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庆祝圣诞节时有很多常规，例如作许多手工艺品来装饰自己的房子－图中是一床毯子。你最喜欢的节日常规是什么呢？
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克来门特．摩尔 (Clement
Moore) 被认为是在1822年12月24日完成圣尼古拉斯的拜访 (A
Visit from St. Nicholas) 的作者
克来门特．摩尔从哥伦比亚大学毕业。作为一个学者，一般人认为他本来不想发表这种随意的节日诗作，但是却不知道为什么在1823年的12月时被外界得知这个作品，他因此而感到不好意思。一直到1844年，摩尔才正式署名发表这篇作品。后来，这篇「圣诞节前夕」也出现了许多版本。
到现在，美国父母还是会在12月24日小孩子就寝时、念这个故事给他们听，就像他们的父母所做的一样。这段圣诞老人的消息是由汤玛斯．爱迪森公司在1922年录制的，虽然并没有成为经典，可是你可以想像一下小孩子看着照片、听着这段消息，的样子，他们可是非常相信自己所听到的声音，就是圣诞老人躲在机器后面所说的呢！
Clement Moore graduated from Columbia. As a scholar, he is said to have been embarrassed by the light-hearted holiday poem, which somehow made its way into the public without his knowledge in December 1823. Moore did not publish it under his name until 1844. Many editions of "The Night Before Christmas" have been published over the years.
American parents still read the tale to their children at bedtime on December 24, as their parents did to them. This message from Santa, recorded by the Thomas Edison Company in 1922, didn't quite become a classic. But you might imagine small children listening to it on an old phonograph, believing the voice they heard was really that of Santa Claus, hidden inside the machine.
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