Christmas Gifts

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

我從不相信圣誕老人，我們這些孩子都不相信。爸爸和媽媽不允許我們這么做。

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.

他們不能承受這昂貴的圣誕禮物,但也不想我們認為自己不如那些在圣誕節早晨可以在圣誕樹下找到各種時髦的禮物的孩子，那些禮物被認為是來自圣誕老人。

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.

那年圣誕夜時，爸爸失去了他的工作，我們一分錢也沒有了。在圣誕夜前夕，爸爸帶我們我們這些孩子一個接一個的來到一個荒野。

“Pick out your favorite star,” Dad said.

“挑選一個你們最喜歡的星星”，爸爸說。

“I like that one!” I said.

“我喜歡那一個”，我叫喊著。

Dad grinned, “that’s Venus”, he said. He explained to me that planets glowed because reflected light was constant and stars twinkled because their light pulsed.

爸爸笑著說“那是金星”。他向我解釋由于不變的反射光使那個星星發紅光，由于他們光線的跳動使得星星一閃一閃。

“I like it anyway,” I said.

”無論如何我都喜歡它”，我說。

“What the hell,” Dad said. “It’s Christmas. You can have a planet if you want.”And he gave me Venus.

“管他呢”爸爸說，”今天是圣誕節。如果你們愿意，你們可以擁有一個星星。”
于是他把金星給了我。

Venus didn’t have any moons or satellites or even a magnetic field, but it did have an atmosphere sort of similar to Earth’s, except it was super hot—about 500 degrees or more. “So,” Dad said, “when the sun starts to burn out and Earth turns cold, everyone might want to move to Venus to get warm. And they’ll have to get permission from your descendants first.”

金星沒有任何的衛星或者人造衛星，甚至沒有磁場，但是它有有一層和地球類似的大氣層。另外，它的溫度最高超過500℃，爸爸說“因此，當太陽燃盡地球變得寒冷時，所有人都想搬到金星上取暖，并且所有人都要先得到你金星的后裔的批準。”

We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. “

我們因為想到其他相信圣誕老人傳說的孩子在圣誕節那天除了一堆廉價的塑料玩具外什么也得不到而感到可笑。

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,” Dad said, “you’ll still have your stars.”

爸爸說“從今年開始，當他們的所有禮物都廢棄并遺忘時，你們仍然擁有自己的星星。”

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