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圣诞节为何要戴纸帽子

　　All over Britain on Christmas Day, families can be found sittingaround their dining tables enjoying a traditional lunch of roastturkey with all the trimmings - and all, regardless of age, wearingcoloured paper hats. It is rumoured that even the Queen wears herpaper hat over lunch!

　　圣诞节当天，全英国的家庭都会坐在餐桌前，吃一顿传统的圣诞大餐，塞满了各种馅料的烤火鸡。无论年龄老幼，所有人都会在头上戴一顶彩色纸做成的纸帽子。据说，就连伊莉莎白女王也会戴纸帽子哦！

　　So why this quaint tradition? Where do these paper hats comefrom? The answer is the Christmas Cracker。

　　那为什么会有这个古怪的传统呢？戴纸帽子的传统来源于哪里？答案就在另一项圣诞传统活动——圣诞拉炮！

　　A Christmas Cracker is a cardboard paper tube, wrapped inbrightly coloured paper and twisted at both ends. There is a bangerinside the cracker, two strips of chemically impregnated paper thatreact with friction so that when the cracker is pulled apart by twopeople, the cracker makes a bang。

　　圣诞拉炮是用硬纸板做的纸筒，再用色彩鲜艳的彩纸包裹在外面，两端拧紧。在拉炮里会有一个爆竹，当两个人拉动拉炮两端时，拉炮里的两条浸渍纸就会发生摩擦，发出“嘣”的响声。

　　Inside the cracker there is a paper crown made from tissuepaper, a motto or joke on a slip of paper and a little gift。

　　拉炮里会装有纸做的皇冠、写在纸上的名言或笑话，还会有一些小礼物。

　　Christmas crackers are a British tradition dating back toVictorian times when in the early 1850s, London confectioner TomSmith started adding a motto to his sugared almond bon-bons whichhe sold wrapped in a twisted paper package。

　　圣诞拉炮成为英国传统的历史可以追溯到维多利亚时期，约在19世纪50年代早期，伦敦的一个糖果商汤姆-史密斯把写有名言的纸片放在了他售卖的糖果包装里，包装方式就是在糖果外用纸将两头拧紧。

　　The paper hat was added to the cracker in the early 1900s. Thecracker was soon adopted as a traditional festive custom and todayvirtually every household has at least one box of crackers to pullover Christmas。

　　到了20世纪初，纸帽子也被放到了圣诞拉炮里。很快，拉炮就成了英国人过圣诞节的传统习俗。现在，所有的英国家庭至少都会准备一盒拉炮留到圣诞节时来拉响。

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