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提起圣诞树,出现在你脑子里的是松树或冷杉等常绿树,又或者是可重复使用的塑料树……打住!太没创意了,要与时俱进的话,还要开动脑筋^_^

Give me that chocolate!

With only a few weeks to go until Christmas, here’s something to really get people in the spirit: a tree that’s 10 metres tall and made entirely of chocolate. The sweet creation towers inside the Patrick Roger Factory in the suburbs of Paris. It weighs four tons. That’s around 800,000 standard-size chocolate bars, and it took a month to build. And Patrick Roger, the man in charge of it all, says it was difficult to piece together.

Patrick: (via translator) To achieve this kind of architecture, because this really is a piece of architecture, we used a sort of 1)cavity to make the chocolate strong enough, because there is very strong vertical pressure.

But it’s not just done to show off his skills as a 2)chocolatier. There is a real spirit of Christmas behind it. The tree’s going to feature in a 3)telethon to help raise money for research into 4)neuromuscular diseases.

口水直下三千尺,疑是奇迹降人间

离圣诞节就只有几周时间了,我们可是有能切实让人们有个节日心境的消息——一棵全部用巧克力打造的十米高圣诞树。这个甜蜜蜜的庞然大物耸立在位于巴黎近郊的帕特里克·罗杰巧克力作坊,它重达四吨,由大约八十万块条形巧克力组成,耗时一个月才建成。而负责这一切的帕特里克·罗杰说,把这么多巧克力拼合在一起并不容易。

帕特里克:(通过翻译)要完成这样一个建筑物——它确实是一个建筑体,我们用了空腔的原理来让整棵树更坚固,因为圣诞树的垂直压力太大了。

但这棵巧克力树的产生并不是为了炫耀他自己作为巧克力点心师的本领,在这棵树的背后有着真正的圣诞节精神。它将会出现在一档马拉松式的电视节目里,为神经肌肉疾病方面的研究募捐。

Give me luxury or give me death!

Christmas, a time of giving, of buying each other gifts, of shopping, of spending money, although the recession’s put a damper on that. Nobody’ll be getting anything in Britain, but in the United Arab Emirates it’s a different story.

Janet Abrams (Emirates Palace Hotel): This year we’ve partnered with Mr. Khalifa Khoury, who is the Chairman of Style Gallery, and they have provided us with $11 million worth of precious gems and jewellery, and that enables us to go for the Guinness World Record for the world’s most expensively dressed tree.

不要最好的,只要最贵的!

虽说经济不景气给圣诞节蒙上了阴影,可它毕竟是给予的季节,是相互买礼物、购物和花钱的时候。在英国,谁都不会收到礼物,但在阿拉伯联合酋长国,那就是另一回事了。

简妮特·艾布拉姆斯(阿联酋皇宫酒店):今年,我们与卡里法·科里先生联手。他是风尚美术馆的主席,他们向我们提供了价值一千一百万美元的珠宝,这样我们就可以申报世界上装扮最昂贵的圣诞树这一项吉尼斯世界纪录了。

Good for you! Janet Abrams from the Emirates Palace Hotel giving you something to cheer your heart as you munch on your little turkey and pull your 5)Netto 6)crackers. The 13-metre-high diamond decorated tree, placed under the main gold-covered dome of the luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi. That’s the same place that brought us this, the world’s first ATM machine that dispenses gold bars. So the tree’s a little low-key by comparison, but Janet hopes it’ll do the job.

Janet: What we have tried to do is to give everybody who visits and everybody who’s staying here a chance to be part of something really special and unique.

Tourists and visitors stopping to have their picture taken in front of the golden tree. And if you’re thirsty, the Emirates Palace does a mean cappuccino topped with real gold flakes.

干得好!在你吃着小火鸡,拉扯着从廉价超市买的彩包爆竹的同时,阿联酋皇宫酒店的简妮特·艾布拉姆斯让你心中充满喜悦。在阿布扎比这家豪华酒店的金色圆屋顶之下,这棵13米高的圣诞树浑身上下挂满钻石;也正是这个地方,曾经有世界上第一台能吐出金条的自动柜员机。相比之下,这棵树也算低调了,但简妮特对这棵树寄予厚望。

简妮特:我们希望所有到访的来客和所有来这里入住的旅客都有机会得到一种不同寻常的体验。

游客和参观者纷纷在这棵金灿灿的圣诞树前驻足拍照。如果你口渴的话,阿联酋皇宫酒店还有上面洒了真金箔的美味卡布奇诺咖啡。

If there is 80,000 spoonful of ice cream…

Some students in Taiwan have made a tree entirely from plastic spoons, 80,000 in total, making the tree 12 metres high. A local branch of KFC donated the spoons. The six youngsters won a competition at a local university. And, unlike a traditional tree, you can walk inside it. If you’re worried that these spoons are going to be binned after the festive period is over, don’t worry. They’re going to be recycled.

要是每个勺子里都放点冰淇淋……

在台湾,有些学生用八万只塑料勺子做了一棵高达12米的圣诞树。勺子是由当地的一家肯德基捐的。六名年轻人借此在当地的一所大学赢了一个比赛。与传统圣诞树不同的是,你可以走进这棵圣诞树里面。如果你担心这些勺子在节日之后会被扔进垃圾堆的话,那请放心,它们会被回收再利用。翻译:旭文