【文章分享】if Santa were salaried... 如果耶誕老人支薪 年薪可賺四百萬

Every Christmas Eve is Santa’s busiest time. Santa Claus does not have an easy job. He not only has to prepare gifts for each of the world’s children, he also needs to deliver them to the kids in a single night. But if we were to actually calculate Santa’s salary, how much would he earn? The latest labor survey announced on an insurance Web site discovered that, if you combined all of his festive activities, from the management and distribution to tasks such as checking off name lists of how good or naughty children have been, altogether Santa should get an annual salary of US$139,924, approximately NT$4.4 million. The Web site explained that Santa’s tasks include managing the reindeer, reading kids’ letters, wrapping presents, keeping a stealthy check on whether children have been good, sweeping chimneys, driving the sleigh, and singing Christmas carols. (Liberty Times, translated by Paul Cooper) 

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1. festive 歡樂的；喜慶的
2. check off 在...上加符號表示已核對
3. naughty 淘氣的
4. reindeer 馴鹿
5. wrap 包
6. stealthy祕密的；鬼鬼祟祟的
7. chimney 煙囪
8. sleigh 雪橇
9. Christmas carols 耶誕歌
10. carol 頌歌，讚美詩