高中三年级英语(人教版)全一册 Unit 7 Reading

　　E: So what? You'll want all day off tomorrow, I suppose?

　　B: If quite convenient, sir.

　　E: It's not convenient, and it's not fair. I have to pay you a whole day's wages for no work at all.

　　B: It's only Christmas once a year, Mr Scrooge.

　　E: That's a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December! Anyway, I suppose I will have to let you have it. But make sure to be early in the office the day after! Now, who's here? It's my nephew Fred.

　　(A young man comes in.)

　　F: A Merry Christmas, Uncle! God save you!

　　E: Bah! Humbug!

　　F: Christmas a humbug, Uncle? You don't mean that, I'm sure!

　　E: I do. Merry Christmas! What reason do you have to be merry? You are poor enough.

　　F: Well. What reason have you not to be merry? You are rich enough.

　　E: Bah! Humbug!

　　F: Please, Uncle. That's not kind.

　　E: Nephew, you celebrate Christmas in your own way, and let me celebrate it in mine!

　　F: Celebrate it, yes! But you don't celebrate it.

　　E: No. Let me leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! But you must admit that it hasn't, so far! Look how poor you are!

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