This holiday season you may find your company party budget a bit sobering.While it's tempting to bring forth your Ebenezer Scrooge, remember that the holiday spirit is more about investing in and valuing relationships than spending on an expensive party。

　　在旅游季节，你也许会发现公司的派对预算有点超支了。然而如果开始打算吝啬的减少开支的时候，你要知道度假的核心不是举办奢侈的聚会，而是投资和感情的建立。

　　According to an October 2008 survey by Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, Inc., an outplacement consulting firm headquartered in Chicago, 13 percent of all businesses surveyed will be spending less than they did last year on holiday parties, with budget cuts expected to average 53 percent. More than half of the employers holding parties are having them on a workday or near the end of the workday。

　　Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, Inc。公司是一家总部在芝加哥的再就业咨询公司，根据其2008年十月的调查显示，接受调查的企业中，有13%的公司打算缩减其聚会预算，大概是减少53%左右。大部分的老板都是在工作日或在工作日快结束的时候举行聚会。

　　To help you appreciate each other without breaking the bank, here are seven, low-cost office celebration ideas:

　　为了使你更好的了解别人而又不至于破产，以下给出7点关于低成本的办公室庆祝方法：

　　1. Make music You can learn a lot about a person through their musical tastes. Have each person on the team share their favorite winter tune for a group CD. Then, host a CD release party, complete with holiday cookies and hot apple cider。

　　作曲。你可以从一个人的音乐品味中了解很多事情。让小组里的每个成员分享他们最爱的曲子，制作一个小组CD。然后在聚会上一边播放这些CD，一边以节日饼干，热苹果酒等招待他们。

　　2. Give a pat on the back. You dream of the day that your boss and coworkers will lavish

　　praise upon you. Why not experience it now? Do a Secret Santa exchange where each person draws three different names out of a hat then writes holiday cards to those three coworkers describing what they most appreciate about them。

　　表扬别人。你幻想有一天你的老板或同事大肆表扬你么？为什么不现在就开始体验呢？制作一个秘密的圣诞交换计划，将每个人的名字写下来放在一个帽子里，然后每个人抽三个人的名字，并给抽到的人寄节日祝福卡片，写下你对他们最大的欣赏。

　　3. Enjoy festive foods. Share what the holiday spirit means to you -- with food. Have each person bring a traditional family dish accompanied by a story about who usually made it for them, why it's a favorite and the recipe。

　　享受节日的食品。分享节日精神意味着和你一起分享食物。每个人都带一个家庭传统食品到公司来和大家分享，并告诉大家这是家中的谁所擅长的，还有为什么喜欢这些食物，并和大家分享秘方。

　　4. Do a favor. Wouldn't it be a treat to have your own personal assistant? Have everyone in the office create a wish list of ways they'd like to be pampered, from having copies made to lunch delivery. Next, put the lists in a hat, have everyone pick out one and then enjoy both giving and receiving。

　　帮助别人。如果你有私人助理的话这待遇岂不是很好？ 让办公室的每个人都写一张清单，上面是他们最想享受的事情，然后将清单复印出来，在午餐时将每个人的清单收上来。接下来，将所有的放在一个帽子里，让每个人挑出一张，然后让相互跳到的人分享付出和收获的双重喜悦。

　　5. Give to others. How about some office competition for a cause? Divide coworkers into teams and have each team pick a charity they want to support. Then, go bowling and let each team donate a certain sum of company money based upon their bowling record。

　　为他人付出。为了某个目标来点办公室竞争怎么样？将同事分组，并让每组选择一个他们想支持的团队。然后，让每个团队开始打保龄球比赛，根据比赛结果向公司捐赠一定的钱作为公司活动资金。

　　6. Relive your childhood. Isn't the best thing about the holiday season reliving your childhood? Have a game day where you play favorite childhood games like pin the tail on the donkey or musical chairs. You'll feel like a kid again

　　回归童真。假期最好的事情难道不是回归童真吗？花一天的时间玩小时候最爱的游戏，比如贴驴子尾巴或抢椅游戏。你会感觉又重新回到了童年。

　　7. Play truth-or-dare. Create a bunch of work-friendly, holiday-related truth-0r-dare questions. Find out when your boss first learned about Santa Claus or laugh as the finance group serenades the front office staff with "Jingle Bells."

　　玩真心话大冒险游戏。想一大堆关于“工作友好”，或与节假日有关的真心话大冒险的问题。看看你的上司是什么时候知道圣诞老人的，或在财务部全体人员唱小夜曲的时候以“圣诞钟声”的歌声来嘲笑他们。