It is said that in the year of 300 AD, there was a kind old man and his name was Saint Nicholas. He was always ready to help the poor and often gave presents to them.

　　Today, Father Christmas is an imaginary figure, but nearly all young children believe in him. They think he is a happy old man with a long white beard and a long red robe.

　　On the night of the twenty-fourth of December every year, Father Christmas from some cold northern land comes down the chimney of the fireplace to put presents by the beds of children or to fill their stockings. So when children go to bed that night, they hang up their stockings, and on Christmas morning they wake to find them full of presents. Of course, it‘s really their parents who fill the stockings.

　　Another name for Father Christmas is Santa Claus.

　　譯文：

　　據(jù)說(shuō)，在公元300年，有一個(gè)善良的老人，他的名字是圣尼古拉斯。他總是愿意幫助窮人，常常送禮物給他們。

　　如今，圣誕老人是一個(gè)虛構(gòu)的人物，但幾乎所有的孩子都相信他。他們認(rèn)為他是一個(gè)快樂(lè)長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的白胡子和一個(gè)長(zhǎng)長(zhǎng)的紅色長(zhǎng)袍的老人。

　　在第二十每年的十二月份的第四夜，父親從寒冷的北方一些圣誕歸結(jié)土地的壁爐煙囪提出的兒童床禮物或填補(bǔ)他們的襪子。因此，當(dāng)孩子上床睡覺，那天晚上，他們就掛上他們的襪子，并在圣誕節(jié)早晨醒來(lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)他們裝滿禮物。當(dāng)然，這需要他們的父母誰(shuí)填補(bǔ)了襪子。

　　圣誕老人的另一個(gè)名字是圣誕老人。