Betting on the fabled "white Christmas" is a pastime in some countries, like Britain, and oddsmakers will increasingly have to factor in global warming's impact, climate researchers said.

气候研究人员称，在英国等一些国家，打赌是否会出现传说中的“白色圣诞”是人们生活中的一大乐趣。博彩公司以后也要越来越重视全球变暖的影响了。

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The economic impact of Christmas is a factor that has grown steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of the world.

圣诞节的经济影响是一个因素，据认为在过去的几个世纪，在世界上许多地区已经稳步地上升了。

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Castaldo added that it did not seem that Leon's song would sell as well as last year's Christmas number one by previous X Factor winner, Leona Lewis.

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Singles by X Factor winners have had a stranglehold on the Christmas charts in recent years - a run which was ended last year when an online anti-X Factor campaign helped get Rage Against the Machine to number one.

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Launched last October in America and Britain, the product has been a tremendous success, outselling by a factor of at least six the 12, 000 sets that Lego thought it would sell in America before Christmas.

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