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慶祝聖誕節時有很多傳統，例如作許多手工藝品來裝飾自己的房子—圖中是一床毯子。你最喜歡的節日傳統是什麼呢？
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克來門特‧摩爾 (Clement
Moore) 被認為是在1822年12月24日完成聖尼古拉斯的拜訪 (A
Visit from St. Nicholas) 的作者
克來門特‧摩爾從哥倫比亞大學畢業。作為一個學者，一般人認為他本來不想發表這種隨意的節日詩作，但是卻不知道為什麼在1823年的12月時被外界得知這個作品，他因此而感到不好意思。一直到1844年，摩爾才正式署名發表這篇作品。後來，這篇「聖誕節前夕」也出現了許多版本。
到現在，美國父母還是會在12月24日小孩子就寢時、念這個故事給他們聽，就像他們的父母所做的一樣。這段聖誕老人的訊息是由湯瑪斯‧愛迪森公司在1922年錄製的，雖然並沒有成為經典，可是你可以想像一下小孩子看著照片、聽著這段訊息，的樣子，他們可是非常相信自己所聽到的聲音，就是聖誕老人躲在機器後面所說的呢！
Clement Moore graduated from Columbia. As a scholar, he is said to have been embarrassed by the light-hearted holiday poem, which somehow made its way into the public without his knowledge in December 1823. Moore did not publish it under his name until 1844. Many editions of "The Night Before Christmas" have been published over the years.
American parents still read the tale to their children at bedtime on December 24, as their parents did to them. This message from Santa, recorded by the Thomas Edison Company in 1922, didn't quite become a classic. But you might imagine small children listening to it on an old phonograph, believing the voice they heard was really that of Santa Claus, hidden inside the machine.
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