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Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会

You may regret dancing around the photocopier with the boss

Workplaces all over the UK are gearing up for the festive period and all the traditions and customs that come with it. But will this Christmas be a cause for happiness and celebration or disappointment and embarrassment?

One way that colleagues in Britain show their appreciation of each other at this time of year is by doing a 'Secret Santa' present giving. Secret Santa is when people who work together buy each other gifts without saying who they are from.

Co-workers all write their name on a piece of paper and then stage a lottery in which each workmate takes another colleague’s name at random. Each person then has to buy a present for the colleague whose name they have picked, usually with an agreed budget set at a small amount of money such as five or ten pounds (50 or 100 Yuan).

As the gifts are given anonymously, the quality of presents can vary greatly; in an internet survey of Secret Santa presents, gifts that people received ranged from tickets to the opera to an air-freshener hanger for a car.

Another common seasonal workplace tradition is the office Christmas party, when workmates put on their most glamorous outfits and take advantage of a plentiful supply of free booze.

While most parties go off without a hitch, sometimes the effects of alcohol cause party-goers to regret their drunken antics.

The BBC invited people to share their most embarrassing Christmas office party stories, and received hundreds of funny stories, such as the man who split his trousers back to front with his extravagant dance moves or the tipsy lady who spent the entire night with back of her dress tucked into her pants and saw the photos that proved it later at work.

But the worst story must surely come from Stuart Vaines, who got so drunk he dunked his boss’s head down the toilet. Unsurprisingly, he was fired the very next day.

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Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会gearing up
张罗着

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会festive period
节庆时期

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会embarrassment
尴尬

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会colleagues
同事

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会co-workers
工友们

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会lottery
六合彩

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会workmate
工友;同事

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会random
随意的

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会budget
预算

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会anonymously
匿名的

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会opera
歌剧

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会air-freshener hanger
吊挂空气清新香水的钩子

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会glamorous outfits
华丽的套装

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会booze
酒水

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会go off without a hitch
顺利无误

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会drunken antics
醉酒后的胡闹行为

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会tipsy
稍有醉意

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会tucked into
塞进

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会dunked
浸入液体(此文意思是把一个人的头按倒马桶的水里)

Culture: Christmas Parties 文化:圣诞聚会fired
解雇


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