有一个关于圣尼古拉斯的著名传说,讲的是有一天,尼古拉斯听说在米拉镇边界上一所简陋的小屋里住着美丽的三姐妹。她们非常穷,赚钱很少,几乎难以保证自己和老母亲不被饿死。尼古拉听说了三姐妹的悲惨境况后非常担忧,决定帮助她们。
One night, when everyone was asleep, Nicholas crept through the streets to the edge of town. Quietly, he tiptoed up to the hut where the three sisters lived. He climbed onto the roof and dropped three bags of gold through the hole in the roof where the smoke from the fire came out. Now it so happened that the three sisters has washed their stockings before they went to bed. The stockings has been hung by the fire to dry. When Nicholas dropped the gold through the smoke hole, each bag of gold fell into a stocking.
一天夜里,当大家都入睡后,尼古拉斯蹑手蹑脚地穿街走巷,来到了小镇边界。他悄悄地踮起脚走到三姐妹住的小屋旁,爬上屋顶,把三袋金子顺着房顶炉火冒烟的洞口扔了下去。而三姐妹上床前恰巧刚洗完自己的长袜,把它们挂在炉火旁烘干。就在尼古拉斯把金子透过烟囱扔下去时,每袋金子分别落入了一只袜子中。
The three sisters were overjoyed to find three bags of gold in their stockings when they woke up the next morning. Soon, the story began to spread. Other people began to hang up stockings in the hope of finding bags of gold when they woke up in the morning. From this legend sprang the custom of hanging stockings up by the chimney on Christmas Eve. Over the years, Saint Nicholas became associated with Christmas.
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