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Todd: Nicola, you're from England.
托德：尼科拉，你是來自英國吧。
Nicola: Yes, I am.
尼科拉：對啊，是的。
Todd: OK. Now in England you have something called "Boxing day".
托德：好的。現在英國有稱為“節禮日”的節日。
Nicola: Yes, we do.
尼科拉：對，是有。
Todd: So, we don't have that in America. What is Boxing day?
托德：我們美國并沒有這樣一個節日。什么是節禮日？
Nicola: Well, boxing day is always on the 26th of December, the day after Christmas day, and it was originally called boxing day because it was the day in England when the very rich people in Victorian times gave presents to their servants, the day after Christmas, and usually it would be something like money, or food but they would give it to them in a small box, and so on December the 26th, servants would receive their boxes,the Christmas boxes, and that's why it was called Boxing day.
尼科拉：嗯，節禮日是在每年的12月26日，圣誕節之后的那天，稱之為節禮是是因為在維多利亞時代，英國的富人通常在圣誕節之后的這一天送仆人禮物，禮物一般是錢、食物之類的東西，他們會把禮物放在一個小盒子里，仆人們會在12月26日收到他們的盒子，圣誕節盒子，這就是稱之為節禮日的原因。
Todd: OK
托德：好的。
Nicola: Today, people don't really receive money or food so much, sometimes you give extra tips at Christmas, but Boxing day has stuck. So that's the name.
尼科拉：今天，人們通常不會收到金錢或是食物這樣的禮物，有時你會在圣誕節給額外的小費，而節禮日一定要給。所以名字就這么得來了。
Todd: What do people do on Boxing day?
托德：人們在節禮日都做什么？
Nicola: Nothing really. Uh, eat the leftover turkey, turkey sandwiches, watch TV, and in my family we usually go and watch dog racing, grey hound racing. Yeah, and lose some money...
尼科拉：沒什么。嗯，吃剩下的火雞，火雞三明治，看電視，我們家通常會去看賽狗比賽，灰狗比賽。
Todd: Lose money!
托德：輸錢！
Nicola: Yeah always. At least I do.
尼科拉：的確總是輸錢。至少我是這樣的。
Todd: Wow, cool. Dog track. Is there a dog track near your house?
托德：哇，很酷啊。賽狗比賽。你家附近有賽狗場地嗎？
Nicola: Yeah, there is, where I live, yeah.
尼科拉：是啊，有，就在我住的地方。
