ICRT Lunchbox --- Too Early for Christmas (太早過聖誕了)

Too Early for Christmas 發佈於 2019-12-19 @ http://bit.ly/2EsZSDN

Narrator: Hey, you hear that? It's almost Christmas! Christmas Day falls on December 25th.
Do you celebrate Christmas? 你們有慶祝聖誕節嗎? I do.
And I like to get started early. I put up my Christmas decorations weeks ago! 很早就佈置好了!
In many countries, people put Christmas decorations put on the outside of their homes.
It looks so beautiful. People hang up Christmas lights,
of course, they also put up many other types of decorations. 會準備很多不一樣的裝飾。

They put up snowmen, for example. These are not made of snow.
They are plastic. 不是用雪做的雪人而是塑膠，!
People fill them with air (sfx: sound of air filling a balloon) so they become big.
You can also see plastic Santa Clauses and reindeer, too.
I really like to walk around and see Christmas decorations on people's houses.

Usually, Americans put up decorations a few weeks before Christmas.
Then, they take them down in early January. But this year, the news reported that some people in the U.S. got in trouble for their Christmas decorations!

Were their decorations were too ugly? 是應為他們的布置品太醜嗎？.
No …Was it because they put too many decorations up? 是準備太多嗎?
No …It was because they put their Christmas decorations up too early. 是太早佈置了!

They put their decorations up November 1st.
Some people thought that was too early and complained about it.
The complainers said the decorations should be taken down, and put up again closer to Christmas.
先拿下來，等聖誕節到了，再放回去!

What do you think? Do you think November 1st is too early to put up Christmas decorations?
Should those people have taken down their decorations, then put them up later again?
That sounds crazy to me.
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# Vocabulary

You can see a lot of Christmas decorations here in Taiwan too.
1. Decoration裝飾，Christmas decoration聖誕節裝飾。
                                      My home decoration cost me a lot of money! 家裡的裝飾花了我好多錢!

2. Put up放上，或是掛起來，take down拿下來。
                      I'm going to put up a Christmas tree in my living room.我要在客廳裡放一棵聖誕樹。
                      We need to take down all those decorations.我們得把那些裝飾都拿下來。

3. Complain抱怨。Stop complaining! 別抱怨了!
                                    Students complained about the heat,學生抱怨太熱，so we bought a fan.所以我們買了一台電扇。

4. Early早，earlier更早。It's still early. I'm going back to sleep.還早，我要再睡一會兒。
                                               You should have told me earlier.你應該早點告訴我的。

Let's review the words.
Decoration裝飾 put up放上 take down拿下來complain抱怨 early早 earlier更早
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# Quiz