑身发烫，于是叫起了妈妈。“妈妈，妈妈，我热。”妈妈听到我的叫声后，赶紧穿好衣服。她摸了摸我的额头。“哎呀!烫。”给我穿好衣服后，背我去了医院。

在母亲瘦小、弱不禁风的背上，我感觉到了一种从来没有的温暖。母亲的脚步是那样的恐慌，生怕耽误了我的最佳治疗时间。

我被查出患有脑炎。年仅四岁的我，在医院里虚度了一个月的光阴，变胖了。而母亲在这一个月里瘦了许多。由此可知，母亲为我的病费了不少的心思。整个人都憔悴了。这时，我感到一种从来没有发现的伟大。那就是母亲的伟大。

几个月后，母亲病倒了。我从外婆那里得知：我患脑炎的一个月里，母亲基本没有吃东西。

这时，我的眼睛湿润了。是啊!在这世界上能够对自己的儿女无私奉献的人，恐怕只有她一个!

Christmas， annual Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ。 Most members of the Roman Catholic Church and followers of Protestantism celebrate Christmas on December 25， and many celebrate on the evening of December 24 as well。 Members of the Eastern Orthodox Church usually delay their most important seasonal ceremonies until January 6， when they celebrate Epiphany， a commemoration of the baptism of Jesus。 Epiphany also traditionally commemorates the arrival of the Three Wise Men of the East in Bethlehem （near Jerusalem， Israel）， where they adored the infant Jesus and presented him with gifts of gold， frankincense， and myrrh。 The official Christmas season， popularly known as either Christmastide or the Twelve Days of Christmas， extends from the anniversary of Christ’s birth on December 25 to the feast of Epiphany on January 6。  Christmas is based on the story of Jesus’ birth as described in the Gospel according to Matthew （see Matthew 1：18—2：12） and the Gospel according to Luke （see Luke 1：26—56）。 Roman Catholics first celebrated Christmas， then known as the Feast of the Nativity， as early as 336 ad。 The word Christmas entered the English language sometime around 1050 as the Old English phrase Christes maesse， meaning festival of Christ。 Scholars believe the frequently used shortened form of Christmas—Xmas—may have come into use in the 13th century。 The X stands for the Greek letter chi， an abbreviation of Khristos （Christ）， and also represents the cross on which Jesus was crucified。

12月25日，是基督教徒纪念耶稣诞生的日子，称为圣诞节。从12月24日于翌年1月6日为圣诞节节期。节日期间，各国基督教徒都举行隆重的纪念仪式。圣诞节本来是基督教徒的节日，由于人们格外重视，它便成为一个全民性的节日，是西方国家一年中最盛大的节日，可以和新年相提并论，类似我国过春节。西方人以红、绿、白三色为圣诞色，圣诞节来临时家家户户都要用圣诞色来装饰。红色的有圣诞花和圣诞蜡烛。绿色的是圣诞树。它是圣诞节的主要装饰品，用砍伐来的杉、柏一类呈塔形的常青树装饰而成。上面悬挂着五颜六色的彩灯、礼物和纸花，还点燃着圣诞蜡烛。红色与白色相映成趣的是圣诞老人，他是圣诞节活动中最受欢迎的人物。西方儿童在圣诞夜临睡之前，要在壁炉前或枕头旁放上一只袜子，等候圣诞老人在他们入睡后把礼物放在袜子内。在西方，扮演圣诞老人也是一种习俗。