a christmas carol 圣诞颂歌

Spends the day with Fred's family, Sends a prize turkey to Bob’s home for Christmas dinner Agree to the request from the gentleman
God bless us, everyone!
Kindness
Generosity
Compassion(同情)
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
------Charles Dickens
The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled(使… 干枯) his cheek（脸颊）; made his eyes red, his thin lips（嘴唇） blue; and spoke out in his grating（刺耳的） voice.
the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Shows Christmas Day one year later.
“He looked about in that very place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner……”
A lonely boy was reading by a feeble table.
Visit a party held by Old Fezziwig.
Think of Scrooge’s neglected fiancée, Belle .
The Ghost of Christmas Present Celebrations of Christmas “Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end. The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich. “
returned.
“It’s not my business, ”Scrooge
“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice.
Fetter v. 给…上脚镣手铐
Mankind was my business. “You will be haunted,” resumed the Ghost, “by Three Spirits.” Expect the first tomorrow, when the bell tolls One.” … ”Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. “…
“This is the end of it, you see! He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha!”
A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, bereft （被掠夺的）, unwatched, unwept（无人哭泣的）, uncared for, was the body of this man.
Scrooge crept（蹑手蹑脚地走） towards it, trembling（颤抖） as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name, Ebenezer Scrooge. “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.”
Elenezer Scrooge
“Darkness is cheap，and Scrooge liked it.”
He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days（大热天）; and didn’t thaw（使…融化） it one degree at Christmas.
Scrooge’s clerk, Bob Cratchit’s house
a solitary(孤独的)lighthouse
And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared some in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.
The ghost of Old Marley

”The third at last.”
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Shadows of things that have been
“…each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten!”