Nicholas became famous for gift-giving, usually to the poor. In the early fourth century a legend began to spread about Nicholas coming at night to the home of three poor girls who did not have dowries and therefore could not marry their fiancés. While the girls slept, Nicholas left gold coins in their stockings, which were drying by the fire. That’s how our tradition of Santa filling stockings got its start.
尼古拉斯因经常给穷人送礼而广受赞誉。早在四世纪,相传尼古拉斯在晚上来到三个穷苦的女孩房前,由于没有嫁妆,她们无法和自己的未婚夫结婚。当女孩们在睡觉时,尼古拉斯把金币放进正在烘烤的袜子里。这正是圣诞老人把礼物放进袜子传统的由来。
Santa is known my many names all over the world. He became “Santa Claus” in America because many of the first English colonists to arrive to not celebrate Christmas; as Puritans they felt the holiday was disrespectful to Jesus. But their children saw the children of Dutch settlers receiving gifts from someone called “St. Nicholas.” They thought the gift-giver’s name was “Sinter Klass” and anglicized it further to “Santa Claus.”
圣诞老人在世界各地有很多不同的名字。在美国,他是“圣克劳斯”(Santa Claus),因为第一批到来的英国殖民者大多不庆祝圣诞节;身为清教徒,他们觉得过节是对耶稣的不敬。但是他们的孩子看到荷兰殖民者的孩子收到来自一个名叫“圣尼古拉斯”(St. Nicholas)的礼物。他们认为送礼人的名字是“圣特克劳斯”(Sinter Klass),再将名字英译就是“圣克劳斯”。
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