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That very day Paddy went to the woods, and gathered holly and cut a little evergreen tree and some cedar branches and things like that.
當天，培迪就去了森林，他收集了冬青，砍了一顆小常青樹和一些雪松樹枝，還有其他類似的一些東西。
He hung them all around the walls of the dark cave and stood the little evergreen tree up in one corner.
他把樹枝掛在了洞里的墻上，把小常青樹豎在一個角落里。
After that he sang the songs that the children in the log house had sung, and he thought that this was Christmas.
之后他唱起了木屋里孩子們唱的歌曲，認為這就是圣誕節(jié)了。
For a little while Paddy was very happy.
培迪只快樂了一小會兒。
Then he began to feel that something was wrong; so he went to his father and his mother and his uncle and his aunt and waked them up.
接著他便感覺有什么事情不對勁了；于是他到爸爸、媽媽和叔權(quán)、阿姨那兒，把他們都叫醒了。
Uncle Bear was wrong, he said. "This isn't Christmas.
他說：熊叔叔說的不對。這不是圣誕節(jié)。
There is something more, because when boys and girls have it, it's pretty, and it's lots of fun, and it makes you feel good from the inside out.
還有更多的東西，當男孩和女孩們過圣誕節(jié)的時候，那是很漂亮的，還有許多有趣的事，并且讓人由里到外感到高興。
This is pretty, and it's fun; but it doesn't make me feel good from the inside out."
咱們這樣也很漂亮，很有趣；但這并沒有讓我由內(nèi)而外感到高興。
This time it was Aunt Bear who said she would find out what Christmas is.
這次，熊阿姨說她要去探察一下圣誕節(jié)是什么。
Down the mountain she crept to the little log house, and listened and looked and sniffed. Then she came back to Paddy.
她順著山坡偷偷地溜到了小木屋旁，她又是聽又是看，還用鼻子仔細地嗅了嗅，接著回到了培迪那里。
Christmas, said Aunt Bear, "is getting presents. You get toys and good things to eat.
阿姨說：圣誕節(jié)呢，就是收收禮物。你收到了玩具和好吃的東西。
See, I brought you some presents on my back."
看，我給你帶回來些禮物，在我背上。
