關於聖誕節的10句名言

1. "Bah, humbug!'

‘啊，你個騙子！’

Scrooge's catchphrase, 'Bah, humbug', is often used to express disgust with Christmas charity. Alastair Sim played Scrooge in the classic 1951 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

這句話是吝嗇鬼斯克魯奇的口頭禪。在聖誕節，它常常用來表達對慈善團體的厭惡。在1951年查爾斯·狄更斯的改編電影《聖誕頌歌》中，阿拉斯塔爾·西姆扮演的吝嗇鬼角色就曾經說過這句話。

2. 'Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.'

‘聖誕老人一年只拜訪人們一次，這真是個明智的決定。’

Victor Borge (1909-2000), who was born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish and American comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark.

這句話是來自維克托·博奇（Victor Borge），他是丹麥美國混血，是喜劇演員、指揮家和鋼琴家。他因那部戲劇《丹麥的小丑王子》而廣爲人知。

3. 'The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.'

‘聖誕節早晨，女人最不想在她們的長筒襪裏發現的，就是她們的老公。’

--The late American comic Joan Rivers

——已故美國喜劇演員瓊·裏弗斯

4. 'I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.'

‘我六歲的時候就不相信聖誕老人的存在了。因爲在那一年，媽媽帶我去一家百貨商店看聖誕老人，結果聖誕老人向我要簽名。’

--Child star actress Shirley Temple

——童星秀蘭·鄧波兒

5. 'Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it white.'

‘除非我們在聖誕節共同分享祝福與愛，否則阿拉斯加所有的雪也不能帶來真正的白色聖誕節。’

--Bing Crosby (1904-1977), American actor and singer who had a million-selling hit withI'm Dreaming Of A White Christmas.

——賓·克勞斯貝（1904－1977），美國演員、歌手，其歌曲《白色聖誕》創下了百萬美元的不朽業績。

6. 'I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.'

‘聖誕節過後的第二天，我總會覺得撐得難受，既無趣又失望。’

--Sylvia Plath, poet

——詩人西爾維婭·普拉特

7. 'Always winter but never Christmas.'

‘總是冬天但從不是聖誕。’

--CS Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

——C．S．劉易斯的《獅子，女巫和魔衣櫥》

8. 'My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?'

‘不管你覺得這太守舊亦或是太時髦，聖誕節對我來說很簡單，就是關愛他人。試着想想吧，難道我們非要等到聖誕節才這麼做嗎？’

--American comedian Bob Hope

——美國喜劇演員鮑勃·霍普

9. 'It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.'

‘去年也下雪了：我做了個雪人，然後我弟弟把雪人弄塌了，於是我把弟弟打翻在地，之後我們相安無事，一起喝了杯茶。’

--Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales

——狄蘭·托馬斯《威爾士孩子的聖誕》

10. 'God bless us, every one!' Come on everybody . . . . 'Ahhhhh'.

‘願上帝保佑我們每一個人！每一個人！啊！’

A sentimental ending to Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is provided by Tiny Tim (2009 Disney version) who offers the statement, 'God bless us, every one!' at Christmas dinner, with the nice new Scrooge in mind.

這是2009年迪士尼改編的狄更斯的《聖誕頌歌》中，小蒂姆給予這部電影的一個充滿情感的結尾。在吃聖誕大餐時，想着不再吝嗇、善良的斯克魯奇，他說：“願上帝保佑我們每一個人！”