Christmas

(noun.) a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.

(noun.) period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6.

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• The quarter is not due till Christmas, but you may pay it, and have done with it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• To this invitation Father Christmas, in the name of them all, readily agreed. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She came here to a Christmas ball and party Mr. Rochester gave. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Everybody had new clothes at Christmas. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Get thee down, Robert Jordan whispered to Agustín, and he turned his head and flicked his hand _Down, Down_, to Anselmo who was coming through the gap with a pine tree, carrying it over his shoulder like a Christmas tree. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I can't tell you how much I enjoyed your Christmas bundle, for I didn't get it till night and had given up hoping. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• One afternoon about a week before Christmas Edison's train jumped the track near Utica, a station on the line. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was the room in which, six months earlier, the merry Christmas party had met, to which Eustacia came secretly and as a stranger. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I gave up dealing in reddle last Christmas, said Venn. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Every Christmas Day, he retorted, as he now retorted, It's no more than your merits. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY The year came round to Christmas-time, and I had been at home above two months. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• On Christmas eve of 1801, Trevithick made the initial trip with the first successful steam road locomotive through the streets of Camborne in Cornwall, carrying passengers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Emma shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings John and Isabella. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Such were the two worthies to whom Mr. Pickwick was introduced, as he took his seat at the breakfast-table on Christmas morning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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