'One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.'

“袜子永远不够穿。圣诞节来了又去，我一双袜子也没有收到。人们坚持要送书给我。”

Professor Dumbledore in the first Harry¹ Potter book by J.K Rowling. Dumbledore was played by Michael Gambon in some of the films.

邓布利多教授在JK罗琳的第一本《哈利波特》小说中说道。迈克尔·冈本在几部电影里扮演了邓布利多。

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

“女人不想在圣诞的袜子里找到的唯一东西就是他们的丈夫。”

——The late American comic Joan Rivers

——已故的美国喜剧女王琼·里弗斯

'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.'

“我六岁的时候就不相信圣诞老人了。麻麻带我去百货公司看他，他向我要签名。”

——Child star actress Shirley Temple

——女童星秀兰·邓波儿

'Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.'

“圣诞节就是一年里不管你是什么宗教信仰的人都会聚到一起，崇拜耶稣的时节。”

——Bart Simpson

——巴特·辛普森

'Always winter but never Christmas.'

“总是冬天但从不是圣诞。”

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

——CS刘易斯的《狮子，女巫和魔衣橱》

'Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.'

“圣诞节对孩子们来说是期盼的过程远远大于到来的喜悦.”

——Stephen Fry, presenter² of QI (above)

——斯蒂芬·弗雷，QI节目的主持人

'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：我做了个雪人，然后我母亲撞倒了他，然后我撞倒了我兄弟，然后我们喝了杯茶。”

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

——狄兰·托马斯，《威尔士孩子的圣诞》

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

“我感觉塞得满满的，很无趣又失望，这就是我常常在圣诞节第二天的经历。”

——Sylvia Plath, poet

——诗人西尔维娅·普拉特