每日英语好文翻译（11）

Christmas Gifts

I never believed in Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us.

我从不相信圣诞老人，我们这些孩子都不相信。爸爸和妈妈不允许我们这么做。

They couldn’t afford expensive presents and they didn’t want us to think we weren’t as good as other kids who, on Christmas morning, found all sorts of fancy toys under the tree that were supposedly left by Santa Claus.

他们不能承受这昂贵的圣诞礼物,但也不想我们认为自己不如那些在圣诞节早晨可以在圣诞树下找到各种时髦的礼物的孩子，那些礼物被认为是来自圣诞老人。

Dad had lost his job, and when Christmas came that year, we had no money at all. On Christmas Eve, Dad took each one of us kids out into the desert night one by one.

那年圣诞夜时，爸爸失去了他的工作，我们一分钱也没有了。在圣诞夜前夕，爸爸带我们我们这些孩子一个接一个的来