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珍视爱的光辉
Admire Their Glow(By Michael T. Smith)
I looked at my beautiful Christmas tree and sighed. It was time. The New Year was a week old and my tree still stood in the corner of our room with its collection of memories proudly displayed in a shower of colorful lights. I'd procrastinated long enough.
我望着我的美丽圣诞树叹了口气，是时候该把树收起来了。新年已经过了一个星期，而我的圣诞树依然挺立在我们房间的角落里，在缤纷的彩灯光辉中骄傲地展示着它珍藏其中的种种回忆。(对于收起圣诞树)我已经拖了很长时间了。
I got up, went to the garage and hauled all the boxes into the room. The garland was the first to come down. The tree looked naked already. I took the large ornaments off next. They made a large pile on our bed. An hour later, our bed was covered with Christmas memories. Each pile contained an ornament along with its matching brothers and sisters from sets purchased many years ago.
我起身去了车库，把所有的盒子都拖进了房间。花环首先被摘了下来，圣诞树看上去就显得光秃秃的了，然后我又把大的装饰物拿了下来，它们在我们的床上堆了很大一堆。一小时后，我们的床上堆满了圣诞回忆。每一堆都包含着一件多年前购买的装饰物以及与之相配套的其他装饰品。
I prepared the boxes and carefully placed ornaments in their protective packaging, pausing every few minutes to admire a favorite. “Hey, little Santa!” I held the Santa from my childhood. “Thanks for being my friend for almost fifty years.” He was a little ragged but still gives me a flood of wonderful memories. “Until next year, my dear friend.”
我准备好盒子并把这些装饰物小心地放进包装袋内，每过几分钟就会停下来欣赏一件我最爱的饰品。“嗨，小圣诞老人!”我拿着自童年起就陪伴我的圣诞老人，“谢谢你和我做了将近50年的朋友。”圣诞老人有一点破旧了，但仍然带给我如潮般的美好回忆，“明年再见啦，我亲爱的朋友。”
There was a collection of handmade ones. My children made in their first years of school, more than twenty years ago. Made by tiny hands, they are far from perfect in design, but every year they go on my memory tree – memories of young giggles on Christmas morning and a smiling face when they handed them to me when I came home from work. “Look what we made, Daddy!”
还有许多手工制作的装饰品，是我的孩子们刚上学的头几年制作的，已经是二十多年前的事情了。这些由小手制成的装饰品设计绝非精美，但每年它们都被挂到我的回忆树上，让我忆起圣诞节清早纯真的欢笑，忆起我下班回家他们把这些饰品递给我时微笑的脸庞，“看我们做了什么，爸爸!”
“Oh! It is beautiful. Let's find a special spot on the tree for it.” Every year since, they are displayed.