Soon after all, the formalities of the gift exchange were met.

毕竟 交换礼物的手续很快就完成了。

For Christmas, New Year's and Boxing Day, an after Christmas gift exchange, public events aren't allowed this year in Sierra Leone.

比如今年塞拉利昂将不再举行圣诞节，新年和礼物节等活动。

So when the transfer was happening -- when Donald Trump and his wife were moving into the White House, there was a gift exchange.

总统交接发生时，特朗普和他的妻子搬进白宫时，你们交换了礼物。

Does anyone here even like the white elephant gift exchange?

这里有人甚至喜欢白象礼物交换吗？

And what's the deal with white elephant gift exchanges?

白象礼物交换是怎么回事？

One bad gift exchange isn't the end of the world, no.

一次糟糕的礼物交换不是世界末日, 不。

So the main plotline of this holiday party was a mystery gift exchange.

所以这次节日派对的主线是一场神秘的礼物交换。

Sociologists and anthropologists have steadied gift exchange for many years.

社会学家和人类学家多年来一直把礼物交换固定下来。

Without any instruction or command, the shooting stopped and German and British soldiers met in no man's land. Photographs were taken and gifts exchanged. It was a Christmas truce.

在没有接到任何指令的情况下，德国和英国士兵突然停止互相开枪，离开自己的战壕，互相握手、交换圣诞礼物。一百年前的今天，成为了值得铭记的" 一战圣诞停火日" 。

Songs sung to the sun god became Christmas carols celebrating Christ's birth after Christianity became the dominant religion in the region, and gifts exchanged in honor of the old god came to honor the new Christian deity.

在基督教成为该地区的主要宗教后，向太阳神唱的歌曲变成了庆祝基督诞生的圣诞颂歌，为纪念旧神而交换的礼物也变成了纪念新的基督教神。